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Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: I did not think I would see the day the Deputy would support such a motion. I am surprised.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: I would have thought Fine Gael would have supported me.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: I am looking at that at the moment.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: It is very difficult.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy knows well that this is nonsense.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: The Departments are already in line with the spatial strategy.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: The Defence Forces were decentralised long ago. The Deputy does not know what he is talking about.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy should tell his friends to stop peddling those drugs.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy is always preying on people's fears by talking such nonsense. That is all he is good for.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: The Deputy has some neck.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: Will the Deputy give me a break? He has some neck.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: If we were waiting for Deputy Morgan's crowd, we would be up to our necks in waste.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: I have no ideological position on that issue.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: Better to solve the problem than just talk about it.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "affirms its confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and commends the actions taken by the Minister to: — improve, and promote confidence in, the electoral process; — support sustainable development including the protection of the high quality of our...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: The motion gives Members an opportunity to examine the complete range of policies for which I have responsibility. I assure Deputies that I sincerely welcome the opportunity to debate the issues at length and in detail. I agree with the Green Party that at the core of this debate is a significant difference in policy and approach. It is the difference between taking action which makes a...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: ——to take the fight against Sellafield to the next level; and to do this in spite of the cynical, opportunistic and fundamentally flawed stance of the Green Party and its allies. The contrast with the Green Party could not be more stark. As it has demonstrated yet again tonight, the Green Party does not believe it has any responsibility to set out credible policy options. It does not...

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: It takes much effort to achieve that standing. As they wave their sunflowers in the air and congratulate themselves for being the guardians of all things worthy, they continue to refuse to make any constructive contribution to debate. Sanctimony, double standards and conspiracy theories form the core of their approach.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: Deputies can imagine the scale of the outcry we would hear from the Greens if I was found to have the investment policies of Deputy Cuffe.

Confidence in the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government: Motion. (30 Mar 2004)

Martin Cullen: Yes, and I am proud of it. It shows that democracy works.