Unfortunately, what happens in these cases is that a totally erroneous, false and damaging allegation is made and hits the front page of a Sunday newspaper. When it is totally clarified, and it is shown clearly that I did no wrongdoing, it is on page 19 or wherever.
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern
If we started to offer journalists jobs to stop them writing stories, we would have about 4,000 people in Government Buildings.
- Government Chief Whip, Mr Seamus Brennan
Approximately 49 per cent of all first births in the Dublin region are outside wedlock . . . there is a substantial number of single-parent homes where there are three and four children . . . in many cases a de facto father is present . . .
- Mr Gay Mitchell (FG)
