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Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: My understanding is that any person making a sworn affidavit to the High Court must do so in the presence of a Commissioner for Oaths. The commissioner then reads over the affidavit to the person making it who will then be asked to either agree or disagree with its content. If one agrees with its content, one takes the Bible in one's right hand and swears to almighty God, or alternatively...

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The same rules of evidence must apply to everyone regardless of one's rank or position in Irish society.

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Minister wants us to examine his swearing a false affidavit only from the point where his barrister made an agreement with Councillor Quinlivan's barrister – an agreement duly reported to the court. Councillor Quinlivan's reasons for accepting an amount in damages and his costs in return for agreeing a settlement statement is entirely a matter for him. The issue that affects Deputy...

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Faced with incontrovertible evidence the Minister asks us to believe that he acknowledged his error. He forgot. How could be forget creeping around Limerick alleging a rival candidate was running a brothel?

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: How could anyone forget making such a charge?

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Would any other Member stoop to making such a charge in the first place, if it were untrue? Is it acceptable behaviour for any Member, whether a Minister or not, to use a political campaign to slander a rival candidate and to implicate him in particularly grubby criminal behaviour?

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Not only did Deputy O'Dea have no qualms about imputing criminal conduct to a political rival, he had no regard for the integrity of the journalist to whom he whispered his lies. Only when the journalist sought to defend his integrity by producing the tapes did the Minister remember his "mistake".

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The only explanation for Deputy O'Dea forgetting that he called a rival a brothel keeper is that it is a pretty commonplace charge for him to make. I am amazed that the Taoiseach should seek to retain in Cabinet a man who wilfully committed perjury. If this happened in the neighbouring jurisdiction, a Minister would not last until the end of the day. Deputy O'Dea is – as he is fond of...

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Why is that not an unfamiliar feeling? It is one thing for the Taoiseach not to take the Green Party seriously and he has them not just as passengers but as hitchhikers in Government.

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach should stop humiliating them. I felt embarrassed for the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources who the Taoiseach dragged into the House to say things he did not believe.

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: This is a disreputable chapter that will bring this House into disrepute if a majority in the House supports this kind of conduct by a Minister. What standards will apply in this House if a Minister can plead honest mistake because he supposedly forgot giving an interview connecting a political rival to brothel keeping? Deputy O'Dea is not just any Minister. He has political responsibility...

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: An allegation of having sworn a false affidavit would be a serious matter for any Minister. In the case of Deputy O'Dea the allegation is of such seriousness that it renders him unsuitable to hold the office he now occupies.

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Hear, hear.

Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Powers of Inquiry) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I propose to share time with Deputy Rabbitte.

Committees of the Houses of the Oireachtas (Powers of Inquiry) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I join in the words of congratulation to Deputy Rabbitte on bringing this reforming measure before the Dáil. We hear much commentary these days about the need to reform politics and, in particular, the need for the Dáil to reform its own practices and procedures and the way we do business. Deputy Rabbitte's Bill is an important reforming measure which would give the House the power of...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Before the Ceann Comhairle puts the question on the first proposition, I raise the fact that it contains, in effect, five proposals. I know the Ceann Comhairle will apply the rule that there should be only one contribution from each party in respect of that question. The problem is that because there are five elements to the proposition, it is possible that different members of political...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: If the Ceann Comhairle will bear with me, I did not intend for this to become acrimonious. There are a number of propositions, and I know Deputy Burton, on behalf of the Labour Party, will be opposing specifically the proposals for the financial resolutions. There is a separate proposal dealing with the allocation of time in dealing with the Finance Bill. The budget debate was truncated...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: She is in order.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: On a point of order, Deputy Burton rose to oppose No.1 on the Order of Business. She is entitled to that and she is entitled-----

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am sorry, a Cheann Comhairle. Almost from the moment that she began making her contribution, you started to interrupt. She is entitled to oppose No. 1. She is entitled, on behalf of the Labour Party, to state the reasons for opposing No. 1. She had not completed making her case for opposing it. With respect, I ask you to allow her to continue to explain her second reason for opposing...