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- Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (21 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: The national lottery-funded sports capital programme, which is administered by my Department, allocates funding to sporting and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. The programme is advertised annually. Applications for funding under the 2006 programme were invited through advertisements in the press on 27 and 28 November last. The closing date...
- Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (21 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: The national lottery-funded sports capital programme, which is administered by my Department, allocates funding to sporting and community organisations at local, regional and national level throughout the country. The programme is advertised annually. Applications for funding under the 2006 programme were invited through advertisements in the press on 27 and 28 November last. The closing date...
- Leaders' Questions. (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: And the wrong tent.
- Leaders' Questions. (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: He is not so thin-skinned.
- National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: The horses and dogs get prize money.
- National Sports Campus Development Authority Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: If we adopted that logic, St. Patrick would never have come here in the first place.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: Motions such as this are of immense importance for several reasons. They allow the House to examine the Government's record in dealing with corruption and the abuse of public office. The Government, since its election in 1997, has introduced the most comprehensive package of reforms to tackle corruption and to ensure probity in public office and in the public service. It established a...
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: I hope it is made available to Members. The tribunal, having already issued four interim reports, is continuing its work in public hearings. The Government improved the transparency of the planning system. The Planning and Development Act 2000 extended rules relating to ethics for planning authority staff. It also introduced more opportunities for public consultation and scrutiny of both...
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: The party's members have built a number of political careers by constructing the illusion that Utopia waits if one grows enough carrots, pulls enough turnips and eats enough lettuce.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: Since entering the House, the Green Party has opposed every economic initiative undertaken by the Government. It has resolutely opposed every job creation measureââ
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: ââevery economic initiative and every inch of infrastructural development proposed.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: In place of the solid economic proposals initiated by the Government, the Green Party has proposed nothing other than woolly blather about eco-friendly initiatives. If its Members ever choose to leave their gilded retreats and engage with ordinary people who work everyday for the money they need every weekââ
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: ââthey will find that the produce of their eco-friendly initiatives will put neither food on the table nor heat in the house.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: A Government adopting any of the Green Party's stated initiatives in the curtailment of the national development plan would inevitably lead us to mass unemployment, economic stagnation and curtailment of essential services.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: The Green Party Members, who sit in the most exalted perch of the Dáil's moral tree, would return Ireland to the donkey and cart and paint a pig in the parlour image of a nation which boasts the most educated young population on earth.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: There is no greater testament to the paucity of their political integrity than the fact that one of the signatories to the motion referring to amnesia in others said he was unaware of his own share portfolio in corporate sludge for three years.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: There is no greater illustration of their political hypocrisy than their acceptance of Deputy Cuffe's explanation even though the value of the portfolio amounted to â¬3 million and fell to â¬1.3 million in more than 1,000 days.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: The Green Party Members are thin-skinned enough to throw it but not hard-skinned enough to take it.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: I will repeat what I have just said. There is no greater testament to the paucity of their political integrity than the fact that one of the signatories to this motion referring to amnesia in others said he was unaware of his own share portfolio in corporate sludge for three years.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: There is no greater illustration of their political hypocrisy than their acceptance of Deputy Cuffe's explanation, even though the value of the portfolio amounted to â¬3 million and fell to â¬1.3 million in more than 1,000 days.