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Curdled former YFG-er Deputy Brian Hayes brought his frankly freaky sexual ‘banter’ to bear on the Upper House last week.

Making the unelected ones look like statesmen.

Senator John Crown: “Fáilte a Aire. It is nice to see the Minister of State, Deputy Hayes, again, as we spent some pleasant time here the other day. I stated that somebody should really get video camera footage of the ministerial chair during the various stages of the Seanad Abolition Bill debate. We could make a really interesting pictorial calendar for 2014 of stills featuring the various faces that appeared.”

Senator David Norris: “Some of them of the same Minister.”

Crown: “I am not given to procedural wrangling. I come from a discipline, a day job, which prides itself in being of a rather practical bent, so from time to time I have been somewhat impatient with people using the procedures of the House apparently to delay matters or introduce issues not immediately germane or relevant to the item under discussion. There is a certain sense of getting our own back on this with regard to procedure. I would be grateful for the attention of the Minister of State and the Leader of the House. The manner in which this has been conducted by those who are proponents not really of putting the question to the people but rather of abolition of the House has been procedurally suspect. The arguments are well travelled and versed but they are nonetheless valid and bear some brief repetition.”

An Cathaoirleach: “Please continue Senator Crown.”

Crown: “I beg your pardon.”

Deputy Brian Hayes: “You lick yourself every night before you go to bed.”

Crown: “The word “prat” suggests itself sometimes.”

Norris: “Will the Minister of State make that remark more loudly?”

Senator Mark Daly:”He said the professor licks himself every night..”

Hayes: “I am saying..”

Daly: “..before he goes to bed.”

Hayes: “..in this House that you are talking to yourselves most of the time.”

An Cathaoirleach: “Senator Crown..”

Norris: “I beg your pardon. We are talking to ourselves, are we?”

Hayes: “You are talking to yourselves, yes.”

An Cathaoirleach: “Senator Crown, without interruption.”

Norris: “I think the Minister of State should withdraw that remark.”

An Cathaoirleach: “Senator Crown, without interruption.”

Norris: “We are talking to you Minister of State.”

An Cathaoirleach: “Senator Crown, without interruption.”

Norris:” No, I am sorry. The Minister of State says we are talking to ourselves and there is no reason to be here. Could the Cathaoirleach reprimand him on our behalf and ask him to withdraw the remark? It is outrageous.”

An Cathaoirleach: “Senator Crown, without interruption.”

Norris: “Will the Cathaoirleach not ask him to withdraw the remark “We are talking to ourselves”?

Hayes: “Sanctimonious crap.”

An Cathaoirleach: Senator Crown, without interruption.

Norris: “I am sorry but I ask you, a Chathaoirlaigh, to ask the Minister of State to withdraw that remark, which is an insult to Seanad Éireann. Will you do that?”

An Cathaoirleach: “I did not hear what he said.”

Norris: “You did. I will tell you what he said.”

Hayes: “You insulted me. I have no regard for you.”

Norris:”He said there was no need for him to be here and we are talking to ourselves.”

Hayes: “You were insulting me the whole evening.”

An Cathaoirleach: The record will show..”

Norris: “I never said a word about you.”

Hayes: “All evening, with your nonsense.”

An Cathaoirleach: “Senator Crown, without interruption.”

Crown: “Let us just hit the reset button. I am sorry but I would like to treat the Minister of State, this House, the Dáil and the process of Government with respect. I do not consider myself a politician but somebody with a real day job. I am somebody who because of the spirit of our original Constitution has found himself with the opportunity to take a position of advocacy, which I have done outside the House for many years, into the halls of our Oireachtas, as intended in the 1937 Constitution. I am sorry if I am not perhaps wise to the ways of politics and I beg the Minister of State’s indulgence in that respect.

Hayes: “But you are.”

Crown:” I believe that the way this problem has been tackled from the pro-abolitionist side has been unsatisfactory and it looks unsatisfactory. In the first instance, there were a number of amendments on Committee Stage that were never heard. I will gladly yield to the Minister of State if he wishes to make a point.”

