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Allocation of Time: Motion. (3 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: That is exactly what I am asking for.

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: This debate is not about the Taoiseach's personal life, Mauritius, forged letters or the leaking of information. The tribunal is dealing with this and, as the Taoiseach would say, we should let it deal with it. The Government has some nerve to condemn leaks, given the way in which the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform has used his position to leak Garda files to...

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: This debate is not about searching for a head on a plate but about ensuring that we have proper standards in Irish political life. This affair is about facts of legitimate public interest. It is about the fact that the Taoiseach took gifts from businesses and businessmen, that only ten days ago he misrepresented the established facts on Clare FM and has attempted to avoid answering...

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: There is a third option, which would also be a positive action. Will the Taoiseach introduce legislation to ban corporate donations to political parties and limit personal donations to nominal sums rather than a sum equalling the price of a house or a large yacht? Will he cut the financial ties between vested interests and policymakers forever? By normal standards, including his own...

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: The Taoiseach has choices. He can take positive action to clean up Irish politics, do the decent thing and resign or give the electorate the choice of his politics or mine.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: The most cunning of them all.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: A valid question was asked and I wish to ask it again because it should be answered more clearly. Would we ever have found out about these payments or would the loans, as the Taoiseach describes them, have been repaid if The Irish Times had not found out? On 18 February 1999 — six years almost to the day from when Senator Lydon got me in a headlock, which I remember very well — I asked...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Their size was.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: That is not a loan.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: It saves the Taoiseach money.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I asked this Taoiseach about this legislation, the Charities Regulation Bill, with the question I asked him in 1999 about being a beneficiary of gifts etc. I asked then and repeatedly since I was elected to this House because the 1990 Costello report indicated there was a need for reform of charities. Some 127 bodies benefiting from charitable status were not in the public domain at the...

Order of Business (3 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Which year?

Written Answers — State Property: State Property (3 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way he which he will use the proceeds of the sale of Shanganagh Castle, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30703/06]

Written Answers — Juvenile Offenders: Juvenile Offenders (3 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the steps he has taken to date to end the practice of detaining children in adult jails in breach of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; the action which has been taken to address reports of mistreatment of children in custody; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30704/06]

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: The Taoiseach yesterday told us he will not resign and he will not call an early election. The third option I put to him was a reform of the way politics is funded. I suggest it is time we had a measuring of election spending from polling day to polling day, not just during the three weeks before the election. The Taoiseach will understand the reasons for this when he sees the billboards...

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I conclude by asking the Taoiseach three questions. Was a gift of Stg£8,000, a huge sum of money at that time, not unorthodox? Was it not unusual? Was it not irregular? The Taoiseach told us the Stg£8,000 payment was the only such payment he received. Is it not the case that the Taoiseach clearly misled the Dáil by not answering that he received such a payment, and by suggesting that...

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: It is not enough.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I asked a straightforward question. I did not get an answer yesterday or today. Is the Taoiseach seriously asking us to believe that the Stg£8,000 payment was not unorthodox? That suggests it was quite normal and not unusual. Is he suggesting there were other payments, if it was not unusual? Is he suggesting the Stg£8,000 payment was not irregular? The Taoiseach, in his own words,...

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: I withdraw the word "lie" but the Taoiseach misled the Dáil. I ask him to face up to that, recognise the error of his ways and be honest.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2006)

Trevor Sargent: It was unorthodox, unusual and irregular.