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Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: It is significant that all of us on the Independent side, ranging from the left to the centre to the right, are agreed that it is a squalid spectacle. The Bill should have gone through properly.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: It should have gone through properly for the sake of the people. I warn the incoming Government to calm down those who are dizzy with success because it is in a state of semi-hysteria. We are going to have some kind of rainbow Government. What is their panic if the panic produces the kind of political meltdown that allows the armed doctrine to dominate the Opposition in the coming Dáil....

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2011)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I ask the Leader to convey to his party that it should consider the difference between the verb "Is" and the verb "Tá", the former being a permanent position and the latter being a contingent condition. People put up with minor corruption when an economy is booming but the smallest bonus in the public sector arouses major public anger. Everything must be considered in context now. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Eoghan Harris: If Fine Gael wants to fix this and to do itself some good at the polls, Fine Gael and the Labour Party should give an undertaking that they will not carry out these practices when they are in government.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2010)

Eoghan Harris: That is good. Then the Leader has some pressure on him. I endorse the remarks of Senator Norris about taking the European Court of Human Rights issue out of the public domain coming up to a general election. It is bad news all round. There should be general agreement to park this away from a general election. Senator O'Toole is correct in his point about this being an endorsement of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Long before the recession began the media continually made all of the progressive and reform movements and politicians responded. We bring politics into disrepute by speaking every day about last night's "Prime Time Investigates" or last week's "Today with Pat Kenny" programme. Politics can have no currency if it continually follows the media. We follow the media because every progressive...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Except for one.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I did not get a chance to read the OECD report yesterday, but having acquainted myself with it a bit more, I would like to call on the Leader for a debate on education. The problem with debating education in this House traditionally has been that there are so many teachers in both Houses of the Oireachtas that the debates always descend to a level of letting the Government spend more money,...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Like everyone else in Ireland, I care for my country, as do my colleagues in the Seanad. In the closing days of this Seanad we should reflect on the crisis in Irish politics, which is the lack of respect for politics and politicians. Our primary task should not be to score points against each other within the political system. All politicians have a duty of care to the Irish people and to...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I find the comments from most of the parties surreal at the moment. There is a consensus in this House to ignore two important factors. Very soon Fine Gael and the Labour Party will be in Government. They will have to face, as Senators Healy Eames and Butler have pointed out, not a dig-out, but a loan, a bank overdraft that has to be paid for. If it is paid at 5% and the full facility is...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2010)

Eoghan Harris: They were cut.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)

Eoghan Harris: The great Wesleyan preacher, John Wesley, used to say when he came into a room full of different Christian denominations arguing with each other, "Come brothers, let us reason together". Senator Fitzgerald has shown us how to reason together in this Chamber today. The situation is pretty simple. We — some of us anyway, bankers and politicians — got ourselves into a mess, but to argue...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Nov 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Death of Member: Expressions of Sympathy (17 Nov 2010)

Eoghan Harris: As we all heard and know, Senator Kieran Phelan was probably the most well liked Member of this House. Being well liked is not enough in politics, however. One must have character too. Senator Kieran Phelan had the same toughness and grit of character behind his affability. It was a toughness of spirit that he shared with the woman he helped to put in Dáil Éireann, the Minister for...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I came in today hoping I would hear serious criticism of the Government's policy over recent days and all I get is the green flag being wrapped around by everyone, especially by the Labour Party, and talk about economic sovereignty. James Connolly stated that if one took down the Union Jack from Dublin Castle and put up the green flag, it would make no difference. What is this blustering...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Some weeks ago a prominent academic in Northern Ireland revealed that there was soft support for the dissident IRA from no less than 18.4% of the Nationalist community. In that ominous context, it is beyond belief that RTE News would put out two minutes last night, at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., of what amounted to an inflammatory montage of what looked like police brutality. Everyone in the trade...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.