Results 7,561-7,580 of 12,593 for speaker:Willie O'Dea
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: Deputy Kenny reminds me of the famous quotation about Henry James - that he has a mind so fine that no idea could violate it.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: In Deputy Kenny's case, he has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: What we are witnessing since the departure of the former Deputy George Lee back to a career in television is the opening performance of the new improved "Enda Kenny Show". It is more a sitcom than a documentary and like most sitcoms it is destined to be cancelled early in the season. I do not expect any of the Deputies opposite in the Fine Gael Party-----
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: It would not be reasonable to expect them to vote confidence in me when they find it so hard to vote confidence in their own leader.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: Let me remind the House of the actual and verifiable facts that I placed on the record of the House last night. The settlement that was agreed before the High Court and which was finalised in proceedings of 21 December contained this key paragraph: "It is not suggested by Mr. Quinlivan that Mr. O'Dea acted other than innocently in making such denial and he accepts that there was no intention...
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: I have openly and fully acknowledged that my recollection of some of what I said in the interview with the journalist as described in my original affidavit was mistaken. I corrected the mistake on the day, not four months later. On the day I realised it, I corrected the mistake. I admitted the mistake and apologised for it. I have never denied saying what was reported in the The Limerick...
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: To put it in context, the remarks concerned an apartment owned by Brixton prison escapee Nessan Quinlivan - who shot his way out of Brixton prison-----
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: -----in the company of one of Jerry McCabe's murderers - which was being used as a brothel.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: Nessan Quinlivan is a brother of councillor Maurice Quinlivan.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: The information I had at the time from good sources was that Mr. Maurice Quinlivan was involved as well.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: That information was incorrect.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: When I later saw a transcript of the interview in which I had, contrary to my recollection, gone further than what had been quoted in the newspaper-----
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: -----and having seen the transcript, I took the initiative. I went to my solicitor and immediately corrected my affidavit. I was not forced or pressed to do this. I did so of my own volition as I then knew that my original affidavit was incorrect.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: I was not.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: I am dealing with this. I was not, as Fine Gael has asserted, found out by the production of a tape recording of my interview. Its members have been insinuating that as if the interview had been recorded without my knowledge. I knew it was being recorded as there was a cassette recorder clearly in front of me.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: It is not the slightest bit credible that I would swear an incorrect-----
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: ------affidavit of a conversation that I knew had been taped when there was a tape in existence in the possession of a journalist. I ask this question of the media-----
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: -----a minority of whom have been putting out comment masquerading as fact. There is a witness to the interview, namely, the journalist concerned. Why has he not been asked whether I knew the interview was being recorded? Has anybody bothered to ask the journalist who did the interview to see if a tape suddenly appeared or if I knew that the interview was being recorded?
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: The facts do not suit.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: I am not answering any questions. I declared the error.