Results 4,121-4,140 of 7,278 for speaker:Dick Roche

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: Members should get real.

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: I made no suggestion that the Deputy was involved in criminal activity. However, he was very selective. Let us get on with the issues.

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: I have not made the point that there were any criminal acts. I will say it again here——

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: The Government, since it was first elected——

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: I did not do that.

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: No I did not.

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: Since the Government was elected in 1997——

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: Since the Government was elected in 1997, it has done more to tackle corruption than any Government since the foundation of the State. First, it has established tribunals to investigate planning corruption and payments to politicians.

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: Second, it has improved the transparency of the planning system. Third, it has introduced a new regime of ethics in local government. Fourth, it established the Standards in Public Office Commission. Fifth, it introduced new controls over political donations and finally, it modernised the legislation governing corruption. In that context, the motion tabled by the Green Party and supported,...

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: The bizarre proposition made by the Deputy opposite, that somehow or other, voting for a section 4 motion, something which I tended not to do, automatically labels the Tánaiste as being in some way improper, is extraordinary.

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: That particular section of law is part and parcel of the democratic law of the land. The vast majority of people from all political parties in this State have nothing to do with hypocrisy or corruption and have served with great integrity. By drawing this broad stroke across all political parties, the Green Party does politics a disservice.

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: Through a mixture of innuendo, allegation and conspiracy theory, they would have us believe that our planning system is corrupt and inefficient, when by any international standard it is open, transparent and effective. Indeed, the Green Party has some brass neck to preach about the planning process. This is the same party that regularly supports professional protesters who have scant regard...

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: In my constituency a Green Party councillor praised these self-styled eco-warriors, who were a completely unrepresentative and unelected group, as witnesses for democracy. The Irish planning process has continually been held to ransom by these same protestors. They deliberately conflate a range of important issues in a failed attempt to attack the genuine achievements of the Government in...

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: What we have before us is yet another demonstration that the Green Party is incapable of adopting reasoned and realistic policies based on what is achievable in a complex modern society, and remains wedded to rhetoric and simplistic solutions.

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: The Government has no objections to the sentiment of the Fine Gael amendment. However, the Government has put down its own constructive amendment, outlining what has been done to root out corruption, and we consider that this is a more positive approach. We will be pressing our amendment. I have no intention of engaging with the Green Party in fruitless discussion or argument concerning...

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: The bottom line is that the tribunal was established by the Oireachtas to investigate acts of planning corruption and it continues its work in public hearings.

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: I made the point earlier.

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: I made it earlier and it caused the Deputy some offence.

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: So I left it out.

Political Donations and Planning: Motion. (21 Mar 2006)

Dick Roche: I can, I will explain it if you give me time.