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Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: The letter goes through the safety issues and previous experiences in Tallaght hospital when HIQA protocols were introduced. The Taoiseach may remember the case of the 101 year old patient. No. 42 in the Government's legislative programme is the health information and patient safety Bill. This represents an appalling indictment of the Minister for Health. The Government needs to respond...

Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I will deal with it.

Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: This is leading to legislation which has been promised. I want to set the context for the question I wish to ask.

Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is a very well researched article in The Guardianand the workers in question are from Egypt, Ghana and the Philippines. There have been cases in the past when we brought forward legislation. The Government's legislative programme provides for the introduction of an international protection Bill. I respectfully suggest to the Taoiseach that there is a need to accelerate this legislation...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: We had three-year money.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: That was in 2012.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said it afterwards.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoisech did not.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I need to get an answer to my question.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: You did not say any of that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I wish to make a brief supplementary point. You did not say that at the time. What you said was that the Governor had said on a Wednesday that-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I wish to ask a supplementary question.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: There is no need to be like that. I will resume my seat, but you need to be a little more flexible in dealing with this matter. The Taoiseach took half an hour to answer the first question.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is not being honest with me.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach a very specific question.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach a very specific question to which I did not get an answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I did not get an answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I hope you do. It is very disappointing. The Taoiseach has been making a very dishonest presentation.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I put it to the Taoiseach that it might be best to admit that no such conversation took place and that the Central Bank did not advise the Taoiseach that he would need the Army that weekend, that the Governor did not come in to him on a Wednesday and say that he would need the Army and the Garda to guard the ATMs by the weekend. The Taoiseach made it up, for whatever reasons. That specific...