What Bertie Ahern said.
"I was broadly in favour of the development . . . but I was totally opposed to the gambling end of it, because all through my political career I had opposed one-armed bandits"
A statement to reporters on December 3rd, 2007
" . . . will be no casino, as proposed, at the Phoenix Park racecourse"
Bertie Ahern in the run-up 1997 general election
"There will be no casino, no licence, no amendment to the Act. That is Fianna Fáil policy"
Mr Ahern told the Dáil on December 4th last that he made the above statement on the Pat Kenny Show in June 1997
"Fianna Fáil actively campaigned against the casino in 1996. The idea for a casino came from Bord Fáilte"
In the Dáil on December 4th last
