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

Joan Burton: In the view of most people who understand ordinary language, not senior counsel such as the Minister or the Minister for Finance, that was a lie, an untruth or a misstatement on oath and not a mistake. People have been taught from a young age about making a statement under oath. One barrister and two solicitors are sitting on the Government benches and, given all their extensive legal...

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

Joan Burton: It is even more serious when it is done by a Government Minister who is also an officer of the court.

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

Joan Burton: Since Fianna Fáil returned to power in 2007, the economy has been destroyed and 60,000 people, most of them young, have emigrated. What are those young people who are left in the country, perhaps still in school, supposed to think about the standards of a Dáil in which a Minister can act as this Minister has done? Everybody can make a mistake in life.

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

Joan Burton: Everyone can make a statement that is misunderstood or wrongly taken up. That is why I wanted to read out what the Minister said to the journalist and what he then said in his affidavit. The commentary he made last night was along the lines of "I made an error, but I 'fessed up and apologised". Most people understand and appreciate that. However, given the kind of politician he has been...

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

Joan Burton: We understand that among Ministers in the Cabinet, the Minister for Defence is probably one of the more competent performers. I ask him not to try to tell us that his affidavit-----

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

Joan Burton: -----was some kind of misstatement. It was not. It was in fact a conscious action on his part-----

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

Joan Burton: -----to have the request for the injunction thrown out. We must bear in mind what was suggested by the Minister, Deputy Ryan, in his statement, although it is hard to hear a statement when the person making it has a big peg on his nose. From what I heard of the statement he read out at a gabble, he was suggesting that the fact that the settlement subsequently came before a judge was an...

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

Joan Burton: This is what happened years ago in places such as New Hampshire.

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

Joan Burton: This is what the Americans used to call a particular type of politics which I will not name here.

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

Joan Burton: In the United Kingdom, two senior politicians - Lord Archer and Jonathan Aitken - actually went to jail for perjury before a court. It was a different issue, but the point is none the less valid. In most jurisdictions an action of this kind by a serving senior Minister - in this case, one who has a responsibility, together with the President, for our Defence Forces - would be treated...

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

Joan Burton: His behaviour does, unfortunately, merit a vote of no confidence. It is shameful for the Green Party to support this action by the Minister, thereby saying to the children of Ireland that this type of behaviour is all right.

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

Joan Burton: This is turning into the comedy club.

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

Joan Burton: I wish to share time with Deputy Joanna Tuffy. The Ceann Comhairle might tell me when five minutes have elapsed. Anyone who is elected to this House as one of 166 representatives continually feels it is an honour and a privilege to be asked by citizens to be their representative in the Dáil. However, what has been lost on the Government, particularly the Fianna Fáil element of the...

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

Joan Burton: -----a way to get over the Abbeylara problem. He has provided an elegant solution to the problem, which will withstand legal challenge. If it does not withstand legal challenge, we need a referendum on this issue because, for the sake of all the people who are now unemployed, those whose incomes have been reduced or halved and social welfare recipients, we must restore to this country the...

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: There is no debate.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: I want to comment on them.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: On a point of order.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: I oppose No.1 on the Order of Business in respect of the financial resolutions and the Revised Estimates. The reason I do this is that on Saturday-----

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: I am entitled to do this.

Order of Business (18 Feb 2010)

Joan Burton: I oppose-----