Results 37,581-37,600 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: Absolutely.
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: Incorrectly floating in the public sphere. People who want to get their hands on power are responsible for many of these suggestions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: There is no doubt about it. I am nearly ready to burst into tears.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: Did the Deputy espouse that when he was in government?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy never pursued anything.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: Absolutely.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy is the one who famously started it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: I am sorry, but there is only so much of this nonsense to which I can listen.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: I am thinking of doing that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy is all wrong.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: Appalling.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: The Deputy's Government signed up to the property tax.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: Deputy Martin was spectacular in his silence.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: Correct.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: It is some very serious issue-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: No, they do not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: I listened with interest to the exchanges. As one who has spent some time as Opposition Chief Whip and assistant Whip and who attended Whips meetings in Government and afterwards, there appears to be a conflict as to where the House should go now. Consideration might be given to the fact that there are quite a number of Government backbenchers who do not get the same airing in the current...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: -----to such an extent that on one occasion I had to refer to the person who invented the guillotine. I will not go into that today. If it is recognised that the job of parliament is to debate and that it is the job of government to propose, in any reform that takes place recognition must be given to both.
- Other Questions: Post Office Network (11 Mar 2014)
Bernard Durkan: My apologies for not being present from the beginning of the Minister's reply, although I heard it from a distance.