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Merchant Shipping Bill 2009: Second Stage (28 May 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Deputy Woods is sore, he is making the wrong agreements.

Merchant Shipping Bill 2009: Second Stage (28 May 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: This is very important legislation, which we support. If amendments or other issues must be addressed, we will deal with them on Committee Stage in order to improve the legislation. The sole aim of everybody here is to ensure the safety of people at sea. We will do anything we can as a Legislature to insist that the most effective safety measures are put in place in the construction,...

Merchant Shipping Bill 2009: Second Stage (28 May 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: The key issue is that Members are considering safety and that while this is good legislation, they must consider the recommendations of the Marine Casualty Investigation Board's reports and must examine the reasons the regulations were not enforced. The second issue pertains to the question of disability access. All Members will concur that making provision and facilities for those who have...

Merchant Shipping Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 May 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Government definitely does not.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: They are.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: The Taoiseach is banjaxed.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: They are the last ones he will get.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is our policy.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: How many homes has Deputy Gormley?

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: The climate has changed.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Absolutely.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: What about Deputy Ciarán Cuffe?

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: They are comrades in planning.

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: How many of those are in the Minister's office?

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Where do Deputy Flynn and others like her stand?

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: I wish to share my time with Deputy Reilly. This is an important debate. We speak really out of the fire of an election, out of the anger of the people who have been hurt grievously by this Government, and facing a winter of discontent with a Government that has no mandate and no policies and does not know where it is going. The people are extremely angry. They showed that to Fianna Fáil,...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: You have become the green mulch rather than the Green Party. You are caught in the grips of a party, Fianna Fáil, which some of them have opposed in the past. Some years ago during a debate here Deputy Gormley went to the Fianna Fáil side of the House and stated that he wanted to sit there so he could see what it is like to speak from the side with the stench of corruption in building and...

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: I was in tune with Green Party policies for many years. When I came into the Seanad, Deputy Gormley and I had a good friendship. On many occasions I was in your office where we debated openly and frankly-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: -----nuclear power issues and all of the green environmental issues about which you and I were both equally concerned. As Opposition spokespersons on the environment, Deputy Cuffe and I agreed on many core issues such as planning and climate change policy

Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: Hold on a second, I want to get this exactly right. The reason those guys are sitting there with no friends is that they have sold their souls to Fianna Fáil. They have lost all credibility. All they must think about is people like me who would always vote Fine Gael, Labour and Green. I would always vote Green. This time I said, "No way, no chance," because they have no credibility....