Results 901-920 of 1,019 for speaker:P J Sheehan

Business of Dáil (10 Jun 2010)

P J Sheehan: What about Anglo Irish Bank?

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

P J Sheehan: Blame those in the Galway tent.

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

P J Sheehan: Most of the Taoiseach's predecessors as Minister for Finance were from Fianna Fáil.

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

P J Sheehan: What about the involvement of those in the Galway tent?

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

P J Sheehan: When will the Taoiseach go back to the electorate?

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

P J Sheehan: Hear, hear.

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

P J Sheehan: The wailing wall.

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

P J Sheehan: If the Minister of State is so convinced of-----

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

P J Sheehan: I rise tonight to state that I have no confidence in the Taoiseach or his tired, stale and incompetent Government. I wished to address the ladies and gentlemen of the Government but there are no ladies present.

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

P J Sheehan: There are no ladies present on the Government side. It is time for the Government to change the team captain.

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

P J Sheehan: I have served the people of south-west Cork in politics in this House for more than 25 years. I am a realist and I know we do not have the numbers on this side of the House to force a change but the people opposite have that choice tonight. If it does not happen today, it will happen very soon. The Government has bankrupted the State and mortgaged its people for decades to come. It has...

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

P J Sheehan: I will deal with him. This man, the Taoiseach, who sailed on a high tide, now finds himself on the rocks by taking every shortcut around the map. He sailed with the encouragement of dinner friends from the banks and his so-called friends also dined under the canvas of the Galway tent and built towers in Babel on every mucky site they could get their grubby hands on.

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

P J Sheehan: There are over 20 former Ministers and Ministers of State who have been retired or downsized during the life of this Government.

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

P J Sheehan: It is a tired, stale and incompetent Government which has run out of lifebelts and is using the deck planks to keep the engines running in a forlorn hope that one day it may reach landfall. God help us. The Government's policies of supporting the speculators and bankers in the Galway tent have failed with catastrophic consequences for every man, woman and child in this country. Has the...

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

P J Sheehan: I listened to him and admired him, although his own party did not.

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

P J Sheehan: The Government should act patriotically and fall on its sword. It is time it did so.

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

P J Sheehan: The Taoiseach might listen to the voice of his immediate predecessor when he spoke of those who forecast this sorry day. If the Government is to show any patriotism for this country, it should go now and have an immediate general election.

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

P J Sheehan: What did it do with the boom?

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

P J Sheehan: The Galway tent has exploded.

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

P J Sheehan: What was wrong with that?