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Written Answers — International Students: International Students (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: Question 229: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the capacity that exists at third level for the expansion of the international student body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8386/10]

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: Of course, the Minister did, that made it worse.

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: He will pay the price all right.

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: What a performance.

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: Remember that, Willie?

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: He is blaming the Garda now.

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: Between yesterday's statement by the Minister for Defence and today's statement's by the Taoiseach, an important intervention was made. The Official Report will show that the Minister, Deputy Willie O'Dea, intervened while the leader of my party, Deputy Enda Kenny, was speaking. He indicated in the course of the debate that the Garda informed him about the alleged incident and the owners of...

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: Did the Minister forget that as well?

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: Is he now denying that in an intervention to the leader of my party, Deputy Kenny, he suggested that the information came from the Garda Síochána? Is that a fact?

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: Why exactly did he not put that in his affidavit?

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: Now it is the fault of the Garda Síochána. This is some turn-up for the books. If ever we had a political Pinocchio, it has to be the Minister. This is getting worse by the minute. It means that he mislead the House yesterday. He did not put that information on the record yesterday. Why not? Why did he blurt it out today to save his political backside when he is up against the...

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: That is his problem.

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: I wish to raise one other issue. The Minister made the original allegation on 10 March. On 14 April he signed a sworn affidavit to the courts. As a barrister, he is an officer of the court. He is a senior Cabinet Minister. That was four weeks later. It was not four months, years or decades. It was four weeks after he made the very serious allegations against the gentleman concerned....

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: Where is Deputy Mary Harney, the person who built her career on trying to smoke out low standards in the Fianna Fáil Party?

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: Does she support the concoction the Minister, Deputy O'Dea, gave to the House yesterday, of which the House has been given another version today? Sir, I put it to you that the House has no confidence in the Minister, Deputy O'Dea.

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: As Deputy Kenny said, this is a pattern of behaviour-----

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: -----over many years. He has been found out for the fraud that he is.

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: It is twisted all right.

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: For a day or so.

Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)

Brian Hayes: Stand up.