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Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: Surely the Taoiseach would accept that, and yet he goes off on a soliloquy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: No. Substance.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I am more interested in substance than public relations.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach saying that the speech had no substance?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: No. It is more process.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the European Parliament; the meetings he attended; and the issues that were discussed. [3060/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if his statement to the European Parliament represents the Government's official position for the forthcoming negotiations for the European Council. [3174/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: 17. To ask the Taoiseach the meetings he attended while in Strasbourg; and the issues that were discussed. [3443/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I find how the Taoiseach has articulated this to be extraordinary. He said that he spoke on his thoughts about how Europe should evolve and on the future of Europe. He said two or three times today that he did not share his speech to the European Parliament with any of his Cabinet colleagues. I must remind him that the constitutional framework under which he has his position is far...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: Has the market research been published?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said it in a formal reply to the House. I am not being flippant about this - he said it, not us.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: That market research would be commissioned by this famous strategic communications unit to inform the campaigns that were going to be launched. The Taoiseach has launched campaigns without any market research being published from what we can see. That is all I am asking. Can the Taoiseach make it available?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: After the Taoiseach appointed the head person.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: From whom?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: This is a new one on me.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach's predecessor, Deputy Enda Kenny, said the Government was in favour of it all along.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: That is not why it was not built.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Government lost the chance for direct funding. The Taoiseach is being disingenuous and dishonest.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I was not referring to the speech itself but to the Government's policy on the future of Europe.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: Is it the case that the policy on the future of Europe does not require any discussion at Cabinet level? If so, that is an extraordinary statement.