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Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I am taking that to mean it will be six months.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: When does the Taoiseach expect its first report?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Whose conclusions?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: It will not be under any obligation to take anything from the citizens' assembly.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: My question relates to the establishment of the citizens' assembly. I make the general point that I remain to be convinced of the model. The Constitutional Convention was an interesting process, people involved liked it and there was a nice, touchy-feely sense about it. In reality, however, a lot of what came out of it overall was left to one side. Some ridiculous issues were put before...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach heard me at my very first Ard-Fheis, in 2011, on national radio. I was the only party leader who went on national television to debate the issue, with Vincent Browne, during the referendum. No other leader-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: No other leader was taken on. RTE would not allow me to go on air except for one interview on "Morning Ireland", and I protested against RTE-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: -----and it would not facilitate me. That is a fact. There is no point in Deputy Coveney interrupting me-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: People in different parties have different views, but we took a position at an Ard-Fheis to go forward on the issue after 2011. The Labour Party was clearly in favour of it-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin was in favour of it. I do not want to remind the Taoiseach of the flowerpot incident, when he ran away from journalists before he answered the question-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The famous incident when the Taoiseach fell over a flowerpot-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I do not want the interruptions-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach was wrong in what he said. I was very much to the forefront of the campaign. What he has said is wrong and inaccurate and he should withdraw it. I was the only party leader-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: -----who debated it on national television-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: -----courtesy of "Tonight with Vincent Browne", a journalist, of course, whom the Taoiseach has never facilitated with a debate-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Coveney is wrong. I am the only party leader-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: -----that went on national television. The Taoiseach did not debate anything to do with it on national television-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I am not. Does Deputy Coveney accept that as a fact?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The point I want to make about the citizens' assembly is that I do not pretend that it was the Constitutional Convention that led to the referendum.