Results 17,561-17,580 of 19,414 for speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Extraordinary Renditions. (7 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is relevant.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá an Dáil agus an Seanad ag teacht le chéile inniu chun bearna dháiríre reachtúil a líonadh, ní toisc bhreithiúnas na Cúirte Uachtaraí mar a dúirt an tAire níos luaithe, ach toisc gur theip ar an Rialtas seo agus ar Rialtais eile roimhe déileáil i gceart leis an rud a tharla an tseachtain seo caite agus ullmhú dó. Tá an milleán ar an Aire, an Rialtas agus chuile Rialtas ó...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Many people may not believe that, but I do. As a human, the Minister will have to suffer the consequences of his actions and failures.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The honourable action in this case is that the Minister resign. I admit that I am human and fallible, I make mistakes and I am not always correct.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not have the arrogance of the Minister for injustice and inequality.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: If the Minister were not so busy running around having cosy chats with private investigators, leaking documents to his buddy journalists, being involved in an anti-republican crusade——

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ——he may have had the time to look at an issue he highlighted in 1995. He might have dealt with it before the debacle we have today. The Minister must resign if he has an ounce of humility or decency with regard to his action or inaction.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I also question the suitability of the Taoiseach to continue in office. When confronted with the biggest legal crisis facing our society for many decades, he has left the country in the hands of an incompetent Minister. He has left the Minister to address the issue. That is incompetence and calls the judgment of the Taoiseach into question. A Aire, bí onórach agus éirigh as an phost anois.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister of State should ask the Minister to do it. He would find out for him.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister did so in 1995.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Mr. C was charged.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister was in position at the time when Mr. C was charged.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Except you——

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In 2001——

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Nobody is asking for it to be weakened.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Nobody said that.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is what he thinks, but obviously he is not.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister should calm down before he has a heart attack.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister, Deputy O'Donoghue, is even more arrogant than the Minister, Deputy McDowell.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is hard to understand the Minister's dream.