Results 5,001-5,020 of 12,637 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: -----and having seen the transcript, I took the initiative. I went to my solicitor and immediately corrected my affidavit. I was not forced or pressed to do this. I did so of my own volition as I then knew that my original affidavit was incorrect.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: I was not.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: I am dealing with this. I was not, as Fine Gael has asserted, found out by the production of a tape recording of my interview. Its members have been insinuating that as if the interview had been recorded without my knowledge. I knew it was being recorded as there was a cassette recorder clearly in front of me.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: It is not the slightest bit credible that I would swear an incorrect-----
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: ------affidavit of a conversation that I knew had been taped when there was a tape in existence in the possession of a journalist. I ask this question of the media-----
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: -----a minority of whom have been putting out comment masquerading as fact. There is a witness to the interview, namely, the journalist concerned. Why has he not been asked whether I knew the interview was being recorded? Has anybody bothered to ask the journalist who did the interview to see if a tape suddenly appeared or if I knew that the interview was being recorded?
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: The facts do not suit.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: I am not answering any questions. I declared the error.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: It was not discovered or uncovered by anybody else. I saw my own mistake.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: Am I going to be allowed to make my statement?
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: This is a motion of confidence in me. Will I be allowed make my statement without interruption?
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: I declared the error. It was not discovered or uncovered by anyone else. I saw my own mistake - I brought it to the attention of others. I admitted my error and I paid the price.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: Now Fine Gael wants me to pay a double price. It wants to remove me form office for openly admitting, owning up and remedying a mistake I made to the satisfaction of the aggrieved party.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: If Fine Gael and Deputy Kenny's idea of standards, judgment and ethics is to punish those who admit honest mistakes, then that is one more reason many decent and law abiding people who should fear the prospect of Enda Kenny ever becoming Taoiseach.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: As I pointed out last night, evidence and testimony-----
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: Is the Cheann Comhairle-----
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: As I pointed out last night, evidence and testimony is regularly corrected in courts without allegations and assertions of lying and perjury being levelled.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: People in all walks of life have been obliged to correct testimony whether in written and oral form. However, there is a principle that he who comes looking for justice should come with clean hands. How clean are Fine Gael's hands when it comes to owning up to its mistakes?
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: Let us remember that this is the same Fine Gael party that deliberately suppressed a document from the Moriarty tribunal.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: It is also the party that destroyed its own financial records. The information it failed to give to the Moriarty tribunal was about a $50,000 donation it received from the Norwegian telecommunications company, Telenor.