Results 21-40 of 445 for speaker:Eoghan Harris

Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (23 Mar 2011)

Eoghan Harris: I second the motion. I reserve my right to speak after the other Independent Senators have spoken in order that we might benefit from their accumulated wisdom.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2011)

Eoghan Harris: I will not take part in the kind of "ho-ho" stuff going on here. I would welcome, endorse and wish the new Government a fair wind if it was a brave Government, be it a minority Government or one governing on a knife's edge. However, a Government with a majority that large is asymmetrical and holds in itself the seeds of its own dissolution. The Oireachtas has one task in hand, namely, the...

Seanad: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Mar 2011)

Eoghan Harris: I thank Senator Quinn for his work. I reiterate what Senator Bradford said earlier, that the Oireachtas should be introducing legislation rather than the Government doing so. We have long passed the stage in western Europe where parties should be fighting over ideological questions, rather than dealing with the empirical stuff that has to be done. It is there before us and there is a broad...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Report and Final Stages (29 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: I was one of the strongest supporters of the civil partnership Bill, so much so I was put up on one website as Gay-Friendly Senator of the Year. While I would like to say I unequivocally support this recommendation, to do so would be hypocritical. I resent the way this Bill has been rushed through this House. It is not the Minister's fault but of those who chivvied and worked up a big...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Report and Final Stages (29 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: The responsibility for rushing this legislation largely resides with the Labour Party. It postures as the progressive friend of the gay community and yet allows a Bill like this to be rushed through with various rights steamrolled over. Shame on the Labour Party. Shame on them. As it behaves now, so it will behave in any future Government. If Fine Gael finds itself in government with the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed). (29 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Well said.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: I welcome the change in the universal social charge. Fortunately, I do not have to go for election and therefore I can speak for a group that does not have a big populist push behind it. I refer to sole traders. The reduction for medical card holders is reasonable but the increased 10% for the self-employed and sole traders on incomes over €100,000 is unfair because they are the group...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: I thank Senator Quinn for sharing time and welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Áine Brady. In common with Senator Quinn, I also wish to register the extraordinary extempore performance of the Minister for Finance at the outset of this debate and to ask myself rhetorically whether Fianna Fáil has not made a dreadful mistake. That said, having acknowledged the Minister's extraordinary...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Some of them were more forgettable than others.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: If one can get it from Moscow one will get it from Europe.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011: Second Stage (28 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Of necessity, any question I ask the Leader has to be rhetorical since his ability to do anything about any question I ask is limited. Is he happy with the way we are doing business on the Finance Bill? I think I know the answer. I am of an age and I am around long enough not to care about anything much except authority. Confucius said the things that mattered in a state were an army, food...