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Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: Is there any lower the Minister can stoop?

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: On a point of order-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: The Ceann Comhairle will be familiar, from his legal practice many years ago, with the phrase res ipsa loquitur, which roughly translated means the thing speaks for itself.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: The Minister has eloquently described and portrayed the reason-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: -----those people should resign and be consigned to the history of government. They should just leave and give the people a chance.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: They should just leave and give the people a chance. They should not come into this House and demean it by engaging in political slapstick.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: The Minister eloquently displayed his incompetence and unsuitability for Government. We do not need to do the job, he did it all himself.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: I am not.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: When the people have lost all confidence in the Government.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: The Minister of State should have the courage of his convictions. If he thinks the people support the Government, he should have the courage to let them vote for him.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: It is a strain to stay silent.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: I hope the Acting Chairman gets danger money for having to listen to these people.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: Fianna Fáil staying in Government is a greater farce.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: The Minister of State should tell us what the Government has to offer.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: No one believes a word the Minister of State is saying about any of this.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: The Minister is supposed to be voting confidence in his own Government and he cannot give one reason anyone should have confidence in it.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: The Minister of State should give us two or three reasons someone should have confidence in the Government.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: The Minister of State cannot think of one reason, nor could the Minister, Deputy O'Dea.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: Did the Minister of State give a single reason anyone should vote confidence in the Government?

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Alan Shatter: Not a single reason.