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Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Did he withdraw it?

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: The Minister's own junior Minister, Deputy Jimmy Devins, opposed it. The Minister should face reality.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Deputy Devins opposed it.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Where is the rehabilitation centre-----

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: He must have rolled over.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: It is no wonder that 400,000 people are unemployed

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: I apologise to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle but that is what those opposite believe.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Two of the female members of Cabinet were demoted today.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: "These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid." So wrote Roosevelt in the heat and heart of the great depression in the United States. While the United States is, as we know, a can do country with mottos such as "change you can believe in",...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: All I can say is that "Operation Transformation" this was not. As I was listening I thought I saw a ghost or two flit passed and look down not so fondly at the Taoiseach's head. I thought I might have seen Bertie walking along.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: When various transformations in Bertie's life went ahead who did we see coming down the stairs of the Dáil? Was it Mr. McNamara, that late great tzar of Irish building, who was calling the shots for Fianna Fáil on behalf of the developers and their friends in the banks? Did I see Seán Dunne, the person who went to the Queen and sessions in the United States as the key guest of the Irish...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: -----and now we have fiche bliain ag fás because we have a bit of FÁS for everybody in the Government.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: The responsibilities of the Minister of State, Deputy Dara Calleary, have widened. He is to be responsible for relations with the trade unions, undefined responsibilities at the Department of Finance, and responsibilities for public service reform. Had there been guts to the Taoiseach's reform of Government, one of the more redundant Departments, of which there are plenty of candidates but...

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: The Minister should read the research from UCC.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: The Minister should read the research.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: The Minister should read the research from UCC.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: The Minister was lucky.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: The Minister was lucky.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: He got out in time.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2010)

Joan Burton: Keep going.