Kelly, John M.Friday, 29 June 1984 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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The Deputy has 12 minutes left. Let him outline one single policy.
That is not a policy.
Tell us your favourite policy.
Deputy Michael O'Kennedy made a similar statement in that regard.
God help us all if these are the policies of the Opposition.
This Government's work was predictably very hard and uphill. It could have been said before they took office that any government which took over at the end of 1982 would have a very difficult time. ...
Those are very solid achievements and the Government are entitled to claim credit for them. Over and above those achievements on the economic plane, they are entitled to credit for having devoted eno...
The Government are entitled to huge credit for the enormous amounts of time they spent on Northern Ireland in which opinion polls show to have a very low priority with the public in terms of their pe...
He said politics is the profession of hope. That was worthy of Joxer or some inhabitant of the back of the Abbey Theatre 60 years ago, designed for some of the people who were then being satirised, d...
Very well, I will lump all the Unionists together. When we are not worried about their opinions they do not bother us, but when we are worried about their opinions they are contemptible. The Unionis...
——and I have never pretended to be anything but a critic — I have never scratched his back or sucked up to him in any shape or form, I am not intimidated by him or impressed by him — I always thought ...
I am sorry if I have gone too far. I withdraw it. His performance on that occasion was primitive and bumptious. Though I have been in politics for more than 15 years in this building I can honestly...
Who would sign a report which would enable him to say that John Kelly and others would support something which he put such a gloss on that I would be ashamed to produce it anywhere north of the Boyne?
He went into the Reagan episode in the following way. He said it would be “unacceptable if we got only well-meaning platitudes from the President of America”. That would be unacceptable to the Duce....
He failed to oblige the Duce. He spectacularly failed to oblige him. If the Duce had been real Duce timber——
I have been abused by all types of names in the House, and the thing I will not forget about Deputy Haughey is that he has still left on the record his description of Deputy Cooney as a fascist. The ...
I am only giving a description which a former Senator gave of him. However, I do not wish to waste my few minutes and I will leave that be. I would imagine that a leader of dignity having been rebuff...
Where is the consistency there? I know that this is something which has probably drawn from me expressions which half an hour hence I may regret. There is no use in my apologising for that because ...
It is not about Deputy Haughey in particular but the section of the Irish people which he speaks for, and that is why I believe I am entitled to fault the judgment of the Taoiseach in setting out to t...
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