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- Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: They may not have the opportunity.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: We are talking about €1.6 billion of taxpayers' money being rushed through in 20 minutes. It is a disgrace. This is some democratic revolution. There will be five minutes for each spokesperson.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: Parliament is being consistently undermined by Government.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is not the point. I would like to discuss them. Are we to abolish the plenary session of the Dáil?
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is about every Member of the House having the opportunity. Does the Taoiseach understand Parliament?
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: I know that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, laid out the red carpet for Donald Trump recently in County Clare, but I take it the Government will not lay out the red carpet for the disgraceful and inflammatory remarks Mr. Trump made in the course of the American presidential election about banning Muslims from coming into the United States.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am coming to that. That is incitement to hatred and it is important that the Government formally make it clear to the Republican Party in the United States that such remarks are viewed with abhorrence in Ireland and are something we would not tolerate in our democracy. In that context, when does the Taoiseach believe the criminal justice Bill will be brought forward? The remarks warrant...
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: I have gone through the chapter on commitments in respect of health but, although year after year and month after month the Taoiseach assured me they would all be implemented, the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, came along and said we were not implementing universal health insurance at all and, what is more, it will never happen.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: Teachers in schools hate the Croke Park hours. They call it detention for teachers, as they have to stay in school for an extra couple of hours.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: I do not think they realise there is a paragraph in the programme for Government that states that teachers do not have to do this at all. Instead, the Government will allow schools to set their own staffing needs, automate routine processes and adapt work practices to local staff and customer needs. When is that going to be implemented?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: They did, but they were refused.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government has abandoned that move.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: My point is that the flooding has happened. It is disgraceful that the flood relief scheme was not in place. The problem is-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Harris's remarks are facetious. The people who were flooded feel that had the flood relief scheme been put in place two years ago, they would not have experienced what they experienced last week. While we can quote the legal issues, there was a lack of urgency about getting it in place.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: The other schemes were done before the Government's time. Is the Taoiseach committed to working through the flood insurance and a scheme similar to that in the UK? Does he accept that legislation must be enacted regarding it? It is a good idea and makes sense in the long term.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government is to spend less next year.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: I did not say that at all.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: I said it was too late. The Taoiseach has a habit of making up stories. It is another made-up story, a bit like the army and the ATM machines.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is unfair. The Taoiseach should stop acting like a sleeveen. It is too serious for that.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is the opposite.