Hayes: “I said there were ten hours during the debate when all of those issues could have been dealt with properly without the filibuster that occurred. The Senator knows that well, to be honest.”

An Cathaoirleach: “Senator Crown, without interruption.”

Hayes: “With respect, at least be honest and admit that.”

An Cathaoirleach: “Senator Crown, without interruption.”

Hayes: “The Senator knows that to be true.”

Senator Mary M. White: “He is being disrespectful by being on his iPad. It is the same as being on the telephone.”

An Cathaoirleach: “Senator Crown, without interruption.”

Crown: “I would like to yield the rest of my time. Thank you very much.”

Minister Hayes’s uninterested and unprofessional attendance at the Seanad (ProfJohnCrown.com)

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Arrogance and childish petulance versus chrome-domed reasonableness.

There can only be one winner.

Independent TD Stephen Donnelly (above) and Fine Gael Junior Minister Brian Hayes (top) joined Pat Kenny this morning to talk about reports of a leaked confidential Troika document outlining proposals for a seven-year extension of Ireland and Portugal’s EU/IMF bailout.

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Brian Hayes: “If you can stretch out the payments like you can, if you could for your mortgage or other forms of loans, that would make sense. So the key thing is Ireland and Portugal put this thing on the table last January. The Commission then gave a report. The Troika are now bringing forward the report. I see some of it may or may not have been leaked to the papers from Reuters last evening. That report will be discusses at the ECOFIN meeting in Dublin this weekend, which is an informal meeting. And we’ll see where it goes.”

Pat Kenny: “What will it mean in practical terms. I mean if you do get an average of seven years extension on all these loans. Some of which are due relatively soon. What does it mean in practical terms, in terms of the Budget every year for example?”

Hayes: “It will not make a huge difference to the budget arithmetic but  it will help, make a huge difference in respect of our return to the markets because if you owe a €100 and you’ve to pay it back next year and you can then get a term extension over a number of years, say €20 a year, for the next five years, that obviously means that there’s less money to be paid back each year and it gives you more breathing space.”

Kenny: “Is this a process absolutely separate from the legacy debt?”

Hayes: “Yes. It is. Totally separate. That is another issue. It’s an issue that we’re working hard on but it’s a medium-term issue. Where this issue…this is effectively the money that we’ve already drawn down Pat. When we went into the bailout programme and used both of those (EFSF and EFSM) funds from, two-thirds effectively two-thirds of the money involved, it was quite tight in terms of the payback time. Now we’ve been arguing since, if we get a longer maturity, it makes it easier for us to get back to the markets and make things like debt position more sustainable. Ireland becomes more attractive to investors. The key in all this debate, I mean when you talk about debt, and moving on ten year money is, how do you get money back into Ireland? How do you get the private sector investment going? And the key to it is this, if the stake is less, looks less risky, from a sovereign perspective, as we clearly have, because the cost of ten-year money has gone down from 15%  to less than 4% last night. You know if you get that perception out there, money is coming back into Ireland.”

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Junior finance minister Brian Hayes.

In an interview with the Irish Independent, junior finance minister Brian Hayes said the deal would not be extended in December’s Budget, and buyers must act before the “train will have left the station”.

“”This is an offer of a lifetime, it won’t come again,” …All our futures are based on getting the property market going again. People need to act fast to avail of it.””


First-Time Home Buyers Told To take €5,000 ‘Deal Of A Llifetime’ (Independent.ie)

“IN recent days, both David McWilliams and Bruce Arnold have been arguing with some force that Ireland should leave the euro and establish its own currency. They are not alone in their opinions. I believe that people who advocate this line of action are in effect supporting car-crash economics.

If we crash a car and are lucky enough to survive, we will be taken to hospital, put into intensive care and at some stage we will start to get better. And getting better is good, of course. But would anybody crash a car in order to feel better at some later stage? Not very likely.”

Seriously.

Who writes this crap?

Leaving The Euro Would Be Car-Crash Economics (Brian Hayes, Irish Independent)