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Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We have a situation whereby the outgoing chief executive and his smiled upon successor are at loggerheads. Both of them cannot be telling the truth. Clearly there is a major issue. I recognise that innocent situations can present in all our lives but it is stretching credibility to claim that the Taoiseach was involved in a social engagement with a key player who has been accused by his...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----of all that was unfolding in Anglo Irish Bank-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----at no point in the course of a long afternoon and evening spent together did these matters arise. This leads me to September 2008 and the evening when the Minister for Finance, Deputy Lenihan-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----presented his case-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----for the bank guarantee.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In response to questioning from this Deputy about whether he was in possession of critical information which he had not shared, he stated there was nothing else. I specifically asked whether we were being requested to buy a pig in a poke.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We learned subsequently that Bank of Ireland and AIB had been in touch with him on the eve of his case being put to us. That information was not shared in this Chamber.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It was not at the time.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is my position.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Taoiseach elaborate on the other invitees to his party?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Banking never came up at all.

State Boards (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the appointments he has made to State boards since November 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48355/10]

State Boards (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In October 2009, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy John Gormley, indicated that mechanisms would have to be found and put in place to ensure that the "right people" would be appointed to State boards. We did not have long to wait to get an idea of what he was actually talking about when he referred to "right people" because shortly afterwards we saw the...

State Boards (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: -----along with a raft of others favoured by the Taoiseach's party at that time. We have seen another set of appointments here in the dying weeks of this Government and yet there is no indication at all that the Minister, Deputy Gormley's comment of introducing mechanisms is in any way in the offing.

State Boards (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In fact, in the revised programme for Government the Taoiseach's party and the Green Party have clearly committed, under the heading "Enhancing Our Democracy and Public Services", to introduce on a legislative basis a more open and transparent system of appointment to State boards. The revised programme clearly states that the legislation "will outline a procedure for the publication of all...

State Boards (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: No. The publication today-----

State Boards (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is what I am addressing. Make no mistake, in the publication today by the Chief Whip of the so-called legislative work programme, or what is to cover for it over the remaining weeks of this Dáil, this commitment to ensure that there is a more transparent, more appropriate and legislatively underpinned process for appointment to State boards does not appear. It has gone clearly off the...

State Boards (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Just to-----

State Boards (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I have a short opportunity and I am entitled to a brief supplementary. Am I entitled to the same as every other Deputy?

State Boards (12 Jan 2011)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I assure the Ceann Comhairle the brevity issue is not a problem on my part, at least today. In the focus of the particular questions on appointments by him, would the Taoiseach respond on any vacancies that may present or are current in terms of State boards or agencies under his Department's aegis? Would he agree that the appropriate course of action is to leave them on hold until such time...