Dukes, Alan M.Wednesday, 19 July 1989 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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Order of Business.
Another broken promise.
It is the soft shoe shuffle.
On a point of order——
I would like to establish one thing from you, Sir. Is it the case, and is it the ruling of the Chair, that nothing the Government say outside the House about their legislative intentions may be quest...
The Chair has not answered my question. I put a direct question to the Chair about the ruling of the Chair.
Is the Chair saying that the Government can promise anything they like outside the House and that he will not allow us to take them to task and account for those promises in the House?
I want a reply to my normal question. When one seeks a reply to such a question at Question Time your response is that Question Time is not the time to discuss proposed legislation. That is a catch ...
European Council in Madrid: Statements.
At the conclusion of every European Council meeting the Presidency issues a very up-beat statement, the President of the Commission usually makes a somewhat less up-beat statement and occasionally goe...
——and what particular line was taken in relation to the European social charter. Have there been comprehensive discussions between the Departments most concerned about the content of that charter, fo...
I will read all the newspapers, but I would much prefer to hear what the Minister actually said, if he would say it in the House.
Because if that quotation is accurate, then I want to commend the Minister for at last having understood what the Single European Act is all about.
I beg your pardon, Sir. The Minister may be getting a bit exhausted by that type of questioning.
Not at all. I could go on for the rest of the day. We should get away from accepting the bland assurances that come out of the press machine of the European Council and have more direct talking abou...
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Meeting with British Prime Minister.
The Taoiseach has said that he would hold such a meeting if he felt it were either necessary or beneficial. I understand from that that it is the Taoiseach's view at the moment that such a meeting wou...
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Ministerial Membership of Local Authorities.
Unless he will be in office for only a very short time.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Devolved Government in Northern Ireland.
Would the Taoiseach not agree——
Would the Taoiseach not agree that the Official Unionist Party, the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland and the Social Democratic and Labour Party in Northern Ireland have all published their own views...
The record is that they have not.
It is a matter of record. They have not.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Government Progress.
That is not true.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Bord na Gaeilge.
What half?
You get a bird's eye view of it now and again.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Teilifís Trí Ghaeilge.
Tá sé ró-chasta leathmhilliún a chur ar fáil le linn toghcháin.
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