Results 121-140 of 445 for speaker:Eoghan Harris

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)

Eoghan Harris: If anything has eased the pain of the Troubles in the North, it is acts of empathy with the other side, walking in other people's shoes. I remember, in particular, when Mr. Alex Maskey of Sinn Féin moved towards the Protestant community in regard to the First World War and how deeply and profoundly it affected him. I am somewhat concerned that in our tributes to Lord Saville and Mr. David...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jun 2010)

Eoghan Harris: The official in question happened to be the one to be singled out.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jun 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Overstating anything borders on falsehood. I wish to go against the grain of two consensuses that have developed in the House in recent weeks. First, the three authors of the two banking reports did not state the recession was purely domestically made. In subsequent press conferences and in all of the media, they went out of their way to point out that there were global influences. It is...

Seanad: Role of Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Statements (18 May 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Role of Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Statements (18 May 2010)

Eoghan Harris: It is very interesting.

Seanad: Role of Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Statements (18 May 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I wish to share time with Senator Quinn.

Seanad: Role of Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Statements (18 May 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I welcome the Minister. I am not a great fan of either the Broadcasting Act or Broadcasting Authority of Ireland because I have direct personal experience of them. I worked for 25 years in RTE and was often accused of being up to certain political activities there. I was mostly accused of being zealous on behalf of the Government's own instruction, section 31. I was zealous in...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 May 2010)

Eoghan Harris: It was good to hear such consensus in the House in the matter of pensions. The Taoiseach is on record as saying he believes in Cabinet Government. That is a good thing, because there is far too much of the presidential style in western European politics, and it is good to have Cabinet Government. This presupposes, however, that the Ministers appointed do not suffer from "political...

Seanad: Order of Business. (13 May 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I ask the Leader to consider having a debate on moving on. By this I mean that there is an ideological division in the country which has become clear to those of us who work in newspapers. On the one hand, one has those who want to continue fomenting anger and looking back, while at the same time trying to moving forward. They give one a dialectic in that they want to move back and forward...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Tell that to Senator Buttimer.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 May 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Senator Ó Murchú was correct to say we should not overstate yesterday's demonstration. It was valuable, in that it threw into sharp relief the behaviour of the mass of the Irish people. We should take more pride in the fact that what is probably one of the greatest structural crises we have ever had is being dealt with by the people. Apart from two sets of demonstration - one by the old...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Apr 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Women's Participation in Politics: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Follow that.

Seanad: Women's Participation in Politics: Statements. (27 Apr 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I am sharing time with Senator Norris and as he is counting already, please do not interrupt me again. I welcome the Minister of State. I have long been a great admirer of hers, both as a Deputy and Minister of State. I am delighted she has carried on her tradition of plain speaking because there is incredible hypocrisy in considering the question of the access of women to politics. Lip...

Seanad: Order of Business. (22 Apr 2010)

Eoghan Harris: The philosopher Plato imagined the perfect republic. To ensure there was no back-sliding, he imagined a class of guardians. The Romans who were wiser people asked, quis ipsos custodiet custodes - who will guard the guardians? That question is apposite this morning in the context of two examples of failure on the part of our guardians. There has been much talk about the responsibility of...

Seanad: Death of President of Poland: Expressions of Sympathy. (22 Apr 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Like other Independent Members, I commiserate with the people of Poland and I associate myself with the sentiments of other Senators. As Senator Twomey said, it is important the great state of Poland enjoys harmonious relationships with its neighbours to the east and west. Out of the tragedy of the terrible plane crash has come a new dawn of glasnost and openness between the former Soviet...

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2010)

Eoghan Harris: I understand the reason Senator Buttimer must protect and advance his party's cause. We all hold different views of the cause of the recession. Mine is well known - I believe it was driven fundamentally by low interest rates. Be that as it may, we are stuck where we are. While I have no objection to the pursuit of the alleged guilty parties, in dealing with the issue and trying to roll...

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Be that as it may, there is significant consensus in Irish politics about our ideology. It is not generally remarked upon but in Ireland we agree the best system for economic activity is capitalism, mediated strongly by social democracy. In other words, capitalism is like hard players but there are also corrupt and dirty players. The business of the State is to act like a tough referee on...

Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Apr 2010)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.