"I have absolutely no reason to believe there will be any change in my position,"
Síle de Valera, February 7th, 2006.
"There's been a tradition over a long number of years in Fianna Fáil governments, along with our colleagues in the Progressive Democrats, if somebody is not running in the next election and they hold a ministerial office that somewhere before the election they bow out and give somebody else a chance," Bertie Ahern, February 17th, 2006.
"I have no further comment to make at all," Síle de Valera, February 17th, 2006.