Results 601-620 of 1,981 for speaker:Conor Lenihan

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: ——as I have already given him this information, but for the benefit of other Deputies who may not have asked the question or been given an answer.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: Deputy Allen was given these figures last week.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: It is a most vexatious strategy on the Deputy's part and on the part of Fine Gael. The Deputy was given these figures last week but he has forgotten them again. It does not give me great hope for the kind of Government that Fine Gael is trying to form with the Labour Party that Deputies are forgetting the figures they were given a week ago.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: I will give the figures again. Deputy Allen referred to Development Co-operation Ireland——

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: ——but I remind him that it no longer exists. It is called Irish Aid, but the Deputy referred to Development Co-operation Ireland.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: Perhaps his memory is failing him in that respect as well.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: I have given the figures today and I will give them again now because the Deputy did not hear me last week or on the two previous occasions. Some 35 people within the development co-operation division, or Irish Aid as it is now called, have opted to go to Limerick.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: Some 35 people are willing to move.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: A further 16 people have opted to apply for positions in Limerick.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: The Deputy is hardly blaming me for Fine Gael's lack of imagination——

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: ——in coming up with new questions.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: It is not rubbish.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: It is a very truthful assertion.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: The Deputy is so bankrupt as an Opposition spokesman that he cannot come up with a new question.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: He is wasting taxpayers' money.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: These are very expensive questions to put down on the Order Paper.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: It takes many civil servants to answer them. The Deputy asked the same question last week that he is asking this week.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: He is wasting taxpayers' money, which is something he is always accusing the Government of doing. He is a perfect example of it.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: He asked the same questions last week and got the same answers.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: The same answers were honestly offered by me to the Deputy at a meeting of a Dáil committee. He just wants to waste taxpayers' money by repeating the question all the time.