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Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: -----Deputy Kenny has become is glaringly obvious when he attempts to abuse situations, as he did on this occasion. Opposing or making critical comments about the suggestion that the Maastricht criteria should be applied is nonsense. The reaction is odder still when one considers Ireland's role in establishing the criteria. Ireland signed up for the Maastricht treaty and the main political...

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: Deputy Kenny's current position, as of last week, could not be further from the position his party accepted in the past, in particular when the euro was established. Let us remind ourselves that the criteria were finalised in December 1996 during an Irish Presidency. John Bruton played a major role in setting out those criteria and there was international recognition of the role played by...

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: Deputy, with all due respect, if you come in here an act like an ass, that is exactly the label you will gain.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: Deputy, with due respect------

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: With respect, I have no intention of withdrawing what I said.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: We are engaged in the usual nonsense here.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: With respect, I have tolerated interference.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: I am respecting the Chair.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: Provided I have the time to finish.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: Chair, read the record. I did not call the Deputy an ass. I said if a Deputy comes in here and acts like an ass, that is the appellation which will be attached.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: That is okay. There are equal insults. I respect the Chair. I did not call the Deputy an ass. I have been called a jackass and a worse ass, or whatever the appellation was. We should all calm down a little. If the Deputy allows me to finish my script he will have time to question each and every point I have made. I will listen to him respectfully. The criteria-----

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: I withdraw the remark.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: As I was saying before I was interrupted, Deputy Kenny's position as of last week could not be further from the position his party rightly and properly adopted in the past. I cannot understand why he has departed from that high standard. The suggestion which has been made by party spin doctors opposite for the past 48 hours that somehow or other the commentary by Sinn Féin, which was very...

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: That is true. It is not an isolated incident. Members of this House were very quick to notice what Deputy Kenny said. I draw the attention of the House to what Deputy Ó Caoláin said. He said he echoed the Fine Gael concerns and he politely told the House that he had forecast just a development when he was campaigning for a "No" vote in two referenda on the Lisbon treaty, that is, when...

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: I will take all of that. I thank the Acting Chairman. Outside the House, the leader of the Socialist Party, Joe Higgins, hit the nail on the head when he said in The Irish Times that either Deputy Kenny did not know what he was talking about during the Lisbon treaty referendum when he asked the people to vote "Yes" or he is deceiving them now. I would plump for the latter explanation...

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: We have all worked so hard-----

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: -----in that regard.

Euro Area Loan Facility Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2010)

Dick Roche: We all know Ireland needs Europe and the last thing we need to see is further instability in the eurozone and we all have a responsibility to work to ensure that does not happen. The measures put forward by the European Commission are sensible, necessary and timely but do not undermine any member state's sovereignty. They certainly cannot undermine our position on taxation which has treaty...

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

Dick Roche: Fine Gael has no confidence in Deputy Enda Kenny.

Confidence in the Taoiseach and the Government: Motion (15 Jun 2010)

Dick Roche: We remember its policy on stamp duty.