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Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Apr 2013)

Brian Hayes: ...take half of that for this year, €50 million, it amounts to one sixth of the savings we need this year. It cannot be done by taking out everyone earning over €100,000, putting them up against the wall and inviting former comrades in the IRA to do what they can to them. That will not solve the problem and the Sinn Féin members know it.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2006)

Brian Hayes: ...wasp. In Finglas this morning the wasp was at it again. The threat posed to this society by organised crime, specifically drug related crime, is as real and serious as the threat posed by the IRA and other subversive organisations in the recent past.

Seanad: European Council: Statements. (5 Apr 2006)

Brian Hayes: ...be congratulated on its work in this area. The announcement by ETA of an unconditional, permanent ceasefire was considerably more advantageous than the announcement of the initial ceasefire by the IRA over ten years ago, and it is to be congratulated on this. Any measures the European Union can introduce in the Basque region to support and sustain the ceasefire, and the peace process I...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Apr 2006)

Brian Hayes: ...I would like to make on that appalling killing. First, I was quite surprised by the Government's initial reaction to the killing because it seemed to take at face value the statement issued by the IRA. We know the form of the IRA and that it has in the past issued statements that have been proven to be untrue. In many respects, the bigger the crime, the bigger the lie on the part of that...

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Statements. (2 Feb 2006)

Brian Hayes: ...than I, as I was only eight years of age when it happened, that the Le Mons was the scene of one of the North's worst atrocities. By way of a firebomb, 12 innocent civilians were murdered by the IRA in 1978. From my discussion with the gathering, people from outside Northern Ireland — London, England, Scotland and Wales — sometimes have an inability to understand the level of...

Seanad: Order of Business. (1 Dec 2005)

Brian Hayes: ...Article 13.6 of the Constitution, presidential pardons aim to deal with miscarriages of justice. Can we say that miscarriages of justice have occurred in any of these cases, which mainly involve IRA terrorists? This is an example of politicians meddling with the judicial process because the Government wishes to establish an eligibility body. This House should be aware of the recent...

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Nov 2005)

Brian Hayes: The only partitionist mentality that exists is demonstrated by certain people who continue to pander to Sinn Féin and the IRA. The Senator is once again pandering to the IRA.

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Statements. (6 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: ...Maurice Hayes over the ten to 15 year period that has brought us to where we are today. It was significant that the Taoiseach reminded the House that the last Irish parliamentarian murdered by the IRA was a Member of the Seanad, Senator Billy Fox of my party. He was killed for no other reason than being a Protestant who lived along the Border. In reminding the House of this awful event the...

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Statements. (6 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: ...of the High Court in London to investigate the ownership of 250 houses in Manchester with a net asset value of £9.6 million sterling? This is property that is allegedly in the ownership of the IRA. It is astonishing that republicans who wanted to fight absentee landlords for many years are now going into the business of renting accommodation in a very large United Kingdom city.

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Statements. (6 Oct 2005)

Brian Hayes: This is a fact. We must decommission the substantial empire the IRA has amassed by criminal means in recent years. Last week, Senator Minihan put it very well when he stated the IRA was not going out of business but into business. It is the kind of business we must be very careful of and expose, which is the view of every democratic political party inside and outside the House. How can we...

Seanad: Garda Investigations: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Brian Hayes: ...witnesses to the court to give open evidence in that court. Despite all the smiles, sweet words and lovely press and photo opportunities, these people are capable of anything. What Sinn Féin-IRA want to do now is to wipe all this clean. It wants this campaign and the Rafferty family to go away. It hopes that this issue will not emerge next week, that no one else will raise it at another...

Seanad: Garda Investigations: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Brian Hayes: ...good father to his four year old daughter whom he provided with a home. He was murdered in cold blood on 12 April as he left his home. The only crime he committed was to get in the way of Sinn Féin-IRA which did not like the fact that a personal altercation took place. I am not suggesting that the army council took a corporate decision to murder Mr. Rafferty but the fact remains that one...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Sep 2005)

Brian Hayes: ...and Christmas. Fine Gael unreservedly welcomes the statement this week by General de Chastelain of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning in respect of the decommissioning of IRA weapons. This is an historic development and is something we should all welcome. It has been a key aspect not only of every Government since the foundation of the State, but also a key aspect...

Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Jun 2005)

Brian Hayes: ...influence of the SDLP and others. The kind of deal that was done there in the past 24 hours is helpful. I welcome what the Taoiseach said in the other House yesterday about the potential of a new IRA statement. It is clear that Senators will not have an opportunity to discuss such a statement in detail if it is issued while the House is in recess. Can the Deputy Leader indicate whether...

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 May 2005)

Brian Hayes: ...boldly that actions taken by him in giving additional support to the Garda in Dublin had resulted in the breaking up of major criminal gangs in the city. He also claimed that he was confident that IRA criminality was a thing of the past. On both of those counts, the statements now ring hollow given his announcement yesterday that welcome additional resources are to be given to the Garda in...

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Mar 2005)

Brian Hayes: ...the evidence in that case to face down the appalling threat and intimidation of the paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. It is worth stating that more Catholics were killed in Northern Ireland by the IRA than any other paramilitary group in the past 30 years, a fact which is sometimes forgotten. On 19 May 2004, a substantive motion was tabled by our group, supported by the Labour Party and...

Seanad: Order of Business. (3 Feb 2005)

Brian Hayes: Does the Leader agree that there is something menacing and threatening about the IRA statement issued last night? It is clear from it that the IRA still has not gone away despite the fact that it initially called a ceasefire more than ten years ago and that in 1998 the people North and South voted for the Good Friday Agreement and called on both Governments to implement it. I will make three...

Seanad: Northern Ireland Issues: Motion. (2 Feb 2005)

Brian Hayes: ...and very blunt. We should not forget that the entire process was in place from September to December. On 1 December, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform said he was convinced that the IRA was on the peaceful path because he had not seen criminality. Of course he had not — they had turned it off in the run up to the talks. When the talks did not go their way they turned it...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Bill 2002: Second Stage [Resumed]. (27 Jan 2005)

Brian Hayes: .... As well meaning as his Government members were in bringing him into the international community, they should hang their heads in shame given what they knew about his exporting of arms to the IRA. I was astonished at the pace of international relations between Britain and Libya given Gadaffi's support for international terrorism for many years not only in Ireland but elsewhere. Irish...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Jan 2005)

Brian Hayes: ...the Sinn Féin leadership. The political establishment has finally woken up to the criminal threat posed to our State as a result of the continuation of a paramilitary political party — Sinn Féin-IRA. I welcome the emergence of this new reality. For many years I have spoken about this threat and it is welcome that Members now seem to recognise the threat posed. The Taoiseach must also...