Results 621-640 of 2,771 for speaker:Colm Brophy
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: Something Sinn Féin loves, as the Ceann Comhairle knows, is to have a question-and-answer session. Here is an opportunity for her to answer questions.
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: The Deputy has walked out anyway. I thank the Ceann Comhairle.
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: I will finish with these sentences. The public deserve to know about every aspect of this sorry affair. I ask Deputy McDonald to take the opportunity to reply. She needs to come clean about what happened.
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: Organised crime has to be tackled head-on at every single opportunity. There can be no let-up. Over the last few days, I have been contacted by so many people to outline the feeling of betrayal and anger they feel about Sinn Féin's-----
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: -----position in relation to Jonathan Dowdall. One man, John, who is an anti-drugs activist, now said he feels personally betrayed when he hears Sinn Féin's public representatives speaking about crime, drugs and how to tackle them. It is a party, as he said himself, that was willing to allow a violent criminal to be a public representative for its party. He went on to ask me, "Do they...
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: Yes, it is indeed.
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: I will come back to that. Thank you. I appreciate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, but I will continue. Did his constituency mentor and now party leader, Deputy Mary Lou McDonald, call to his home, on the Navan Road by the way, and persuade him to stay? Did Deputy McDonald pressurise Jonathan Dowdall to stay in her local organisation?
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: What actions did Mary Lou McDonald take-----
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: -----to ensure Dowdall remained on as a councillor?
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: I am. Deputy McDonald will be here in the House later. I am sure she will take the opportunity to answer questions-----
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: -----on what "total support", as reported by TheJournal.ie, did she provide to Dowdall to ensure he stayed in the party? Who are the party figures - this is particularly important - Dowdall had talks with to reach his decision to stay in Sinn Féin? Remember, all of this took when Sinn Féin's director of elections discussed the 2011 gun attack with Dowdall before he was elected to...
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: -----with Mary Lou McDonald's local organisation.
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: It stretches credibility to the limit to say he had no idea about-----
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: I am sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, but I beg to differ with you with the greatest of respect.
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: The most organised crime story we have had in recent days and weeks in our country is the crime story I am referring to. It is deeply regrettable that you would try to stop me raising these questions, because these questions are at the heart of where-----
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: -----not only organised crime-----
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: -----infiltrates our country, but how we should be willing to address it.
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: I think the questions-----
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: The questions I posed, and I will repeat it again, are at the heart of attitudes towards organised crime because organised crime is what we are talking about.
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Colm Brophy: We are talking about a gentleman who was involved in organised crime at the same time he was a public representative for a political party. We are talking about a leader of a political party who seeks high office in this country and who went out of her way to facilitate him remaining within her party. Indeed, she took no action, except to canvass for him in an election after, seemingly,...