Danger Here

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Labour TD Alex White, top, and Sinn Féin’s Peadar Tóibín during Leaders’ Questions this morning

Labour TD and Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Alex White took Leaders’ Questions this morning.

During it, Sinn Féin’s Peadar Tóibín raised the issue of Siteserv.

Peadar Tóibín: “Are members of the Cabinet aware of any individual who was a shareholder of Siteserv who would have had access to IBRC information, around the sale of Siteserv, and who would have information around Irish Water’s Siteserv tender [for water meter installation].”

Minister Alex White  “It’s a classic tactic of Sinn Féin to level, to level allegations, which have no grounds, which he presents no grounds for, masquerading as a question, masquerading as a question, that is a classic tactic of the party. There is absolutely no basis. Now the answer, the answer to the question, the answer to the question.
I’m a member of the Cabinet, I certainly am not aware and I can only answer for myself but I just, I, I, I believe that the manner in which the deputy poses questions, a little like the way his party’s colleagues, including [Sinn Féin] Deputy [Mary Lou] McDonald operate in this house, make allegations without any foundation, leave them on the record and make no effort whatsoever to ensure that there’s any kind of a reasonable basis for what’s being said. And that means a leas ceann comhairle, that means a leas ceann comhairle, that the deputy’s [inaudible] cannot be taken seriously in relation to anything they say, anything they say whatsoever.”

Yikes.

Yesterday: Playing Dukes And Drakes

Meanwhile…

Independent TD Stephen Donnelly writes:

Every day, TDs submit something called ‘Topical Issues’. Four are picked for discussion in the Chamber. This week, due to the Government’s Party Political Broadcast, aka the Spring Economic Statement, topical issues were tabled for today only.

So Catherine Murphy TD and I tabled one on the potential conflict of interest involved in having KPMG investigate a sales process (SiteServ) which KPMG was involved in running, in a dead bank that KPMG was the auditor of. Oh yes.It wasn’t selected. But here are two of the four that were:

1. The status of the integration of the former Newbridge Credit Union into Permanent TSB.
2. Proposals to route construction traffic through Donabate town centre for the construction of the National Forensic Mental Hospital.

Both important issues for those involved, to be sure…but really I forget sometimes just how low the bar is set in Ireland….

Stephen Donnelly TD (Facebook)

Thanks Nevan Riley

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21 thoughts on “Danger Here

  1. Jonotti

    I can’t believe the Labour Party are now defending Denis O’Brien. It’s a new low for them. Well, not quite, but nearly.

  2. fmong

    he never said “no”, he got close..

    ” I certainly am not aware and I can only answer for myself but I just, I, I, I…”

    but he didn’t actually deny it…

  3. Panty Christ

    “I can only answer for myself” and that’s where it’s at now with this topic. It’s mé féin i gcoinne sinn féin

  4. ABM's Bloodied Underwear

    Thoroughly sick of Labour’s poo when it comes to answering questions in the Dáil. It’s an insult to the people of the country. I don’t expect much of anything from FG, but then again, I didn’t vote for them. I did vote for Labour though. Never again.

  5. Bacchus

    While I have no time for White at all his comment that “the deputy’s [inaudible] cannot be taken seriously in relation to anything they say, anything they say whatsoever” is true and true of all SF representatives.

    1. Bacchus

      It’s a ball of smoke. Just a question with the words “cabinet”, “Siteserv” and “IRBC” in it to get the rabble roused. It works too doesn’t it? SF don’t give a flyin’ fupp about siteserv and the IRBC, they just pandering to the protesting classes.

        1. smoothlikemurphys

          Anyone that thinks Sinn Fein are a bunch of idiots are blueshirts now, is it? What about pairing it with a balaclava?

          1. declan

            he could be Republican Sinn Fein, or official or continuity or just a person who’s a cynic – sly fecker

        2. Bacchus

          You’re consistently wrong in everything you type. I’ve never voted FG or FF. Unlikely to vote Labour again until this current line up are gone.

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