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- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: I want to ask the Leader a very important question.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: I welcome the briefings that are taking place as part of the current process. I agree with Senator O'Toole in respect of the need to front-load the budget in the interests of conveying certainty and restoring confidence. In that context, I would welcome it if the officials from the Department of Finance made all of the relevant information available to the Opposition. Everyone wants to be...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: No, that amendment refers to a matter relating to health.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: I am referring to the budgetary position.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: Senator Fitzgerald's amendment relates to the health budget. I am referring to the overall budgetary position. It would not be possible to hold the debate I am seeking today. I ask that the Leader give a commitment to making time available for a debate on the budgetary position when the process to which I refer, and which may be ongoing for some time, has reached a more definitive point.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: We will save a little for next year.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: No one should be surprised by Fine Gael's and Deputy Kenny's response to the situation in which we find ourselves. I had been saying for some time that my party would respond positively and constructively. However, there was something peculiar, to say the least, about the fact that the leader of the minor party in government had taken it upon himself to write on his party's stationery,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: I am pleased that the right course has now been taken in that the Taoiseach, however reluctant, has written to Opposition leaders inviting them to take part in talks. Of course, we are going to engage in them. It reminds me of Liam Cosgrave's-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: I am coming to it, a Chathaoirligh, as ever. It reminds me of Mr. Liam Cosgrave's closing line last night in the Mansion House when launching Mr. David McCullagh's book on his predecessor, Mr. John A. Costello, that his greatest achievement as Taoiseach was that he had made reluctant democrats of the Opposition, of Fianna Fáil.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: Hold on.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: I am coming to it. The position is that at the time Fianna Fáil was known as the "slightly constitutional party". As Mr. Cosgrave said, he could have done no more and the country deserved no less.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (14 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: Therefore, in dealing with the current situation the party which has always put the country first will be true to first principles and basic beliefs.
- Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: We must create employment for them.
- Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: I thought I would get a few minutes to speak.
- Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: We will give the Minister of State some more. We know his heart is in the right place.
- Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: Some civil servants need to know it is about that.
- Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: The Minister must also have the power to redeploy people where necessary.
- Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: The Senator has one minute remaining.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)
Paul Coghlan: Some are more equal than others.