Results 13,901-13,920 of 21,096 for speaker:Charles Flanagan
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: I am quite satisfied that in the circumstances surrounding this appointment the correct and proper procedures were employed from start to finish.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: I assume it is the current Taoiseach the Deputy is asking about.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: I want to deal with that question because this House is doing a great disservice to the Office of the President. I refer in particular to the Deputy who is laughing merrily at the back, Deputy Shortall.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: I want the House to be absolutely sure, and I want to refer to what the Taoiseach said here this morning, that is, that there was absolutely no attempt-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: -----on the part of the Taoiseach to instruct in any way Áras an Uachtaráin or the President. There was absolutely no contact from anybody in the Department of Justice and Equality with Áras an Uachtaráin. For Deputy Shortall, Deputy Breathnach or anybody to suggest there was an attempt on the part of the Government, at any level, to characterise the relationship between...
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: These are issues that strike at the heart of Cabinet confidentiality and I am not going to breach that doctrine. I am not going to act contrary to the Constitution. I say to Deputy Connolly what I said in my opening statement, namely that I am not in a position to go into any detail about who was in the room, who was not in the room, what was presented to those who were in the room, what...
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: I stand by the Constitution here. If this House decides after this debate or at any future date to change the Constitution, we know the process.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: I would like to address Deputy Shortall's outrageous allegation.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: May I answer that, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle?
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: There is no direction. There is no instruction or anything of that nature.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: It is most unfair, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, to allow Deputies to make allegations like that and not to allow an answer----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: Of course, but I merely ask that if an outrageous allegation has been made-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: I accept the Chair's ruling.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: -----and both of whom were present during the day when this matter was mentioned. I suggest to Deputy O'Brien, in fairness to the Deputies involved, this is an issue that perhaps consideration might be given to at a further-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: I will give the Deputy an answer. It is totally unfair in any form of due process to question me on the detail of an issue that was discussed between two Members of this House, the Taoiseach and the Leader of the Opposition, earlier today. I respectfully suggest, in the interests of due process and fairness, that the best people to whom further and more detailed questions might be addressed...
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: I was not there.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: Deputy McDonald does not like the answers.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: She persistently continues to interrupt in a way that ensures the process which the House has ordered to take place will not take place in an orderly manner. That suits her agenda. It suits an agenda to destabilise, obfuscate and cloud.
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: On the matter of expressions of interest-----
- Appointment to the Judiciary Nomination Procedure: Statements (21 Jun 2017)
Charles Flanagan: Because the matter did not arise.