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Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2008)

Eugene Regan: I join Senators Fitzgerald, Harris and others in condemning the killing of Mr. Shane Geoghegan in Limerick, who was an innocent man. There is an attitude of "Good riddance" when people are killed who are involved in inter-gang warfare, and it has not been taken as seriously by the police, the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform or successive Ministers. Deputy Willie O'Dea...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2008)

Eugene Regan: I support the call for a debate on education in which I ask the Minister to address one aspect, namely, the change in the allocation of pupil-teacher ratios in private secondary schools. It seems to me that this is establishing a differential for which the reasons are not given nor the policy explained. Is the Government setting itself against private education? These private secondary...

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: This did not involve public disclosure.

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: Which is what was done.

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: Show the person the door.

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: That example is not germane to the debate.

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: On a point of order, on what subject? We should know the agenda.

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: It is appropriate that we be informed of the item for discussion because this is quite different from the Order of Business.

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: I welcome the Minister of State's outline of the findings of the Morris tribunal reports. I agree with much of what has been said. Mr. Justice Frederick Morris has done extraordinary work in his inquiry into the activities of certain individuals in the Donegal division of the Garda Síochána. The thoroughness of that work and the extensive nature of the reports make for compelling...

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: I am speaking about former Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, and the Minister's statement last year in regard to the former Taoiseach. The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy Dermot Ahern, in respect of the various interim rulings and procedures of the Mahon tribunal, was among those Ministers who called into question the manner in which the chairman of that tribunal was in that...

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: For the Minister, Deputy Dermot Ahern, to politicise this in such a fashion and to attack the two individuals who were to the forefront in highlighting the allegations made, and doing so privately——

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: The Minister of State will have an opportunity to respond in due course. The Minister attacked the two individuals whose taking up of the issues of these allegations resulted in very important improvements in the Garda Síochána in terms of oversight, disciplinary proceedings, procedures, organisation of the command structure and reporting procedures within the Garda Síochána, the Garda...

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: Senator Walsh will have an opportunity to speak in due course.

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: It is entirely inappropriate for the Minister, Deputy Dermot Ahern, to put such a spin on the final report of Mr. Justice Frederick Morris——

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: ——-when the two individuals Deputy Brendan Howlin and former Deputy Jim Higgins, played a starring role in improvements in the Garda Síochána and the standing of the Garda Síochána within the body politic because——

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: ——-confidence in that force and the efficiencies and procedures it follows are fundamental to a functioning democracy. I regret that the Minister, Deputy Dermot Ahern, with respect to the Minister of State, Deputy Conor Lenihan, is not present to deal with this specific issue given he has personalised the debate in this regard. Notwithstanding the furore created by the Minister in regard...

Seanad: Morris Tribunal: Statements (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: It is spin.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: I support the call for a debate on agriculture. The actions taken in the budget in a host of areas cut right through agricultural policy in this country. A number of measures, such as the farm retirement scheme, are fundamental in maintaining and improving efficiency and encouraging the constant process of the modernisation of Irish agriculture. The Irish Farmers Association took a...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: This has added to the time and delay in the conclusion of the tribunal and the cost. The Fianna Fáil-led Government set the legal fees and must take responsibility for the protracted delays and cost of the tribunals. This is the end of the process and there is a picture emerging——

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Eugene Regan: ——of most unsavoury activities.