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Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I will make my point again for the sake of the slow learners. The British Government has embarked on the introduction of a series of tax breaks to encourage investors to engage in fracking in the United Kingdom.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I am not saying Sinn Féin is not against it; what I am saying is that it will not be able to do an awful lot about it. That is the point I am making.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: Sinn Féin is not going to be able to do anything about it.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: The motion talks about a North-South get together on this issue. I wish that was possible, but let us sort out the fracking issue first and then we can talk about whether we can have joined-up thinking on an all-island energy policy. Fracking is the elephant in the room, as Sinn Féin knows. Those who live in my part of the country know that it will create enormous difficulties down...

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: It is just in the normal flow of events that the next speaker should be from this side.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (12 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: Go raibh maith agat. It happens. In fact, unfortunately I have been partially responsible for poor Senator Keane being on the receiving end of interesting decisions from the Chair when I was in it as well. Apologies to her. As my colleague, Senator Thomas Byrne, has outlined, we are supporting this Private Member's motion. There are a number of issues surrounding it that are of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: An Post (12 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I am very grateful to the Chairman. Will An Post explore its relationship with the Irish Postmasters Union, IPU? There seems to have been a breakdown of communications. The word on the street we heard was there is deep distrust in the IPU of An Post. Is there a liaison committee by which the IPU is kept fully informed or is it a case it is met when a new initiative is announced? It would...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: On a point of order, I hope Senator David Norris did not mean to cast a slur on the integrity of the elected members of local authorities.

Seanad: General Scheme of the Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Statements (11 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Seanad: General Scheme of the Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Statements (11 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: It could deprive the House of the Senator's talents.

Seanad: General Scheme of the Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Statements (11 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome the Minister back to the House. He has returned to the House unbowed from his visits prior to the referendum, but I have not been able to figure out his personal views on the future of the Seanad. I mean this as a compliment to his Chinese traits of inscrutability. We are now presented with the heads of a Bill to extend the franchise in Seanad elections. I am bemused by those on...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: On a point of order, while I support almost everything that Senator Heffernan has said, I hardly think one can compare what happened in Germany during the Second World War-----

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I hardly believe-----

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: They were not gassed.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: To compare what happened-----

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: To compare what happened in the Magdalen laundries with the Holocaust and the gassing of 6 million people----

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I just feel that the record should be corrected.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I am sure Senator Heffernan would agree on reflection that one cannot compare the gassing of 6 million people with what happened in the Magdalen laundries, terrible and traumatic and awful as everything he has outlined was, on which I agree 99%.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I share the concern of Senator Darragh O'Brien, leader of the Fianna Fáil group, regarding the lack of legislation, and I take issue with remarks that during the 14 years of Fianna Fáil government we carried on business in much the same way. I refute that as someone who was a Member during that period and during the final three years of the rainbow coalition. I do not have a...

Seanad: County Enterprise Boards (Dissolution) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2014)

Paschal Mooney: This is a Seanad Bill which has been amended by the Dáil. In accordance with Standing Order 118, it is deemed to have passed its First, Second and Third Stages in the Seanad and is placed on the Order Paper for Report Stage. On the question "That the Bill be received for final consideration", the Minister may explain the purpose of the amendments made by the Dáil. This is looked...