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

Eamonn Coghlan: Most of the issues I was going to raise have been dealt with, but for the sake of making a contribution I will ask a question. Having listened to the various submissions yesterday and today things are still do not add up. I began to think of this event as a movie, "Licensed to Sing", and unfortunately we have an Irish solution to an Irish problem. Everybody is screwed in this, including...

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

Eamonn Coghlan: I am sure-----

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

Eamonn Coghlan: That is fair enough. I certainly know the five concerts caught the imagination of the music industry throughout the world unlike any other concerts in the entire history of the music industry. Dublin City Council stated its decision was appropriate, balanced and reasonable. Based on the various submissions I am beginning to think the outcome is inappropriate, unbalanced and certainly...

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

Eamonn Coghlan: The boat left the United States. Where is it now?

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

Eamonn Coghlan: Is there any way we can finish the movie "Licensed to Sing" by saving the concerts? Garth Brooks said five or nothing.

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

Eamonn Coghlan: The point is whether we can save all five concerts.

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

Eamonn Coghlan: Can we get someone to pull the switch?

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

Eamonn Coghlan: Let us create an Irish solution to this problem and let us try to flick the switch.

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

Eamonn Coghlan: It would be a huge good news story for Ireland.

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

Eamonn Coghlan: I am on my way.

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

Eamonn Coghlan: If it is not too late would Garth Brooks change his mind? Based on the evidence which has come through from the people in the community whom we know did not make objections surely at this stage, at the 11th hour, we can have a great ending to this saga. It would be amazing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Concert Licensing: Dublin City Council (15 Jul 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: I welcome the representatives from Dublin City Council. This whole sequence of events going back to January has been a farce. I note the media this morning stated Mr. Garth Brooks is now blaming the rules as the reason he is not coming to Ireland. I know if he were driving across Interstate 40 in Oklahoma, doing 80 mph, and was pulled in by the cops, he would certainly appreciate the rules...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: Further to Senator Barrett's comments, last year was the celebration of The Gathering and this year is the Garthering, or the disjointed. What is happening at present is a shambles. I have been trying to figure out whether this is democracy at its best or if democracy is getting in the way. I have been thinking about it a lot over the last 24 hours and I can see the movie being called...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: ----- I urge the Leader to ensure that whoever negotiates on behalf of the Government, whether the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport or somebody else, it is time to sort out these licensing laws. All of these contracts can be called into question and many laws will surround them. In addition to sorting out the licensing law, we must also address the root of the problem, namely, the...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Jul 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: Following on from what Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell said and her welcome for Mr. James Kirwan, it is apropos that he is here today. I also welcome the Cabinet's signing off on the blueprint for the new national paediatric hospital, and I emphasise that is a paediatric hospital. I understand that the next phase is to select the design team with construction to commence in the spring of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (2 Jul 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: Coming back to the advertising of various bundles and packages, the corporate cable does not facilitate the delivery promised in advertising. Should there be some form of an asterisk on the advertising, whereby it is subject to the line going into the house as opposed to people getting sucked in and signing up with no comeback?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (2 Jul 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: I welcome the Minister. We all welcome the fibre-optic service coming into the country. For me it certainly is not fast enough at 0.8 MB per second. Companies such as Sky and Eircom advertise bundles, incorporating television, telephone, mobile phone and high-speed broadband for a particular price. People get excited when they see an offer of a 70 MB, or whatever it is, to download...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Luas Cross City Line and Future of Public Transport in Dublin: National Transport Authority (25 Jun 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: Have there been any archaeological findings that have been worth anything?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Luas Cross City Line and Future of Public Transport in Dublin: National Transport Authority (25 Jun 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: I welcome Mr. Murphy and Mr. Creegan and thank them for enlightening us on what is happening in the Dublin transport network and around the rest of Ireland. It is long overdue and there is an exciting future, particularly in Dublin. I have a question on the 25 cellars that have been filled in. How have they been filled in? Is compensation due to the owners of premises whose cellars have...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2014)

Eamonn Coghlan: I know that the issue of obesity has been in the news. My colleague, Senator Noone, referred to it yesterday when she called for the allocation of 30 minutes each day for physical education in schools. There is more attention in the media and in the public domain on obesity, overweight and physical literacy but nobody seems to know how to do it nor if there is the political will to change...