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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Mobile Telephone Coverage and High Speed Broadband Availability: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: I will approach this from both a personal and a professional perspective, professional because of the representations I get regularly from people. I have done a test on the upload and download speeds. The upload is 25 Mb, the download is 5.3 Mb and the ping is 116. I would like the delegates to explain what that really means. We talk about frustration but, to put it really mildly, people...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: Senator Moran referenced the young mother and two children held and terrorised in their home in Dundalk. Perhaps that trauma will be with them for the rest of their lives. This is the second such incident in that area in recent days but similar problems occur every day of the week in this country. In my area last week, we held a meeting with representatives of An Garda Síochána,...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: National Children's Hospital Location (6 Nov 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: Yes. It will not receive planning permission at the same time, and it may be a long time before they will even consider a maternity hospital there.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: National Children's Hospital Location (6 Nov 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: I want to address something which I have raised here in the Seanad on a number of occasions. Before I put the question to the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, I want to put on record that I have been very much involved with the Children's Medical and Research Foundation in Crumlin for 29 years, being on the board in the United States as a volunteer and also as an employee, as...

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

Eamonn Coghlan: I welcome the Minister. Coming from a background in sport it would be appropriate for me to raise the issue of sport as the transport issues have been raised. It is welcome that funding for sport has been maintained this year. We look forward and welcome the new legislation, Sport Ireland Bill 2014 to merge the Irish Sports Council and the National Sports Campus Development Authority. We...

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

Eamonn Coghlan: I welcome the Minister to the House. It is an honour and a pleasure for me to respond to the motion before the House today. Senator O'Brien should note that there are different strokes for different folks and ---

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

Eamonn Coghlan: I think Senator O'Brien is trying to pull a stroke here. I had intended to speak to the motion before us but seeing as Senator Daly referred to the number of appointees, I would like to put on record that during Fianna Fáil's 14 years in government, it appointed more than 200 people to the boards of cultural institutions without any advertising or use of the Public Appointments Service....

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

Eamonn Coghlan: --- Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, Colin Farrell, Saoirse Ronan, U2, Daniel Day Lewis, Riverdance, the Chieftains, the Blarney stone, the Cliffs of Moher are all world famous. Our sports people are also artists in their own way. When one sees Rory McIlroy striking a golf ball on the international stage one must admit that is an art too. Irish culture and art is respected all over the world. I...

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

Eamonn Coghlan: --- of those I mentioned earlier, as well as artists like Brian O'Doherty, Sean Scully and Dorothy Cross and the world-renowned film maker James Coleman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Mobile Telephone Coverage and High Speed Broadband Availability: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: I apologise for having to leave the meeting but I had to vote on some important issues in the Seanad. The issue I wish to raise has been alluded to in some of the responses so far. I live on the west side, just outside the Phoenix Park, and there are days when I have to go outside just to answer my mobile phone, whereas my son is able to answer his phone in the house because he uses a...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Oct 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: Senator Byrne is no longer in this Chamber but I was amused by his remarks relating to strokes.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Oct 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: No strokes were pulled. Last night the Taoiseach recommended that Deputies and Senators accede to the wish of Mr. McNulty that we do not vote for him in the forthcoming Seanad by-election. The only stroke pulled here today is the sticking of a poker in the fire to fuel it. There is so much good news in the media at the moment that Senator Byrne is trying to take attention away from this....

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (2 Oct 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: I want to discuss the issue of State boards. Last week the development board of the national paediatric hospital appointed a new design team from BDT, a world-renowned firm of architects. The Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, said this is a milestone for the hospital, which is proceeding full steam ahead. We expect planning permission will go through during the summer of 2015 and...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: I am somewhat bemused by the debate over the debacle of the nomination of Mr. McNulty to the Seanad by An Taoiseach.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: The Senator knows what I mean.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: I was fortunate to be one of the Taoiseach's nominees. After a number of months I decided I wanted to join the Fine Gael Party because I believed in our leader, Enda Kenny, I believed we were going through extremely tough times and I believed that the Taoiseach and Fine Gael, in co-operation with the Labour Party, were going to rebuild Ireland and rebuild the economy. Throughout the lovely...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: Yes. In my short experience here, politics is all about pulling strokes, and this is a stroke by the Opposition to try to bring down the Government-----

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: Why was this person named and why was he appointed to IMMA only ten days beforehand? Had he not been appointed, I do not think this would have emerged in the media or even in the House today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Dublin Bus: Chairman Designate (23 Sep 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: Mr. Courtney is very welcome. It would be remiss of me not to comment by way of asking a question but Senators have already made reference to what I had intended to say. The only association I had with Dublin Bus was jumping on the 23 bus to go down to the Phoenix Park for a run or hitching a lift when I was injured on the way back from Palmerstown. People would ask me about the mindset...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: GAA and Aiken Promotions (16 Jul 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: This joint committee meeting could be the end of the saga or it could be the beginning of the future of licensing laws in Ireland. After all the submissions we have heard, including on various bogus objections, even the residents within the greater area of 1,500 m of Croke Park have now changed their beliefs in this regard. If we as a committee are to achieve something, I suggest we call on...