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Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: What about the timetabling of Bills?

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: We will not get through it all. The Leader is not intending to do it all.

Seanad: Water Services: Motion (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: I welcome the Minister of State and wish him well. He took us by surprise with his recent announcement. Members of this House have always known him to be a decent and honourable man. I wish him very well and I admire him for his decency. As previous speakers indicated, this is an important motion. There is no doubt that the pipes by means of which water is supplied to homes, businesses...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: There is a great one in the south west as well.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: Senator Walsh was right.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: Following from what many colleagues have said I ask the Leader to confirm and outline in his response the way he sees the sittings of this House continuing in this session. Will the House sit on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays? Will it sit on a Friday? What Bills does he envisage the House will deal with? Is it the Leader's understanding, as has been stated here, that this House will...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: No. I am coming to a question, a Chathaoirligh, and I beg your indulgence in that regard. Your forbearance is always very much appreciated.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: You know me.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: Brevity is my middle name.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: I am coming to that. The Cathaoirleach is putting me off my drift.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: I have always believed that Dr. Michael Somers was right in his view on not placing deposits with Anglo Irish Bank. We all had our own views, and perhaps we did not express them to a great extent, and we may have made mistakes in investing in other financial institutions but some of us never went near Anglo Irish Bank. In any event, I always believed that Dr. Michael Somers was correct. A...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: -----but it is not necessary. I ask the Leader to refer to that when replying. I support the calls for a debate on the Hunt report. It is an important document and I would like to hear the Leader give a commitment on that also.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jan 2011)

Paul Coghlan: Absolutely.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: Next February.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: I wish to be associated with the words of appreciation extended to the Cathaoirleach and all of the staff. I welcome the transfer of major files, following two years of exhaustive investigation into the circular transfer of funds between some of our financial institutions. It is hoped we will now see the fruits of this work, particularly regarding the transfer in 2008 of approximately €7.2...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: The Cathaoirleach knows as well as I do that he is the man who tells the Irish nation and would tell the world if he could get away with it that we never employ the guillotine in this House. For a while early in his career it was true-----

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: -----but look at what he has done to us this week. He is bringing the House into disrepute.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: Perhaps the Leader will respond because he must return to the way we should do business.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: Our best graduates.

Seanad: Credit Institutions (Stabilisation) Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2010)

Paul Coghlan: Double jobbing.