Search for "we are where we are" speaker:Mary O'Rourke (KildareStreet.com)

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2006): Mary O'Rourke: ...falling. Senator Ã MurchÃº blamed the flawed leadership in America for the situation we are in and I agree with him that we must now focus on the future. As Ambassador Bruton said here yesterday, we are where we are, regardless of looking back and reflecting on those of us who spoke out so strongly at the time. The Senator said that the diplomats should take over from the hawks and that...

KildareStreet search is case-insensitive, and tries to match all the search terms within a document.
To exclude a word from your search, put a minus ("-") sign in front, for example to find documents containing the word "representation" but not the word "taxation":
representation -taxation
To search for an exact phrase, use quotes (""). For example to find only documents contain the exact phrase "Mahon Tribunal":
"mahon tribunal"
If you want to search for words only when they're used near each other in the text, use "NEAR". For example, to find documents containing the word "elephant" near the word "room":
elephant NEAR room
If the search phrase matches (part of) a TD or Senator's name, their own page will appear as the top result, but will also search speeches made by them too.
From a person's page, you have the option to search only their speeches.
Advanced Users: You can perform boolean searches, with brackets, AND, OR, and XOR. There are many prefixes you can use directly instead of the advanced search form, here's a selection:
- party:Lab
- department:Defence
- section:seanad OR section:wrans
- section:debates
- section:committees
- date:20120918
- 20080101..20080131
You can also add Kildarestreet to your web browser's search box.