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Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Mick Collins has long been a friend of mine.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: He is an engineer by profession and a very likeable and good person.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I am surprised Deputy Shortall does not know him because she knows where he is.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: He is in the local——

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: He has been in the same place where Deputy Shortall and I used to spend a fair bit of time.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The date was 11 October 1994.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: That is of no relevance.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I do not know the gentleman and I doubt that I have met him but——

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: ——I meet many people in my political life but the individual that Deputy Cowley mentioned is not a friend of mine.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I do not accept that I am under financial obligations to anybody. I do not believe that by accepting a loan or accepting the donation in Manchester that I am under any obligation. None of those people ever asked me for anything or put me under pressure for anything. They are friends.

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: I have carefully examined, scrutinised and taken full advice on both the governmental practice and the code of practice and I have given my position on that and the legal position. As I stated earlier, I accept it was an error and misjudgment but I do not accept that it is anything more than that, or that I have broken any standard that was in place then or now.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: It is proposed to take No. 2, the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006 — Order for Second Stage and Second Stage; and Private Members' business shall be No. 52, motion re report of the Comptroller and Auditor General for 2005.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The Government would welcome it if time could be made available to discuss the Green Paper.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Deputy Stagg has raising this repeatedly. There is much merit in the points he has made. The Bill is out for consultation under the e-consultation process. I do not know when that process ends.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: It is out for consultation for the next two months.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: This has proved to be a difficult and detailed Bill because it goes back over a long period involving all charitable bequests and donations. The heads of the Bill have been approved for some considerable time. It went for drafting. It is likely to be published just after Christmas, but it is hoped to have it done before Christmas.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: We hope to publish it this year. It is a large Bill and it will be a difficult Bill.

Order of Business (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: The Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill is not as long a Bill. The heads of that have been approved and it is listed for early 2007. On the Health Bill, the consultation process is under way and once that is finished, revised proposals will be submitted to Government. The heads of the original Bill had been approved since 7 March. That consultation process will really decide how long it will take,...

Order of Business (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: Yes. It is hoped that it will be published early in the new year.

Disclosures relating to the Mahon Tribunal: Statements (3 Oct 2006)

Bertie Ahern: There is a long period for detailed questions. For today, I will ignore the later political points made. I do not think any fair examination of this issue would accept that sleaze, cronyism, corruption, big business interests running the political process, conflicts of interests, patronage or any of the points made by the last few speakers are correct by any stretch of the imagination. I...