Results 5,781-5,800 of 7,278 for speaker:Dick Roche

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: I will let the Deputy away with it this time.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: Not on this. The Deputy should tell the truth.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: The Deputy should not make up stories.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: On this.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: The Deputy should stick to the truth. They did not lobby on this issue.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: They were in a minority.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: But they were in a minority.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: It is a fact, unfortunately.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: It is the opposite. It gives the local authorities the right. I will explain that.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: I thank Members for their contributions. I wish to make a couple of points specifically on the manner in which this matter was handled. Deputy Gilmore disagreed with me regarding how this matter came before the House and not before the joint committee. I suggest he has a word with the Labour Party Whip. I want to put the matter straight. The Government wanted this matter to be discussed at...

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: Deputy Gilmore knows he is not telling the truth.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: I am telling the truth and Deputy Gilmore is misleading the House.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: Deputy Gilmore made an allegation that was false.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: Deputy Gilmore is repeating his false allegation. The reality is that last week at the Whips meeting Deputy Boyle indicated he wanted this matter discussed in the House. He did not speak to me about that and Deputy Gilmore's Whip agreed with him. On the basis that there was no unanimity, it came before the House. The Deputy should not tell this House something that is a pack of——

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: The reality is that Deputy Gilmore has misinformed the House in this context.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: I was going to suggest what Deputy Gilmore said was probably inadvertent but obviously it was not, as he said himself, it was just a political charge. I am telling the House the truth. Deputy Boyle disagreed with it going to the committee, which he is entitled to do and Deputy Gilmore's party agreed with that. That is the reality. Deputy Gilmore appears to be besotted with conspiracy theories...

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: ——as his delusory meanderings in this regard have displaced all logic. Alternatively — I hope this is the case — he is a man who has spent far too much time in the sun without the benefit of his pit helmet.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: Whatever the explanation of Deputy Gilmore's wild-eyed delusions in this matter, the fact remains that the Government wanted to deal with this matter in an Oireachtas committee, not least to give Members from all sides of the House the opportunity to explore — as Deputy Catherine Murphy tried to do — their concerns on the issue.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: The reality is that he is guilty of misleading the House and making wild allegations.

Planning and Development Regulations: Motion (Resumed). (29 Jun 2005)

Dick Roche: I am sad that the propensity of the Opposition to seek to make a political football out of everything has now started to displace all logic. This has resulted in the worst manner of handling this issue. This matter could have been before a committee. I was anxious and willing to go before the committee. I wanted to go before the committee and was prepared to give this matter hours of debate...