Results 2,681-2,700 of 3,225 for speaker:Paul Connaughton Snr

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I can assure the Minister of State that nobody will put me out of this House.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Deputy Roche certainly will not do it.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Minister of State thinks he is superior.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: He thinks he knows it all.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I know that.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: It was something for which I was never known.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I know my place unlike the Minister of State.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Shame on the Minister of State.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I am Deputy Connaughton by name. Here longer than the Minister of State.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: The Minister of State does not like to be heckled.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Of course.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: No more than decentralisation.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Why did the Government not do it before now?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Blaming the Opposition.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: It is a pity we do not have another half an hour of wisdom and fortitude.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Wisdom and fortitude.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I wish to share time with Deputy Varadkar.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I thank the previous speaker for the wisdom and fortitude that he has bestowed upon the Dáil in the superior role he has when he comes in here.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: Exactly, a true enlightenment for all the persons who may not have got such wisdom from his world. Every party in the Dáil fully understood the financial consequences that beset our economy last week. No matter how one looks at it and no matter what spin the Government will put on it, in fairness to Fine Gael and the Labour Party, all the Opposition parties came to the table last week with...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2009)

Paul Connaughton Snr: I understand that many economists who looked at it since have given it the green light, that there were two or three other measures that could have been taken in difficult circumstances. My big problem with the budget is that while it is one matter to take out €4 billion, and there had to be severe cuts, the idea that the Government would cut its way, through this mechanism, out of trouble...