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Seanad: Order of Business (30 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: I support the calls made by my colleagues for an urgent debate on agriculture. The agricultural community has faced enormous financial pressures for some time but the measures proposed in the budget, including the removal of the farm installation grant and the farm retirement pension, represent an especially bitter blow to young farmers and their parents. We know of many cases from our...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: I welcome the robust debate we have been having on the economy. We require much more time to deal with all the issues that have been raised by so many of my colleagues. I am taken by the call of my colleagues on the other side of the House for more suggestions, ideas and assistance from the Opposition. This represents a dramatic turnaround over the past 15 to 18 months because, in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: The Cathoirleach is a good man.

Seanad: Report on EU Climate-Energy Package: Statements (16 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: There was a time when the Green Party was a nice, light, pleasant green.

Seanad: Report on EU Climate-Energy Package: Statements (16 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: I hope that we will return to a fuller debate on this topic in the near future. It would be preferable if the debate was to adjourn rather than conclude but that is the order of business as agreed this morning. I welcome the opportunity to speak and I congratulate all those involved in the publication of this report, including my party colleague, Deputy Seán Barrett. It is very much an...

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: I welcome this opportunity to contribute to this debate. I welcome Senator Harris back to the House following his recent illness. I genuinely welcome him back to the state of independence which he had enjoyed up to 12 months ago. That was an outstanding contribution by him; it was fearless, brave and informative. However, regarding his comments concerning the Opposition parties, in...

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: This measure to remove the entitlement of a medical card to all those over the age of 70 might turn out to be the Government's footwear and clothing measure. It will hang around the Government's neck politically and even though a case can be made on pure equality grounds, it will cause administrative chaos and genuine worry and fear among people. We could speak for much longer on this...

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: ——-when former Taoiseach, Deputy Bertie Ahern, and the then Minister for Finance, Charlie McCreevy, boldly proclaimed — probably with some merit — that the reduction in capital gains tax had produced wonders for the economy. We are now seeing a reversal of that, albeit small, at a time when enterprise, initiative and effort need to be rewarded. It is somewhat worrying that taxation...

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: The Deputy was against it then. That is fair enough.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: Why was the Senator against it then?

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: The Senator was against it then.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: Oh right, it was on mature reflection.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: That is helpful.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: I was at school in 1983.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: On a point of order, although it might be wrong of me to interrupt, that cant of Senator Leyden's, which is becoming something of a long playing record, is politically and factually incorrect.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: It is a point of information, at any rate.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: When?

Seanad: Budget Statement 2009: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: Local authorities' budgets have been cut by 5%.

Seanad: Unemployment Levels: Statements (15 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and I am grateful for the opportunity to debate the issue of unemployment and, more important, job creation. It is appropriate that we are taking this debate on the same day as we take statements on the budget because they are very much interlinked. While the focus of yesterday's budget debate was the immediate financial crisis facing the country...

Seanad: Volunteering in Irish Society: Statements (14 Oct 2008)

Paul Bradford: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. This is a topic we understand and support and in which we are all involved to some degree. When I say volunteering should be voluntary, I mean we do not need over-prescription or legislation. Neither do we need a plethora of groups and organisations that prescribe how to be a volunteer. Volunteering and voluntary work should come from the...