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Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Jim Walsh: The jobs about which the Senator is speaking are in the private sector.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Jim Walsh: It is only appropriate that anybody in the House would welcome the announcement of new jobs but it is disingenuous to claim that jobs in the private sector are in some way the creation of the Government and I am surprised to hear it from somebody as experienced as Senator Burke. Governments do not create jobs.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Jim Walsh: The best governments can do-----

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Jim Walsh: -----is create the climate in which jobs can occur. This Government is a master of the broken promises that Senator Burke referred to, and of spin. People need and are entitled to more, particularly in respect of housing. We have heard a great deal recently about the controversy within the Government about one small segment of housing provision, important as it is but we have not seen real...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Jim Walsh: By following the Fianna Fáil plan that was in place when it came in.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Jim Walsh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Jim Walsh: That is a high figure, twice what it was. Fianna Fáil had it down to 4.5%.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Jim Walsh: Fianna Fáil had it down to 4.5%.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Jim Walsh: There was unprecedented growth during the Fianna Fáil era. Senator Cummins knows that. We had 7%, 8% and 9% growth.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Jim Walsh: It will take another five years to do that.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2015)

Jim Walsh: While I support those who call for an investigation into human trafficking in the fishing industry, based on a British newspaper report, which has obviously prompted politicians to comment, it raises certain questions. We should not just be looking at fishing in isolation. Human trafficking is far more extensive than just the fishing industry, and people are trafficked for both labour and...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2015)

Jim Walsh: None.

Seanad: National Mortgage and Housing Corporation Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

Jim Walsh: Six-figure salaries.

Seanad: National Mortgage and Housing Corporation Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

Jim Walsh: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Tom Hayes, to the House. My simple political philosophy is that people are entitled to live without interference. That is the reason I believe abortion is such an evil. Between 20% and 25% of unborn babies are killed in their mothers' wombs before they get the chance to see the light of day. I also believe youngsters have a right to an education...

Seanad: National Mortgage and Housing Corporation Bill 2015: Second Stage (4 Nov 2015)

Jim Walsh: -----by a Minister who was concentrating on something else other than what he should have been concentrating on, and he was told that in this House. It will have to be addressed. By allowing this Bill to be debated further there will hopefully be some suggestions which come forward which would be taken on board. I will conclude. I respect the Minister of State, but I think the line...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)

Jim Walsh: I will not rehash what happened yesterday, but I will add my voice to that of Senator Terry Leyden on the removal from the Statute Book of the defence of reasonable chastisement of children. I hope the motivation that prompted the Minister and some Senators to support this measure heralds a sea change in their thinking with regard to the rights of children. I am referring specifically to...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)

Jim Walsh: -----pursue their own financial aggrandisement. It is a terrible reflection on them and that era needs to be consigned to the history of the recent past. I would like to think Sinn Féin would be more about sinn féin and disavow mé féinism.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)

Jim Walsh: People in rural areas are entitled to more-----

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)

Jim Walsh: The party of law and order has become the party with no law and disorder.

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2015)

Jim Walsh: I was not here on Tuesday for Second Stage. As I said earlier, we had a meeting in London in the House of Commons on other issues. I read about the comments made by Senator Norris in the newspapers, but it may surprise him and others that I did not disagree hugely with what he said. There are significant differences between the relationships of same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples....