Search for "we are where we are" speaker:Joe O'Toole (KildareStreet.com)

Seanad: Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Statements (5 Feb 2009): Joe O'Toole: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Social and Family Affairs, Deputy MÃ¡ire Hoctor, to the House. I will not get involved in a debate about who is to blame for all this. We are where we are and we need to find a solution to the problem. The Government's action, standing alone and unchanged, is unacceptable. I received a telephone call yesterday from a nurse who is married...
Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2004): Joe O'Toole: ...Finucane a minute ago could be put and answered in our presence. I sense the media is trying to catch someone out in the negotiations with questions about photographs. It does not work that way. We are where we are and I would like to ask questions here about the future and how we can make the process work. I want the size of the problem we face to be quantified. There was a perfect...

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