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Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: When my party entered government in 2007, it did so knowing what had happened to smaller parties which had entered coalition Governments. The likelihood was that in the succeeding election it would see a reduction in the number seats and votes won because that had been the experience of all smaller parties in government. However, no one could have anticipated the depth of the change in our...

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: Senator Bacik will do it herself.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: We will see next year.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: And Senator Bacik will.

Seanad: Confidence in Government: Motion (8 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: On 17 December.

Seanad: Budget Statement 2011: Statements (8 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: This morning I attended a briefing by the Irish Taxation Institute. Obviously, the organisation does valuable work, but the briefing revealed the existence of many Irelands. The reaction to the budget was based solely on the tax changes, as that is within its remit. There was no reference to the cuts in social welfare payments and only one vague reference to the cuts in public expenditure...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: Iceland is also the recipient of funding from the IMF and much of what is happening there is being replicated here. I support the calls for a debate on education. It is important to consider the OECD report fully and it is also has to be accepted that inputs and outputs in education are not being measured adequately. The budgetary process engaged in by the Department of Finance has been too...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: -----the reduction in capitation that was less than the rate of inflation over the past two years.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: We will have an opportunity to discuss the budget and its context. Whatever the role of Senators and the House, as a citizen of this country, I am looking forward to the next budgetary process, when I believe many of the same decisions will be made.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: If it was changed, the Senator would give out about it.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: I can sense the concerns of some Senators today and the need to reinvent history. My recollection of the events of 30 September was that a number of events had preceded them. There was an ongoing concern about the viability of banks prior to that date, and the Cabinet had several discussions about the policy options open to the Government and the likely consequences of any particular policy...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: I have a particular recollection of ongoing debate at that time about the policy options that were available. None of us knows what was said in the Cabinet conversations, but I am led to believe that some of the people who are most opposed to the existence of the bank guarantee, namely top-level economists, were among those who advised in favour of such a guarantee at the time. In view of...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: It was not true then either. Which story does the Senator wish to believe?

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: "Lies", a Cheann Comhairle. What about Standing Orders?

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: On a point of order, Cathaoirleach-----

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: Charging a Member with "lying" is not allowed in Standing Orders.

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: Amendments Nos. 12 to 14, inclusive, 16 and 16a are related to amendment No. 11 and all will be discussed together.

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: No, amendments Nos. 11 to 14, inclusive, 16 and 16a are being discussed together.

Seanad: EU-IMF Programme for Ireland: Statements (2 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: In the 1980s a friend of mine with whom I shared parallel periods of unemployment developed a deliberate Spoonerism for the phrase "fiscal rectitude", the phrase de rigueur at the time. Given our mutual situation, he constantly referred to it as "rectal fistitude". It was amusing then, but is probably more apt now. The situation this country is experiencing is formed on pain and on more...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2010)

Dan Boyle: I would like to be associated with the commendation of those in communities who are working through difficult weather conditions. They prove that at these most difficult times for the country, there is hope and there are possibilities among the people and we should seek to build on that. I look forward to the debate we will have later today on the EU-IMF package. I agree with Senator Bacik...