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Seanad: Public Service Agreement 2010-2014: Statements (13 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: It is good to have a young and dynamic Minister of State working on this matter. As I have told the House, the political class has been long institutionalised by the public service. As someone who formerly worked in an active body to protect the public service, my disillusionment set in at the time of Charles Haughey and the politicisation of the Civil Service. The current public service...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: As we speak, a cylinder is ascending through solid rock carrying the seventh or eighth of the Chilean miners, and I know that all of us who have followed Chile and its struggle to establish over the last 30 years will salute the epic achievement of the Chilean people, and the Chilean and other engineers who have achieved this. I do not think I have to labour the point about co-operation. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: True.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I support Senator O'Toole's remarks in support of the call by the Green Party for consensus. Like him, I deplore the Taoiseach's tepid response and that of the other parties. Professor Rónán Fanning suggested the appropriate response to our structural crisis, the greatest crisis the State has ever faced, would be to establish a cross-party forum along the lines of the New Ireland Forum of...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Common logic and arithmetic dictate we should look to the public sector to make savings. Marc Coleman pointed out that if we were to look to the public sector alone, neither the welfare sector nor the productive private sector would need to be touched. There are pension liabilities of €108 billion, huge salaries, hundreds of thousands of euro being spent on hospitals that have not been...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: It is common sense. Senator Buttimer has turned into a party hack.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: What has that got to do with public sector cuts?

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: You are just looking out for the teachers. That is all you are doing. You are petty and-----

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I want to take a cut and I want you to take a cut.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: You have a big problem. You are fighting it every inch of the way.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: You are bluffing and blustering.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: That man made very personal remarks.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: You are. You are trying to defend-----

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I am all for that.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Last week saw the first tentative moves towards a civility in this House and towards an agreement that everyone and every party has an obligation to do their best to take the country out of this terrible period it is in. I have criticised the Taoiseach before for his tribal approach to politics. He has been partisan, but he seems to have learned some lessons. Now I want to say to Fine Gael...

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Oct 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I am handing it out to both sides. I support the call of Senator Joe O'Toole for a discussion, which will have to involve all parties, on the Croke Park agreement. As the late and much mourned Moss Keane said about one of the first matches he played for Castleisland, it was the kind of game which was of more interest to the participants than to the spectators. That is the kind of politics...