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Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: Are we at a fault line?

Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: I wish to share time with Senator Bannon.

Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: I welcome the Minister. I sympathise with him, because not for the first time, he has drawn the short straw. I stated on the Order of Business that the supposed amendment to the motion is a subterfuge. There is no commitment in the programme for Government with regard to the reintroduction of tuition fees. I heard the able Senators Fitzgerald and Ormonde do their best – they are good...

Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: This so-called amendment – which contains many pious platitudes – is a fig leaf that they are flying as a flag of convenience.

Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: Senator Fitzgerald, that feisty fighter, admitted that the Members opposite are riddled with inconsistencies and divisions.

Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: I accept that, in the name of democracy, they tried to put a healthy gloss on it as something we should all accept. Senator Dardis said other things and was full of gravitas—

Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: —but much of what he said is hot air. If I might dwell on the Senator's contribution, it should carry a health warning for all in Fianna Fáil. When the Progressive Democrats have views on matters, they hold them strongly to them. What Fianna Fáil is doing is flawed and the party is going off half-cocked. This is why the amendment is a fig leaf. That other able man from the Progressive...

Seanad: Rural Development Policy: Statements (Resumed). - Third Level Fees: Motion. (21 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: —proceed. When one wants cohesion in Government, this is not the way one initiates the debate. It must be conducted within Government in the first instance and we should not know anything about it. This issue is not being handled properly and that is why the Government's so-called amendment is a fig leaf. This issue has sown much confusion. It is difficult for parents and students and has...

Seanad: Order of Business. (20 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: I formally second Senator O'Toole's proposed amendment to the Order of Business in regard to the schools building programme. I do not know who has been misleading who. I am not making allegations against anybody but there has been a frightful level of misinformation and the matter needs to be cleared up urgently. On a separate matter, will the Leader outline to the House, in so far as she may...

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: I wish to raise with the Leader reports that the State is going to make land available to building developers for the purpose of constructing affordable housing, as well as other possibilities for freeing up land – such as a referendum on property rights – enhanced compulsory purchase orders and a "use it or lose it" clause in planning conditions attaching to grants or permissions. How...

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: Many of us have proposed recently that the State should free up surplus land for local authorities. It should lay down strict conditions as to how local authorities should proceed. I am concerned about this and ask the Leader to arrange an urgent debate with the Minister of State with responsibility for housing. It is important that the matter is discussed. The intention seems good, but I do...

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: The Leader is looking behind her and smiling.

Seanad: Order of Business. (15 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: The Leader has a way with Ministers.

Seanad: Order of Business. (14 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: In regard to the Redundancy Payments Bill, I agree with Senator Ryan's point, specifically because of the situation with the assurances given to the workers of the Comerama plant in County Kilkenny. In regard to the matter raised by Senator Higgins, it would be both discriminatory and anti-rural if what Mr. Hynes proposed in respect of a two-tier pricing system in regard to postal services in...

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill 2003: Second Stage. (14 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: I welcome the Tánaiste to the House with this Bill. I join her in acknowledging the work of the social partners within the redundancy review group. I agree this shows the ability of the social partners to reach consensus, as they have done in the negotiations on the document, Sustaining Progress. The Bill is somewhat like the proverbial curate's egg – it is good in parts. Before I become...

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 4: In subsection (2) to delete "and different days may be appointed for different purposes or different provisions" and substitute "and in any event not later than 1st December, 2003. Gremlins crept into the works at the printers. I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I should explain that I too was somewhat remiss, because I meant that date,...

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: Yes.

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: It has already been corrected to 1 December 2002. I gather that—

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: I cannot change what is contained in the amendment at this time but it may be possible to do so in the other House. There is a principle involved. For that reason I will be pressing the amendment.

Seanad: Redundancy Payments Bill, 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages. (14 May 2003)

Paul Coghlan: I appreciate the Senator's kind offer.