Results 661-680 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: This is extraordinary.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: Will the Minister say when this was?
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: The Government side voted it down.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: Will the Minister give the date again?
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: That is extraordinary.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: This day has been a long time coming. From the first priority parliamentary question tabled to the then Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy O'Donoghue, by Deputy Jim Higgins on 5 May 1999 to today, more than six years of deep distress and unimaginable anguish for many individual citizens let down by the State have elapsed. More than that, their own State and its agent, the...
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: Either the full details of the Carty report were known to him when he obfuscated and obstructed a sworn inquiry or he is so incompetent that he allowed the Garda authorities to conceal that from him and he came in here to face down the facts in the Dáil in ignorance.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: He is either incompetent or completely untrustworthy in terms of the information he has presented to this House. Those are the facts of it. The current Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform told us this morning that he had no knowledge as Attorney General of the details of the Carty report until January or February 2002.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: The complete report was not available to him. I presume the complete report was presented to the eminent person Shane Murphy once it was established at the end of 2001. Is it not quite unbelievable that volume of knowledge, the entire picture, was given to an independent person appointed by the Government but concealed from the law officer of the Government? That beggars belief. This is an...
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: I have digressed from what I wanted to say but I think I have earned some additional time. I want to go back to the heart of this matter. There are people who have suffered, who continued to suffer and who still feel we are exposing the truth like an onion, layer by layer. They feel there is now a rush to say there is an awfulness "out there" and we will close that chapter and move on. That...
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister never got the Carty report.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: When did the Minister get it?
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: This is incredible.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister voted it down.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister had the evidence in his Department; he sat on it.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister failed.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: That is a joke and an insult.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: This is hypocrisy.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: He is hanging the Minister out to dry slowly now.
- Morris Tribunal: Statements. (17 Jun 2005)
Brendan Howlin: The normal courtesy is that it would be circulated.