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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Long Wave Radio Transmission: RTE (15 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome the representatives from RTE. I should declare my interest. I know it is stating the obvious, but I spent all of my broadcasting career i the public service. I have a very strong empathy with RTE. I know most of their representatives here. It does not give me any great pleasure to be in a situation where I am effectively attempting to reflect and respond to what the Chairman...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Transport Council Meeting Briefing: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (15 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: There have a been huge number of representations on this issue down through the years. It is a major issue. I am aware the Minister is inheriting it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Transport Council Meeting Briefing: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (15 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I would like to pick up on what Senator Eamonn Coghlan had to say. I missed the beginning of it, unfortunately, because I had to take a phone call. The first of my two questions relates to sports capital grants. I commend the Minister of State, Deputy Ring, on the manner in which he has dispersed these grants since they were reintroduced. I welcomed the Government's decision to...

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I wish to share my time with Senator Power.

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: We all welcome the upturn in the economy and it would be churlish not to recognise and acknowledge that there has been an improvement. There has been a great deal of talk about our improving economic situation and I would suggest that much of that improvement is down to increased competitiveness but also to our exchange rate, in the context of a flagging eurozone economy and a global...

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: The suggestion is that we should be cheering the Government because there have been no further reductions in social benefits.

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I would also suggest that the increase in child benefit does not target the less well-off. The increase is right across the board so wealthy children will get €5 as well as those children who are less well off. That is problematic but has been trumpeted as something wonderful.

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I plead for the defence of the Chair. I never opened my mouth while Senator Hayden was babbling on with her Government-supplied script.

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: The Government missed an opportunity here and should have introduced a second free year in the early childhood care and education scheme. I understand various disability groups have criticised the Government for not providing anything like what is required to enable those with disabilities to live their lives with dignity, and that is another missed opportunity. There has been a decrease in...

Seanad: Budget 2015: Statements (14 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: This budget has been all about headlines which the Government is throwing out to an unsuspecting public, saying "Look at us, aren't we doing a wonderful job? Vote us back into office at the next election". As my party spokesperson said in the Dáil, this is as much a vote catching exercise as it is about responsible budgetary mechanisms. I am disappointed, overall, that there has not...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I join my colleagues in wishing Senator Craughwell well and I congratulate him. Senator O'Sullivan summed it up very well in that at the outset of this campaign, the general public and certainly those of us in the political system would have seen Senator Craughwell's nomination and subsequent election bid as a token gesture because of the precedence set down through the years of...

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I thank my colleague, Senator Ó Domhnaill, for sharing his time and I echo his welcoming comments to the Minister, Deputy Humphreys. It is my first opportunity to welcome her to the House and wish her well. I should also put on record the outstanding contribution of her predecessor and former Minister, Deputy Deenihan, to the arts over the past while. I am somewhat saddened that in...

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I am saddened because if I used the research service, I could find out that former Fine Gael and Labour Party coalitions did exactly the same. I have put it on record in the past and Senator Ó Domhnaill has said it again.

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: The Senator can come up with all the facts he wants but we would only throw it back at you. What would that achieve? It achieves nothing.

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: Senator Ó Domhnaill is right, as every Government from the foundation of the State and the creation of State boards has done exactly the same. The Senator is correct that the practice is wrong. I am glad this Government has been forced by public opinion to change the system, although not of its own volition. Public opinion led to the change of the corrupt system, and that is why we...

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I will end with a quote.

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: On 26 October 1963 at Amherst College, President John F. Kennedy stated that he looked forward to a country which would reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft, which would steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment-----

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: -----and which would steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all our citizens.

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: He continued "And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well."

Seanad: Arts and Culture Sector: Motion (8 Oct 2014)

Paschal Mooney: A month later, he was dead.