Results 1,281-1,300 of 12,487 for speaker:John O'Donoghue
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: There is no greater monument to their bankrupt leadership than the minor sanctionââ
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: ââimposed on Deputy Cuffe which was his replacement as environment spokesperson.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: These are the Members who hold themselves up as the protectors of our environment to the young and the impressionable.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: These are the Members who hold themselves out to the world as Ireland's moral guardians. These are the Members who would make Ireland greener.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: These are the Members who look well for the speck in other men's eyes but never for the mote in their own. Asking the Greens to protect our environment is the moral equivalent of putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: The Green Party is ethically two-faced.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: It is the latest "do as I say, not as I do" party on the political firmament.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: However, its political dexterity does not end there. It picks its enemies with the same political abandon as it chooses its friends.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: The same criterion of expediency is used in this process as was applied in the framing of tonight's motion.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: It matters little to the high priests of Irish politics that their latest best friends forever, Fine Gael and Labour, have major policies in stark contrast to their own.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: The Green Party is only happy to help Fine Gael and Labour on their way to a misty-eyed vision of a kaleidoscope government, accommodating a rattlebag of diametrically opposed policies. It matters little to themââ
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: It little matters to the Green Party that, in the words of Deputy Gormley, it has profound disagreements with Fine Gael. It is a matter of no consequenceââ
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: ââto the party that it does not agree with Fine Gael on economic or criminal justice policy.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: It is little more than an inconvenience to the white knights of fresh air that the putative Minister for Finance, Deputy Rabbitte, is numerically challenged. The famous witness at the tribunal said he gave Deputy Rabbitte â¬3,000 and only got â¬2,000 back.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: While the Labour and Green parties share few policies in common, there is considerable proximity in the consequences of their implementation.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: Their effective and economic and taxation policies will jointly drive jobs out of the country and undermine our prosperity.
- Political Donations and Planning: Motion (Resumed). (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: I for one am not disposed to accepting criticism on ethical fronts from Deputy "Chemical" Ciarán Cuffe and his friends in the Green Party.
- Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (22 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: I have not received representations from, nor had meetings with, representatives of the Open Republic Institute.
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Mar 2006)
John O'Donoghue: Star wars.
- Written Answers — Sports Capital Programme: Sports Capital Programme (28 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 on an annual basis. Applications for funding under the 2006 programme were invited through advertisements in the press on November 27 and 28 last. The...