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Seanad: Appointments to State Agencies and Public Bodies: Motion (8 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: He was resigning as leader of his political party. The Senator can explain it to Green Party members in his own time but that is my interpretation. He was resigning as leader of the Fianna Fáil Party, not as leader of the Government. The Green Party leader submitted to being in the same photograph as all the senior members of the Fianna Fáil Party at the time. If the Senator really...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: Later we will have an extensive debate on the budget but I call on the Leader of the House to arrange a separate debate on this new organisation, the national asset management agency. Nonsensical amounts of money are being advanced by the taxpayer to set up this organisation, yet at the same time we are not 100% sure whether it is the right thing to be doing. The establishment of the agency...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: We need to have a serious debate in this House on that issue because if we nationalise the two major Irish banks, more taxpayers' money will have to be spent and that will continue the exposure of the taxpayer to billions of euro in the coming years. The outcome of that decision necessitates a serious debate involving questions and answers with the Minister for Finance. The establishment of...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: Does the Senator realise he is a Fine Gael man?

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: That might restrict him in nominating him for an honour.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: That's right.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: The Senator should not make a fool of herself.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: That includes everybody.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: All the better.

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: Over the past two days this budget has been debated extensively in the Lower House so much of what we say today will be repetition to some degree for the Minister. Ministers should be described as super, but rather than in the traditional sense of the word it is in the sense it is used with supermodels. We have supermodels in the Cabinet rather than on the catwalk. It is not the way the...

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: I thought the Senator said it was global.

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: They continue to get it wrong.

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: It is good to be truthful.

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: The Senator requested my opinion.

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: What is my attitude?

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: The Senator made a comment about me in the House and stated they would be lacerated because of the property tax and I agree with her. She will be lacerated. I did not say I would lacerate her myself, but I agree with what she said. When Fianna Fáil got rid of the property tax in 1977 it was a political stunt.

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: The Government will pay the price for that political stunt.

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: Who went bust, though?

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: It was the Senator's budget, not mine.

Seanad: Supplementary Budget Statement 2009: Statements (9 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: Good. At long last.