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Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I welcome the Cathaoirleach's reiteration of his previous ruling regarding the independence of the tribunal and the tacit expression of ongoing support for its work. It is the responsibility of other Members of the House to respect that ruling on a regular basis.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: We are considering the matter in the widest sense. We are not taking a narrow view.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: We are talking about the wider use of pharmacies

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: The Senator is only speaking politically.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I wish to be associated with the opinions of Senators Fitzgerald and Norris regarding the horrendous incident in Dublin last night involving the two Polish nationals and which has resulted in the death of one man and the serious injury of the other. Everyone in this House will have similar opinions as regards the nature of that attack and the fact that it should not happen at all in this...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I have possible suggestions. The Defamation Bill is coming back to this House next week and I may speak to that in this regard——

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: With regard to Senator Buttimer's contribution the fact the nurses and midwives Bill is also due to be discussed in the House might be another pretext. While I am greatly honoured——

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: ——that my opinions are so highly valued by fellow Senators——

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I wish to put on the record the context of what I said because it could be easily dealt with here rather than in a subsequent debate. In the course of a radio interview yesterday, I expressed an opinion that the holder of political office, having expressed the fact that they will not hold that office in the near future, will, in the first instance decide for themselves and second, decide...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I also went on to express the opinion that ——

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I also went on to express the opinion that my own role and that of my party is not to decide who should be the leader of another political party.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: It is a principle——

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: ——I would recommend to members of other parties in this House and other Members of this House. I would have strong opinions——

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I was of the opinion that the abilities of leaders of other political parties would not fit in with my own template of what a political party should do.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: I recognise that——

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: —— having decided upon who their leader should be, that is not a process into which I intend to interfere on either of their parts.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (Resumed). (21 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: In politics the human issues are always the most difficult to deal with and to govern on. It is easy in Opposition to oppose. It becomes more difficult in Government to come up with appropriate decisions. Recent Irish political history involving all Governments and political persuasions in the make-up of those Governments has seen a raft of measures on issues that were inappropriately...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (Resumed). (21 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: In saying that, we have a collective responsibility in addressing it.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (Resumed). (21 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: It ill behoves the Opposition to point fingers and name-call on an issue such as this. It is difficult enough to deal with the issue without having a common approach on it. I would go even further and say that what has been a departmental-led approach in all these issues to resort to the courts system to delay what were necessary social improvements in many of these areas has not been a...

Seanad: Special Educational Needs: Statements (Resumed). (21 Feb 2008)

Dan Boyle: Most of the public disquiet about the recent case arose because while the Government did not ask the Ó Cuanacháins to pay the State's legal costs as well, which a court decision would have allowed it to do, the fact that the Ó Cuanacháins' side of those costs alone cost approximately €2 million says something about the cost of judicial action in the first instance. On the need for...