Results 56,781-56,800 of 74,100 for speaker:Bernard Durkan

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Absolutely.

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: The Deputy's colleagues created this. Why look to us for help now?

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: The national interest would be close to the Deputy's heart all right. She must be joking me.

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: "Come into my parlour" said the spider to the fly.

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Join the mud bath.

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: It would be wrong to admit it.

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Only four. I am sure I can extend that number by one, with the goodness of the Acting Chairman's heart.

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: I will need one or two more.

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Four minutes is a very limited time in which to address the current economic crisis. It is the single biggest issue to face the country since the foundation of the State, yet we have three or four minutes to address it. It is a bit of a laugh. We have heard many speakers on the other side of the House state this is a global problem. Some 90% of the problem we are experiencing was created...

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: The reason the Government is discovering on a daily basis that new issues about which it has not heard are appearing over the horizon is simply that the full impact of the global crisis has not been felt in Ireland yet. What we are experiencing is the effect of what was done by the Government. Despite all of the lectures from the other side of the House, before the rainbow Government left...

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: The Government should wake up. The Deputy's party has been in government for the past two years, as both she and the Green Party should recognise. The Fianna Fáil Party has been in government for the past ten years non-stop.

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: What is going on, Acting Chairman? You should initiate an investigation to discover what is happening on the other side of the House. The Government seems to be bereft of imagination or a willingness to accept responsibility for anything, except good news. Who is to blame? Everybody is to blame, except the Government — that is the attitude. Even the media are picking up on this. The...

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: The Government stalwarts are now quoting on a regular basis the words of Adlai Stevenson, "No gain without pain" and stating that tough decisions have to be taken. We know that; we have heard it often enough. While we accept tough decisions need to be taken, the correct decisions must be taken.

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: The Government has not made one correct decision since taking up office. Not one correct decision was taken. Everything the Government has done was a disaster. The Government has behaved like a lunatic in a china shop with a sledge hammer slashing all around it and cutting everything while stating we must endure pain. There will be pain for the Government if it continues like that. The...

Pre-Budget Statements (Resumed) (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: I could surpass anybody on that side of the House.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Legislation on estate management companies has been promised for some time and has been referred to by the Taoiseach and Tánaiste in the House. Has agreement been reached on the heads of a Bill? Are the provisions likely to be introduced, as has been indicated to the House, in a single Bill sponsored by one Minister?

Order of Business (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: I am getting worried. This must be the longest drafting in history because we have been promised this Bill for the past couple of years.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: As we speak, severe hardship and anxiety have been perpetrated on unfortunate constituents who do not know what the outcome will be.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: With due respect, I ask the Taoiseach that instead of promising the legislation he should bring it into the House so we can consider it. I have raised the issue of organised crime several times before, as has Deputy Charles Flanagan and other Members of the House. Organised crime in this country has clearly got out of hand. There is a series of proposed legislation on the list, none of...

Order of Business (25 Mar 2009)

Bernard Durkan: ——arms to execute people in other jurisdictions. There is evidence to that effect.