Corry, Martin JohnWednesday, 16 November 1966 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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When I went home last weekend, I was asked what the dickens we were doing here in this House on Thursday and Friday, and again this week. The Taoiseach was elected by what we have been told are the ...
Yes.
I am only regretting, in that regard, that we had no opportunity of having Deputy Dillon as Taoiseach. If Deputy Cosgrave had been elected Taoiseach last week, I presume the alternative to the appoint...
Deputy Sweetman will be remembered in history always as the Minister who put a tax on curling pins as the last resort before they ran out. I have a picture in my mind always of the unfortunate positi...
A Minister for Finance who got a fair chance as Minister for Finance and who got a clear majority in this House, chucked up the sponge and cleared out after three years of office out of five because h...
Deputy Coughlan is telling the truth. He would certainly look after his own house first. There is no doubt about it. Now that is what has been going on here for the past three days. Deputy Haughey ...
In deference to Deputy Coughlan, I will not say any more. I am offering him a Ministry some time.
The Deputy can tell them he was promoted. Take the position of Minister for Local Government. We have had Ministers for Local Government before and I do not think they covered themselves with glory, ...
That is the alternative we have. Would we exchange Deputy Neil Blaney for Deputy James Dillon as Minister for Agriculture? Would we prefer the Deputy who covered himself with glory here by saying the...
He has come a long way since.
He afterwards joined the Fine Gael Party and his imperialist ideas were so strong that even the Fine Gael Party had to tell him to get out.
The Deputy is only a kid in this House. Let him go and look at the Official Report and read what Deputy MacEoin had to say about it.
These are the gentlemen who were here with the cloak and dagger and the tomahawk last week.
They are over there now thanking God there is no danger of a general election because, if there were, they would be missing.
I will have a gamble on the by-election now. Fine Gael will not be even second in Waterford. I am sorry for poor Deputy Kyne because his seat will be shaken, but I believe Labour will be second and ...
I am giving my honest opinion of how they will go.
Deputy Flanagan spoke here for 7½ hours so that poor Deputy John A. Costello would not have to walk out of here as a defeated Taoiseach and Deputy Flanagan was not told he was out of order. He did a ...
I have here, if you want it, the election address of the Deputy's comrade in the Front Bench, a Deputy T.J. Fitzpatrick (Cavan), in which he said that the first thing they would do when they come back...
When I hear Deputies over there moaning and complaining —we have one bunch of them moaning about the closed doors and the people gone away and another group of them demanding more houses—I wonder whic...
The Deputy is one of the few. Deputy O.J. Flanagan did not get up here in this House, or in his constituency, to advocate the closing down of industries.
Well, his partner in misfortune over there, Deputy T.J. Fitzpatrick (Cavan) did; that is the difference between the two of them. We cannot find out which of them has the right policy or what policy th...
He did. I read out his election address in this House.
The Ceann Comhairle would be nailing me then, but those are facts. As a matter of fact, our industries are working out so well that soon we will be looking, in my constituency anyway, for any sick fe...
Sure, you are opposed to it. Then Deputy O.J. Flanagan had better get a hold of Deputy T.J. Fitzpatrick (Cavan) and put some sense into him.
Deputy O.J. Flanagan is preaching one thing and Deputy T.J. Fitzpatrick (Cavan) is preaching the opposite. We want to know which of them has the Fine Gael policy. Deputy O.J. Flanagan got up the oth...
The Deputy is in the wrong ship; he should not be over there at all.
I cannot help it.
I am certainly entitled to use a speech made in this House within the past fortnight by another Deputy.
But that is why we have at present a shortage of housing—the people are working, getting married, rearing families and looking for homes for them. Next to finding employment, the working man is entit...
He will.
We will be listening to the Deputy before we depart, and we will remind him of that. That is the way I take them. I examine them on their deeds or misdeeds, as the case may be. I judge them by the ...
It could not be worse. There was not an animal sold.
If the Deputy would look after the three heads of cabbage and the furze bush in Donegal, he would be doing a better day's work. He should be more concerned with Donegal.
However, I did my job in getting my candidate elected and the then Minister for Agriculture listened very carefully to what I said. The next thing was all the people started to move out from the fair,...
I had to assure Deputy Oliver Flanagan a while ago that my personal opinion is that in both constituencies Labour will come second and Fine Gael a very bad last.
Leave him alone, Sir. He might make a profit on the three heads of cabbage and the furze bush. The last three days in the House have been wasted. There was an endeavour to get out a picture to the ne...
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