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Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I thank Senator Bacik.

Seanad: Public Service Management (Transparency of Boards) Bill 2014: Second Stage (11 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: Like my colleague, Senator Byrne, I welcome Senator Quinn's initiative. I welcome the Minister to the House and I thank him for a very balanced response to Senator Quinn's submission. The Irish Timespublished a survey about a year ago across a variety of interesting questions. I refer to one of the questions which I will paraphrase. It asked the respondents to say in their opinion that...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: Is the amendment being pressed?

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome the Minister for Justice and Equality.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: Amendment No. 1 has been tabled in the names of Senators Cullinane, Reilly and Ó Clochartaigh.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: To add to Senator Noone's comments, in any diet the first "no no" is ice cream.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I support Senator MacSharry's amendment. I am not at all reassured by Senator Coghlan's comments. It seems like a wolf in sheep's clothing to talk about taking it easy. There is nothing easy about what has happened recently. The simple fact is that the Committee of Selection of this House nominated two people. By his intervention yesterday, the Taoiseach has now undermined the entire...

Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (10 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I, too, welcome the Minister of State and thank him for his very comprehensive explanation of what is a very complex Bill. Having listened to Senator Cullinane, the thought struck me that parts of the Bill are geared very much to business. I tried to search for the elements that would protect the worker associated with the company. I am sure the Minister of State will take the opportunity...

Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (10 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: There used to be a rat poison called DAC at one time.

Seanad: Companies Bill 2012: Second Stage (10 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Seán Sherlock.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: None whatsoever.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: Under the terms of reference of the banking inquiry, it has none.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome the appointment of a new US ambassador to Ireland. I hope this will accelerate progress on the ongoing issue of immigration reform in the United States now that we will have somebody in place in the Phoenix Park who will be able to act as a conduit not only for the Government but also the wider Irish public. This is an issue that may seem to be under the radar, but it is just as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land (Resumed): European Commission (5 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I come from the north west, the Border region of County Leitrim. As there are representatives from a number of directorates, including environment, climate and agriculture, I want to put a question to the relevant official on the evolving European position on hydraulic fracturing or fracking. The main concern being expressed in my locality is that the Government may award mining licences....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maximising the Usage and Potential of Land (Resumed): European Commission (5 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: That is the context, the impact of fracking on agriculture.

Seanad: Racism in Ireland: Motion (4 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I also thank the Minister of State for her very kind remarks.

Seanad: Racism in Ireland: Motion (4 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: We Irish should be the least racist people in the world, primarily because of our huge diaspora and because of our culture, going back over hundreds of years and sadly right up to the present day, of exporting our people. In America, some 40 million people claim to be Irish and some 60 million or 70 million Irish people - it is a phenomenal figure - have settled worldwide. I, too, was among...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (4 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I was not criticising the Labour Party's leadership process at all.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (4 Jun 2014)

Paschal Mooney: The Senator should not use me as a platform for-----