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Election of Leas-Cheann Comhairle (26 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: Tell me, under what rule——

Election of Leas-Cheann Comhairle (26 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: Quote the Standing Order.

Suspension of Member (26 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: When you quote the Standing Order, I will then leave the House.

Suspension of Member (26 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: I will not leave the House now.

Suspension of Member (26 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: That is fine, a Cheann Comhairle.

Suspension of Member (26 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: I will leave the House. The Ceann Comhairle already named a Member of this House today three times and did not ask that Member to leave the House. He did not quote to me the Standing Order he used in respect of the imposition of the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I will leave this House under protest on the basis that if the Ceann Comhairle continues in the way in which he has been continuing,...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: Stand up.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: Tell us.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: I congratulate the Ceann Comhairle and the Government. I would have liked if the Green Party members were colleagues of Fine Gael but that did not happen.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: Will the Deputy keep quiet and have a bit of manners, something he has not had for a long time.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: I address my remarks to the Green Party and particularly to Fianna Fáil.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: I see my good friend, the Minister from Galway, who with Deputy Brady and all the Fianna Fáil Ministers and backbenchers, told the people that if Fine Gael, the Green Party and the Labour Party went into government, rural Ireland would be destroyed; there would be no farming, no planning, no rural Ireland.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: I did not say that, it was said by Fianna Fáil members. Deputy Brady made a big statement which was reported in the Irish Independent and on INN. He is a big farmer and when he brings his pedigree bulls to the mart he will have to put shoes on the cattle because they will not want them to dirty the grass. People will have to bring the thing they use to pick up the dog poo because the...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: You should be quiet. We had decentralisation in your constituency. We decentralised him and he is staying down there. You destroyed him with 19,000 votes. I like Deputy Harney very much as a person. However, I cannot understand her leading the Progressive Democrats into Government again when they were destroyed by the people, who rejected them. Although they did not want them in...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: Some of his colleagues believe they won the election.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: It could not be up yet. Deputy Finian McGrath, the Independent——

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: He will be gone soon. Deputy Finian McGrath appeared on RTE with a big envelope on which he had his name and signature——

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: He said there would be no Shannon stopover. Next he came out of the Taoiseach's office with his signature on the deal he got.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (14 Jun 2007)

Michael Ring: Which of them was the forgery? Both of them could not be right.

Written Answers — Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme: Nursing Homes Repayment Scheme (26 Apr 2007)

Michael Ring: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a refund under the health repayment scheme. [15753/07]