Seanad debates

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

3:05 pm

Photo of David NorrisDavid Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Persons like that should be vigorously vetted before they are allowed in. We should be alerted to their presence, particularly since they boast about their devious programme.

I welcome the judgment of Mr. Justice Peter Charleton in the High Court yesterday upholding a claim from the proprietors of Bewley's that they should not be tied into the upward-only rent review. I have been raising this subject for many years and I think this is a significant judgment which blows a hole in the Government's argument that there is nothing they could do about it for constitutional reasons. It will be interesting to see if there is a challenge.

Turning to the question of Cyprus, Senator Conway is right - we do stand revealed, but not in the heroic way he thinks. We stand revealed as forelock touchers to our new masters in Europe. I notice that the head of the Eurogroup, Mr. Dijsselbloem, says that the Cyprus plan provides a blueprint for-----

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