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- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: It was not discovered or uncovered by anybody else. I saw my own mistake.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: Am I going to be allowed to make my statement?
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: This is a motion of confidence in me. Will I be allowed make my statement without interruption?
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: I declared the error. It was not discovered or uncovered by anyone else. I saw my own mistake - I brought it to the attention of others. I admitted my error and I paid the price.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: Now Fine Gael wants me to pay a double price. It wants to remove me form office for openly admitting, owning up and remedying a mistake I made to the satisfaction of the aggrieved party.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: If Fine Gael and Deputy Kenny's idea of standards, judgment and ethics is to punish those who admit honest mistakes, then that is one more reason many decent and law abiding people who should fear the prospect of Enda Kenny ever becoming Taoiseach.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: As I pointed out last night, evidence and testimony-----
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: Is the Cheann Comhairle-----
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: As I pointed out last night, evidence and testimony is regularly corrected in courts without allegations and assertions of lying and perjury being levelled.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: People in all walks of life have been obliged to correct testimony whether in written and oral form. However, there is a principle that he who comes looking for justice should come with clean hands. How clean are Fine Gael's hands when it comes to owning up to its mistakes?
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: Let us remember that this is the same Fine Gael party that deliberately suppressed a document from the Moriarty tribunal.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: It is also the party that destroyed its own financial records. The information it failed to give to the Moriarty tribunal was about a $50,000 donation it received from the Norwegian telecommunications company, Telenor.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: Fine Gael's general secretary said that the party had decided not to report the donation to the Moriarty tribunal - and note the word "decided" -----
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: -----because it would have been "politically disastrous", although he attempted afterwards to take back the words "politically disastrous".
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: He said that he feared that if the donation was revealed, a connection might be made between Fine Gael and the granting of a mobile telephone licence to Esat Digifone, about which we will discover an awful lot more shortly.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: The Fine Gael leader at the time of the donation, Mr. John Bruton, brushed the matter aside with the extraordinary excuse that he probably had not informed himself as fully as he should have about the matter. It is all right for him to make a mistake and at the time and since then Deputy Kenny------
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: It is called free speech. I know the Blueshirts do not have much of a concept of it but it is called free speech.
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: The Fine Gael Leader-----
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: Does the Deputy believe in free speech?
- Confidence in Minister for Defence: Motion (17 Feb 2010)
Willie O'Dea: He might let me make my statement during the next few minutes. How he can call himself a democrat is beyond me.