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Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Denis O'Donovan: The next speaker on my list, and the Leas-Chathaoirleach might have amended it, is Senator Lynn Ruane.

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Denis O'Donovan: As long as I was not the Senator's sugar daddy.

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Denis O'Donovan: There are six speakers left, including me. Nobody will be left out. Next on the hit list is Seanadóir Ó Céidigh.

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Denis O'Donovan: I will next call Senator McDowell. I am not curbing any debate but I hope he will not spend an hour on one syllable or one word.

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Denis O'Donovan: Especially those on Senator Wilson's panel.

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Denis O'Donovan: I call a former Cathaoirleach and a good friend of mine of many years, Senator Paddy Burke. We are coming to a close now.

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Denis O'Donovan: The penultimate speaker is the Leas-Chathaoirleach, whom I have the great honour and privilege to call to address the House.

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Denis O'Donovan: I do not think I have excluded anyone. I have really enjoyed my tenure as Cathaoirleach of the Twenty-fifth Seanad. I thank all the Senators for their co-operation, in particular the Leas-Chathaoirleach. Not alone has he been an exemplary Leas-Chathaoirleach, but before he became Leas-Chathaoirleach he respected me as a close friend and was somebody in whom I could confide. His integrity,...

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Denis O'Donovan: I also thank our Clerk, Mr. Martin Groves, and Ms Bridget Doody, who are, as we would say in rowing parlance, the stroke oar. They decide how the race is run. I thank Ms Popa and Ms Judge in the office and Ms Hart, who is my personal secretary and who has been extremely patient with and understanding of me. Over the past four years I think she has got to know certain aspects of me that I...

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Denis O'Donovan: I must now ask a question of the Acting Leader, Senator John O'Mahony. I should say that I regret that some of our colleagues are not running. I call John a half-west Cork man because his people came from there. Senator, I am sorry that you are not running again. You are a loss to the Seanad, but I wish you well on a personal basis. When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Denis O'Donovan: In case any other Member wishes to raise the matter of the FAI, I wish to advise that this matter is sub judice. I understand there will be all sorts of investigations into it so bí very cúramach that we do not drag ourselves into the Four Courts.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Denis O'Donovan: I ask Members to be very circumspect in their comments and also to be careful because we do not have a free-for-all in here. We are not entitled to it.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Denis O'Donovan: We have parliamentary privilege but that does not give us a licence to say what we like. I am not directing my comments specifically at Senator Craughwell.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Denis O'Donovan: Before I call on Senator Frances Black, I welcome to the Gallery a group of children and a special gentleman from the Kingdom who often broke Cork hearts. Tá fáilte romhat, Tomás Ó Sé. As a member of Gael Linn, I had the pleasure, many years before he was born, of sitting in the same class as the great Páidí in a small school west of Ventry in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Denis O'Donovan: If I am allowed I would like to call on another football fanatic. Senator John O'Mahony might say a brief word to our friend Mr. Tomás Ó Sé before he leaves, as a contest of Mayo versus Kerry. By the way, the O'Mahony family is from Drinagh in west Cork, so the Senator is half a Corkman though he might not admit it.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Denis O'Donovan: A lot of the staff around the House, including the Captain, are very nervous to see Mr. Ó Sé around. The Sam might go back to the south again. We will move on. I thank the Senators for indulging me.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Denis O'Donovan: I will have to fell the Senator on that note.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Denis O'Donovan: My head was a bit swollen in St. James’s Hospital six weeks ago. I think it is starting to swell again now. I better consult my neurologist when I hear that.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Denis O'Donovan: I thank the Senator for his kind remarks. I would also like to be associated with the comments on the sad passing of Paul Anthony McDermott. I was unaware of it because I was off sick. Mr. McDermott was a frequent visitor to this House and, to the best of my knowledge, he was an adviser to one of the committees I chaired as a Deputy. May he rest in peace. He was a very pleasant...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Denis O'Donovan: I am like an engine. One of the cylinders is not yet fully right but I hope it will be by the new year.