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Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: -----again today when he said he has his own conspiracy theories. I am giving him an opportunity-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: -----to reflect on what he said today and last week about Mr. Flaherty and to withdraw those remarks.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach does not like criticism.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: I am happy enough.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: That is because the issue is never discussed. We need a debate on the issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: There are no pre-Council statements. There is no real or genuine debate on the issue in the House.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: There are many commitments in the programme for Government in respect of political reform. One of the disappointments has been the lack of progress for many Opposition Bills going through the House and the abuse of the money message. At the beginning of the lifetime of this Dáil, Members were told that a reasonable approach would be taken in using the money message with regard to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: Various Governments brought that project through. I visited DIT recently and buildings have been constructed. It has the makings of a fine campus. It is being advertised, through the use of taxpayers' money, as though it was something completely new that Ireland will get in 2040. All the time, the project is rolling on. There is a very legitimate question to be asked. Why are civil...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: We have been publishing policy papers on European reform for a long time - for years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the February 2018 informal EU leaders' meeting; the issues that were discussed; the contributions that he made on the multi-annual budget for the post-2020 period; his contributions on the EU Parliament; and if he held bilateral meetings at same. [9654/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the discussions at the EU leaders' informal meeting regarding the budget after 2020; the contributions he made; and the consensus. [10147/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: I have said before that it is extraordinary and strange that there were no pre-EU Council statements prior to the EU informal summit held last month because, as the Taoiseach outlined, institutional and transnational issues were discussed, in addition to high-level EU appointments. With regard to the discussion on the number of seats, the departure of the United Kingdom from the Union...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is the Government's job.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: We were alerted this morning that the Business Committee may consider a Friday sitting at its meeting this afternoon. Our Front Bench agreed readily to a Friday sitting. I think it is important that the Supreme Court does its own work independently of the Oireachtas. In that context, there is no suggestion of the Oireachtas putting any pressure on the Supreme Court. It should be...

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: I wish to put a key point to the Taoiseach. There was a party political dimension to the promotion of the plan. The strategic communications unit was about political promotion and not the provision of hard information.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: Four marginal constituencies; Limerick City, Limerick West, Roscommon and Longford-Westmeath all just happen to have Fine Gael candidates emblazoned across advertisements that have been paid for by the taxpayers' money. The utilising of taxpayers' money for a political spin machine-----

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: -----orchestrated by your good self from beginning to end of the enterprise: that is what is over the top.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: Under Standing Orders that remark should be withdrawn.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: I would have just named the papers.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: I did not mention that at all.