Results 1,081-1,100 of 1,031,143 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:John Brady) in 'Committee meetings'

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Rory O'Hanlon: Please allow the Taoiseach to continue without interruption, please.

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Bertie Ahern: Fianna Fáil took these matters seriously even if others did not. We have, at all times and in all ways, assisted the tribunal and will continue to assist it in uncovering precisely who received the cheque and for what purposes. We have set up a detailed and expansive tribunal of inquiry. I have, at all times, assisted it in every way I possibly could. What I will not do and have not done is...

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply but he did not respond to one of my key questions.

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Bertie Ahern: I am sorry about that.

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Did former Commissioner and Minister, Pádraig Flynn, respond substantively to the questions posed by the former Fianna Fáil general secretary, Mr. Martin Macken? Has that response been received? Were the questions properly answered and explained by former Minister Flynn? Does the Taoiseach have an estimate, or an approximation, of the sums, in terms of donations, ostensibly given to Fianna...

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Cecilia Keaveney: One would need psychic powers to know that.

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It must be a substantial sum of money. The £50,000 of which we are speaking was paid some years ago. That is, in today's terms, a substantial sum. On the statement made this week that the Fianna Fáil ethics committee will address the issue concerning Deputy Cooper-Flynn, is this the first time that committee has addressed this matter and all that swirls around it?

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Bertie Ahern: I thought I had answered the Deputy's question but I will do so again. Pádraig Flynn did not comprehensively answer the issue but publicly stated at that time that he would address the matter within the tribunal. That is where the matter rested during the past five years plus, since these matters came to light. While I am not answerable to this House on matters relating to Fianna Fáil, I...

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Pádraic McCormack: Does the Taoiseach propose to give it back?

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Bertie Ahern: That High Court judgment was subsequently appealed and the party, under its rules of due process, allowed that position to await the tribunal proceedings.

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Olwyn Enright: The appeal does not change the judgment.

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Bertie Ahern: The party's rule on the code of ethics is that the party's committee——

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Bernard Allen: The judgment remains the same. That is rubbish.

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Bertie Ahern: ——cannot make——

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Rory O'Hanlon: Deputy Allen, please allow the Taoiseach to continue without interruption.

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Olwyn Enright: The judgment stands.

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Dermot Ahern: Deputy Allen is a lawyer now.

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Bertie Ahern: A Cheann Comhairle, I am trying to answer questions.

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Rory O'Hanlon: Please allow the Taoiseach to continue without interruption.

Leaders' Questions. (10 Feb 2004)

Bertie Ahern: The party's committee cannot be an alternative investigator or tribunal. It can only deal with matters when duly established tribunals or inquiries actually deal with them. That is the party ruling as passed by the Ard-Fheis in 2000, as a matter of interest.