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Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: That is quite right.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: We are speaking about housing tonight.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: I agree with everything my colleagues have said but I wish to make some additional points. The Minister of State should consider abolishing the homelessness agency. I suspect what I am going to say is not a million miles from his own thinking on this matter, if he were allowed to admit it honestly. I have always admired his straight talking in Opposition. Three years ago, when the report on...

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Report on Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion. - Local Authority Funding: Motion. (10 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear. Amendment put. The Seanad divided: Tá, 26; Níl, 19. Tá Bohan, Eddie. Brady, Cyprian. Brennan, Michael. Callanan, Peter. Cox, Margaret. Dardis, John. Dooley, Timmy. Fitzgerald, Liam. Glynn, Camillus. Kenneally, Brendan. Kitt, Michael P. Leyden, Terry. MacSharry, Marc. Mansergh, Martin. Mooney, Paschal C. Morrissey, Tom. Moylan, Pat. O'Brien, Francis. Ó Murchú, Labhrás....

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: On the Order of Business proposed by the Deputy Leader of the House, we are in agreement that all Stages of Nos. 4 and 5 will be taken today. However, this should not be considered a precedent. We appreciate that these are important pieces of legislation that need to go through the House by the conclusion of business. However, the Fine Gael Party will move some amendments to both Bills and we...

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: We are an endangered species.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: That is a good one coming from the Government side—

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: —given its Members' dual position on community employment.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: The Department of Foreign Affairs is going to Boyle, is it not?

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: Can we have some protection from the Roscommon assassin?

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: When will this soliloquy end?

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: I thought it was international.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: If the Senator sends us a letter, we will send him one back.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: I will name him on behalf of the Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: We are always talking about people.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: Maybe we will invite the Minister back to the House.

Seanad: Independent Monitoring Commission Bill 2003: Second Stage. (9 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: Fine Gael supports the Independent Monitoring Commission Bill. We have tabled some technical amendments to the Bill, which we can go through on Committee and Report Stages. I understand the importance of this legislation, which was needed in 1998, not 2003. If we had the kind of role and scope that is now being put in place in the Bill then, whereby an independent commission could adjudicate...

Seanad: Independent Monitoring Commission Bill 2003: Second Stage. (9 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: Exactly.

Seanad: Independent Monitoring Commission Bill 2003: Second Stage. (9 Dec 2003)

Brian Hayes: Hear, hear.