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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: Irish Postmasters Union (26 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: The inference from all of that is that post offices needed to diversify in the context of the services they provide. Despite the business relating to social welfare payments - on which the network has been over-reliant - closures were still occurring. This illustrates that even from the mid-part of the previous decade there was a need for An Post to provide a more broadly based and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: Irish Postmasters Union (26 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: What choices are provided by the Department of Social Protection?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: Irish Postmasters Union (26 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: The Department has indicated that the electronic transfer system does not give rise to costs. A figure of €60 million was cited. The Department states it would not cost anything if everybody used the electronic payments system through the banks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: Irish Postmasters Union (26 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: That would require customers to have a post office bank account.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: Irish Postmasters Union (26 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: With respect, it cannot do so without a full banking system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: Irish Postmasters Union (26 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: There was a suggestion of an additional cost of €60 million per year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sustainability of Post Office Network: Irish Postmasters Union (26 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome the delegation and thank them for their presentation. I had the opportunity of listening to them last week as well at the briefing in Buswells Hotel. I agree with most of the contribution made by my colleague Deputy Colreavy. As I also come from County Leitrim, I am fully aware of the social importance of the continuing viability of the post office network. It is interesting...

Seanad: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Second Stage (20 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Second Stage (20 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: The Senator should conclude.

Seanad: ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013: Second Stage (20 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: The Senator is at least two minutes over time.

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Industry: Statements (19 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I welcome the Minister of State. Many of the issues to which I wish to refer have already been raised. Even the most cursory reading of the correspondence circulated to Members - I am not sure if it was circulated to those on all sides - gives rise to very serious questions regarding the status and ongoing governance of the various boards with responsibility in this area. One of the...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by the Pope: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: As a co-signatory of the motion, I wish to express my solidarity with my colleagues on all sides of the House. I will not go into a very long discourse on the merits or otherwise of having Pope Francis visit this Chamber and, by extension, visiting Ireland. However, it is important that we express an opinion. The fact that this motion is before the House and that the Seanad is passing a...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: The Fianna Fáil group welcomes the decision by the Minister for Justice and Equality to set up an independent review. The Fianna Fáil Party called for this at the very outset of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission bugging controversy. I believe it is only right and proper that the matter should be taken out of the political arena and the truth be verified. Yesterday...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: Can one image the chaos that will arise from this increased footfall? The most vulnerable in society, the infirm, the disabled and the elderly will join the already lengthening queues. This is an outrage. I request the Minister for Social Protection to come to this House today to clarify the relationship of her Department with An Post. This is about the future of thousand of jobs...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I propose the following amendment: that the Minister for Social Protection comes before the House today to clarify the relationship between her Department and An Post on the cashing of social welfare cheques and on the future viability of the post office network.

Seanad: Free Speech, Homophobia and the role of the State Broadcaster: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: Why not test it again?

Seanad: Free Speech, Homophobia and the role of the State Broadcaster: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: Finally, Mr. Brophy indicated that "It should also be noted that these negotiations were ongoing at a time when John Waters was being subjected to the most outrageous level of online abuse and adverse commentary." I place these quotes on record because it appears that only those on one side of the argument seem to have been offended. There are, however, two sides to this story. I fully...

Seanad: Free Speech, Homophobia and the role of the State Broadcaster: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: How does the Senator think I, as someone who is not in favour of abortion on demand, felt?

Seanad: Free Speech, Homophobia and the role of the State Broadcaster: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2014)

Paschal Mooney: I understand how people who are gay, lesbian or transgender feel when they are placed in an invidious position. At the same time, however, I have sympathy with those who are accused on live television of being something which plainly they are not.