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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: If we take 23 away from 26, we are left with three.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: That was partition.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: History is the order of the day.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: My apologies, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: What this reveals is the fault of no one in particular; it is the fact that when we have so many questions taken together, we only get a minute, which is not satisfactory. The matter should be referred back to the Business Committee.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: It is not a satisfactory way of doing business.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the British Prime Minister, Mrs. May, or any EU leader since the horrendous attacks and loss of lives on London Bridge; and if he is setting up a COBRA type committee. [27551/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: In yesterday's session, the Taoiseach managed to talk at some length concerning the meeting in Downing Street but, as Deputy Howlin stated, the Taoiseach did not provide us with any additional information beyond what was available in the media. The core dysfunction in the Dublin-London relationship in recent years has been that there have been many meetings but no concrete outcome. The...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Technological Universities Bill, which was before the last Dáil and which is a critical piece of legislation in regard to the future of the institutes of technology, has been languishing for over 12 months now, with absolutely no progress in terms of bringing it to this House and having it passed. I said to the Taoiseach when we met some weeks ago that this is legislation we are...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Thomas Byrne has received completely contrary information.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: Most politicians would agree.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, a bit more transparency from the Tánaiste would not go amiss in respect of all of this.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: I am simply making the point that there are substantive issues here arising out of Fennelly.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach cannot try to escape from that or try to cast aspersions on references I made that were made genuinely. The Taoiseach invited the comparisons, not I.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did so to circumvent the issue that goes to the heart of this.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach tried to create the impression that there were precedents with these individuals, but there were not. There was no precedent with those individuals.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: It was disingenuous. That is what the Taoiseach was at and he should not have done it. The Taoiseach should be much more straight about it. He should come clean, say this was badly handled and that it circumvented the law. That would end all of this. A bit of straight-talking and honesty from the Taoiseach in respect of the issue is needed.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.