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- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: I must say that the hem of the Leaders' diplomatic skirt is slipping.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: I am addressing the Leader.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: I am saddened and disappointed because the Leader is capable of so much more and better. He is totally departing from the standard he set and upheld in a previous Seanad whereby, to my recollection, we never took all Stages of a Bill on one day.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: I support Senator Fitzgerald and other speakers on that matter and I look forward to the Leader's response. It is a shocking practice and we should not be doing it. I am surprised at the Leader.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: Other speakers referred to the 25% cuts that have been arbitrarily imposed on small pharmacies. The Leader should ask the Minister for Health and Children to talk to the Irish Pharmaceutical Union. An independent body recommended that these matters should be dealt with on a phased basis. There was a recommendation that they should get away from branded medicines and deal with generic...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: One should not draw attention to any Member's absence.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: It is only occasional.
- Seanad: Enforcement of Court Orders (Amendment) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (7 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: I am taken by the arguments made by my colleagues, Senators Regan, Alex White and Bacik. I would have thought it was fundamental in a democracy such as ours that we would pay all due credence to the prompts, guidance and judgments of bodies such as those mentioned in this instance, namely, the Irish Bankers Federation and the free legal advice centres, FLAC. As Senator Bacik said, this is...
- Seanad: Local Government (Charges) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: Given the Minister's fair mindedness, he must see this is absolutely ludicrous. As Senators have stated, it is against good State social policy. Effectively it concerns the same house. I do not want to be repetitive but these are people who are doing the State a favour. This must cut against everything the Minister believes in. I salute his fair mindedness and, in common with my...
- Seanad: Local Government (Charges) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: Senator Maurice Cummins has made an important and relevant point. Everybody-----
- Seanad: Local Government (Charges) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: Where a person is in a nursing home, perhaps suffering from dementia, and has a large family, the family is not in a position to do anything about the house. Nobody can touch it. The parent is in a nursing home as a result of ill health or mental infirmity. It is ludicrous to expect that person to make a payment annually to the local authority. I echo Senator Maurice Cummins's appeal that...
- Seanad: Local Government (Charges) Bill 2009: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: We should hear the Minister's response.
- Seanad: Unemployment: Motion (1 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: The Senator is running out of time but the Leas-Chathaoirleach is generous.
- Seanad: Unemployment: Motion (1 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: I welcome the motion and the amendment and I welcome the Minister of State to the House for the debate. Holding jobs in the appalling circumstances we are in is vital. We need a suite of measures such as this amendment recommends and PRSI breaks to enable employers to keep employees and increase their numbers. The amendment is timely. Several tourism interests have been in contact with me...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: The expenditure review committee under the chairmanship of Dr. Colm McCarthy has concluded its work and a report exists. Amazingly, the latter's delivery to the Government is to be postponed. Further, the Government will not consider it until some indefinite time in the future, presumably after Ministers have read it whenever they get it. Are there divisions and disagreements within the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: -----and what has been stated about the report since the various leaks. It appears the report will not be published before the autumn at the earliest. Perhaps there are tactical considerations, although I am not aware of them, but the Lisbon treaty has been mentioned and, as Senator O'Toole and others have stated, it is important that we get an early opportunity to discuss the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Jul 2009)
Paul Coghlan: The Leader is talking through his hat.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)
Paul Coghlan: I second the amendment proposed by Senator Twomey to the Order of Business. Despite the dire straits in which we find ourselves and all the disagreements which have been mentioned, it is good to know that in the national interest, the IMF welcomes the concept and the model of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA. As we all know, the orderly restructuring of the financial sector is...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)
Paul Coghlan: The case is over but there will be probably be an appeal.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2009)
Paul Coghlan: The Senator is reverting to type.