Will this Minister for Justice, who never kept his mouth shut in opposition, open it in Government? - Labour Party leader, Ruairi Quinn
It was Bull McCabe when you were on this side of the House, and it's Chicken George in Government. - Pat Rabbitte, Democratic Left, to the Minister for Justice, Mr O'Donoghue.
Nobody has stood up and told me that there was something I could have done and did not do. Until that moment arrives I would suggest, humbly, that you are on a hiding to nothing and the road to nowhere. - The Minister for Justice, Mr O'Donoghue, rejecting criticism of his handling of the drug suspects court releases.
The rest of the country go back (to work) early in the New Year, why can't this house? - Ruairi Quinn.