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Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: I would be quite happy to deal with the matter next week.

Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: I am sure the Taoiseach will inform us of the position.

Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: So the Taoiseach will inform us of the position.

Order of Business (17 Feb 2010)

Enda Kenny: I thank the Taoiseach.

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

Enda Kenny: This is a hangar six shot.

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

Enda Kenny: This is about one of the Taoiseach's Ministers, not about one of my party's members.

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

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach is scoring heavily now.

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

Enda Kenny: This speech was not written by the Taoiseach.

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

Enda Kenny: Yes, what is his point?

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

Enda Kenny: I will share time with Deputies Michael D'Arcy and Brian Hayes. This is not an untypical response from the Fianna Fáil Party. This is not about Deputy Willie O'Dea; it is about the standards employed by the Taoiseach and the Government.

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

Enda Kenny: The Taoiseach's predecessor eloquently stated from the seat in which the Taoiseach is sitting that Fianna Fáil's ethics are to get in here and stay in here at all costs. Those are the ethics of the party the Taoiseach leads.

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

Enda Kenny: The good people of Limerick have elected that Deputy for many years, as is their absolute right. However, he is not sitting over there just as a Deputy; he is sitting there as an appointed Cabinet Minister, an officer of the court and a constitutional seal of office holder. As such, standards in that office must be of the highest integrity at a time when politics is in a deep depression of...

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

Enda Kenny: It is not a case of a simple mistake.

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

Enda Kenny: The last time Deputy O'Dea was caught out on a tape was when he defended his position and his party's position to the taxi men of Limerick-----

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

Enda Kenny: -----only to understand when it was played back to him that what he said when he came out was different from what he said inside. The facts are these and the Minister from the Green Party should bear them in mind because I will quote him some of his words in a few minutes. The Minister, Deputy O'Dea, told an untruth about another person. It was not a political charge but an accusation that...

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

Enda Kenny: First he stated this was a mistake. If the Minister is so used to making allegations like this that he cannot remember one specific instance then the Cabinet and the Government really have a bigger problem. If the Minister, Deputy O'Dea believed what he told that journalist then he should have gone to the Garda Síochána and reported it in the first instance.

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

Enda Kenny: The notion that any normal human being can say to a journalist "That man runs a brothel" and then forget that he said it when part of it was in print in the newspaper the following day just beggars belief.

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

Enda Kenny: The second defence put forward was that both the slander and the false affidavit to the High Court were perpetrated by Willie O'Dea, private citizen, not Willie O'Dea, Minister. Invisible hairs are being split here. A belief in the capacity to separate private impropriety from public office now appears to be standard operating procedure for Fianna Fáil in Government. We heard precisely the...

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

Enda Kenny: He continued: ...not because we are particularly virtuous, but because strong ethical standards improve the quality of our democracy. We do it because we recognise that there are now three Governments in this country - the permanent Government, which is the civil service; the present Government, if you can call it that, consisting of the PDs and Fianna Fáil; and the real Government which are...

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

Enda Kenny: The former and current Ministers for Justice, Equality and Law Reform are defending this state of affairs around the Cabinet table.