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Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is more than in order that I demand-----

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----that the truth and the facts are established.

Order of Business (13 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: You do no honour to your position, a Cheann Comhairle, in taking that line.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Taoiseach agree with his Cabinet colleague, the Green Party leader, Deputy John Gormley, that he should have revealed the details of all contacts with Seán FitzPatrick, when the issues and the questions were first put to him in the House? Having up to that point withheld the information that he had received a telephone call from Seán FitzPatrick on St. Patrick's day 2008, while in...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Taoiseach not understand that it is not only a credibility deficit in terms of Opposition or the wider public but it is clearly also a credibility deficit for many of the voices on his own benches and also for the Green Party, as evidenced by yesterday's press conference? There is a large credibility deficit. As the Deputy who made the approach to the Taoiseach that day - I have...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I am asking questions and with the same fairness, I would hope. Was there anyone else in the company? It is now some time later but my recall, from trying to work my way back through that two and a half years, is that it was apparent to me-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----there were a number of people in the wider company and more than two. I was not introduced to them, I did not know them personally, I had never met Seán FitzPatrick before or since. Those are the facts. It is important that the House knows the full truth of the matter. For instance, was any other official of the Taoiseach's Department or any other Department or of a State agency or...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Taoiseach has not shed a scintilla of light on what he discussed over the course of that afternoon and evening. His denial of any mention of Anglo Irish Bank is not being bought.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In regard to the additional people who the Taoiseach acknowledged were in attendance for the evening meal, were they invited by the Taoiseach, Mr. Fitzpatrick or Mr. Drury? Can he indicate the raison d'être for the selection of the particular group of individuals who were not part of the golfing outing? Is that the normal group of people with whom the Taoiseach spends social evenings? He...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We have a situation whereby the outgoing chief executive and his smiled upon successor are at loggerheads. Both of them cannot be telling the truth. Clearly there is a major issue. I recognise that innocent situations can present in all our lives but it is stretching credibility to claim that the Taoiseach was involved in a social engagement with a key player who has been accused by his...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----of all that was unfolding in Anglo Irish Bank-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----at no point in the course of a long afternoon and evening spent together did these matters arise. This leads me to September 2008 and the evening when the Minister for Finance, Deputy Lenihan-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----presented his case-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----for the bank guarantee.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In response to questioning from this Deputy about whether he was in possession of critical information which he had not shared, he stated there was nothing else. I specifically asked whether we were being requested to buy a pig in a poke.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We learned subsequently that Bank of Ireland and AIB had been in touch with him on the eve of his case being put to us. That information was not shared in this Chamber.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was not at the time.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is my position.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach elaborate on the other invitees to his party?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Banking never came up at all.