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Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: ——on "The Pat Kenny Show" in June 1997, I stated: There will be no casino, no licence, no amendment to the Act. That is Fianna Fáil policy and that is the way it is.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: Fianna Fáil actively campaigned against the casino during the Dublin West by-election in 1996. The idea for a casino came from Bord Fáilte.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: The background to all this was the proposal to develop a national conference centre. The preferred site was identified at the RDS premises——

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: ——but there was a significant shortfall in the capital funding.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: That is on the website.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: As Deputy Quinn is asking a question, he met them as well and there was nothing wrong with that either.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: Deputy Quinn met the people as well.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: About what?

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: The dates are fixed by the tribunal. I do not determine them.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: The dates for the tribunal the last time I was up changed seven times. If Deputy Gilmore wants to know the latest date on the website he should check the website. I do not check the dates but I will be up before Christmas and it will not affect my job here. I was answering the question about the casino, but perhaps the Deputy does not want to hear it. I was not involved in anything other...

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: I have only two minutes.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: As I stated, the dates are on the website and they change regularly. The dates are the 20th and 21st but on the last——

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: I just answered it. Deputy Gilmore should stop interrupting and listen. I stated the dates. On the last occasion they changed six or seven times. I was to be there in June, it went to July and then early September, mid-September and late September. I do not control that. The dates in the new year on which I will appear will be a matter for the tribunal. I do not think I am answerable...

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: ——on when the learned gentlemen decide.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: I answered.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: I answered.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: Is Deputy Gilmore deaf as well as stupid? I answered 20 and 21 December but the Deputy keeps interfering.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: I do not know.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: I do not know.

Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2007)

Bertie Ahern: They did not tell me. They will tell me when I finish because that is what they do. If Deputy Gilmore was there explaining some of his past he would find out about it.