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Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2009)

Dan Boyle: ...effects should be put aside in public life. While we are changing the nature of political life, there is a concern that in less open and accountable situations there are people bending ears and tapping shoulders for personal advantage and for those for whom they work. We must rid that culture from our society because we suffered from it politically and socially in the past. I would...

Seanad: The Economy: Statements (23 Sep 2009)

Dan Boyle: ...that in the future. One of the main gains from the Celtic tiger era was the sense of self-confidence that never existed at any other time in our economic history. If we are to recover we need to tap into that again. We cannot allow it to be dispirited and disappear from the fragile place from which it seems to have come. If we believe in ourselves as a people we can achieve. The...

Appointments to Public Bodies Bill 2007: Second Stage (27 Mar 2007)

Dan Boyle: Tapping or touching.

Public Expenditure: Motion (Resumed). (18 May 2005)

Dan Boyle: ...practised this mantra more than others. There will be similar debates to this one until there is a culture of culpability and willingness to accept that public money is not there to be used as a tap to be turned on and off for the political manoeuvrings of the Government parties.

Irish Nationality and Citizenship Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (2 Nov 2004)

Dan Boyle: ...the Bill presented to us by the Government only skirt around the issue. Despite what has been said, the referendum was taken by many voters to be about issues other than the referendum itself. It taps seams in too many people which are ugly in terms of a national psyche. One hopes that can be overcome in time and that people's motivations will not be questioned as we learn to live with our...