Results 3,381-3,400 of 12,631 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: As I said, Fine Gael cannot be simultaneously in favour of both saving and spending. I have figured out at last why Fine Gael and the Labour Party spend so much time in opposition. It is because they are congenitally predisposed to negativity. I came across a quotation which illustrates this point and which is almost 50 years old. In 1962, in reference to Fine Gael and the Labour Party,...
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: Deputy Bruton should be aware that I have read his election manifesto.
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: If we had done as Fine Gael proposed in its election manifesto, we would be in a far worse situation.
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: When will the Deputies opposite get over the fact that they lost the election? It is time they accepted it.
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: Fine Gael based its election proposals on the same figures.
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: Fine Gael budgeted before the election for greater spending.
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: Deputy Bruton needs to talk to the other members of the Fine Gael Front Bench.
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: Has the Deputy forgotten what happened in 1986 and 1987?
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: That is why the Deputy is in opposition.
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: Soundbites.
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: Like John Bruton, I suppose.
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: They are usually successful.
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: That is not true.
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: That is not true.
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: The Deputy should withdraw that.
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: Untrue.
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: It would be worse if the Opposition got what it was looking for.
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: Is this official Fine Gael policy?
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: Would the Deputy care to identify the duds?
- National Development Plan: Motion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2008)
Willie O'Dea: He is the parliamentary equivalent of a barber's shop, all wind and song.