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Seanad: Renewable Energy: Statements (25 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: At 2.30 p.m. next Tuesday.

Seanad: Vocational Education Committees (25 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: Before the Minister replies, may I be allowed-----

Seanad: Vocational Education Committees (25 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: Just 30 seconds.

Seanad: Vocational Education Committees (25 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: I was a member of the VEC for four decades and served successfully with both Senator McFadden and her father. We all know what has happened with the HSE. I fully support Senator McFadden in her request. The VEC has 25 excellent staff and a terrific new building leased in Mullingar. It is a shining example of what should have been done in the case of the HSE. The counties in the Midlands...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: Senators Cummins, O'Toole, Alex White, Boyle, Donohoe, Walsh, Norris, Mooney, Coghlan, Healy Eames, Deary, Hanafin, Bradford and Carroll called for further debates on the four year national recovery plan. I thank all colleagues who participated in the magnificent debate we had yesterday in the House on the four year national recovery plan. The Seanad was the first House to debate the plan...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: I did not interrupt the Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: It is crucial that those responsible for implementation of the Croke Park agreement are held accountable and that is what this House will do. Senators Cummins, O'Toole, Norris, Keaveney, Healy Eames and Mullen are correct to call for a debate on the 60,000 outstanding applications for student grants that are urgently needed. I will do all I can to highlight this issue with the Minister for...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: The Order of Business is No. 1, statements on Ireland's renewable energy potential, to be taken at the conclusion of the Order of Business and conclude not later than 2 p.m., if not previously concluded, on which spokespersons may speak for 12 minutes and all other Senators for ten minutes and Senators may share time, by agreement of the House, with the Minister to be called upon ten minutes...

Seanad: National Recovery Plan 2011-2014: Statements (24 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: I welcome the Government's initiative in introducing a four year national recovery plan. Those of us who have been in the House a long time remember what happened in the 1980s when the situation was even more difficult. Some 900,000 people were unemployed compared with a figure of more than 1.7 million in employment today. According to the Minister, our exports have grown by 6% this year...

Seanad: National Recovery Plan 2011-2014: Statements (24 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: That is incorrect.

Seanad: National Recovery Plan 2011-2014: Statements (24 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: It is a figment of the Senator's imagination.

Seanad: National Recovery Plan 2011-2014: Statements (24 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: That is not sovereign debt.

Seanad: National Recovery Plan 2011-2014: Statements (24 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: Of course, he is the expert.

Seanad: National Recovery Plan 2011-2014: Statements (24 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: I wish to share three minutes of my time with Senator Walsh.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: I acknowledge the comments of Senators McCarthy, Walsh and Keaveney who played a major role in the mass for deceased Members. We have lost five Members in the lifetime of this Dáil and Seanad - the late Deputies Seamus Brennan and Tony Gregory and three colleagues in this House, Tony Kett, Peter Callanan and Kieran Phelan. I congratulate all those who brought us together this morning. It...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: Senator Burke is a shoe-in the next time. I am very happy for him. There is the opportunity to save €60 billion on an oil bill in the next ten years because of our geographical location on the map of the world. I was in the Isle of Man for two days with the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly and they, too, are at an advanced stage in trying to advance the technologies in wave and wind...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: I am speaking about now. Fifty years ago we had the wonderful decision by Donogh O'Malley in regard to education. Twenty years ago we had the decision on the 12.5% corporation tax, but where are we going for the future? Where do the parties who will be in government after the next election go to give us the wealth to pay back the loans we are getting now?

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: The future is in energy, and everyone I have met-----

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: -----whether they are in Opposition or in Government, agree. I invite and encourage every Senator who is available to do so to make a contribution to tomorrow's debate in regard to the great opportunity available to us to do something of a positive nature. Senator Cannon mentioned the interest on our repayments. That issue is crucial to the negotiators representing us in the Department. We...

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Bill 2010: Order for Second Stage (24 Nov 2010)

Donie Cassidy: I move: "That Second Stage be taken today."