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Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: Not during my speech, no. How dare you.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: You are talking through your hat.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: I do not have to.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: You will not answer one.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has not answered one question in 18 months.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: I have read it and there is not much to hear from you.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: Then get on with the proposals.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has a question.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: As the Government reaches its final days, its refusal to be straight with the people about anything-----

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----has become its defining feature. Through nearly every Department, it actively works to hide information and reject accountability. It is so obsessed with trying to sell a fairy tale of decisive leadership that it has no time to recognise, let alone address, the enormous and entirely avoidable crises that have emerged during its term. The withholding of information, twisting of...

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: I do not intend to speak about the slogan "It's Labour's way or Frankfurt's way"; that can wait for another day.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: As this Government reaches its final days-----

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: I still do.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: How about the Moriarty tribunal? The Taoiseach has not accepted it.

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: If the Taoiseach had rung him, he would have told the Taoiseach.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: I put it to the Government Whip-----

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----and to the Tánaiste that no one has an issue-----

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: They are shouting down people now.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: No one has an issue with the motion of confidence being the major item today, but we certainly have an issue when the Whip says that there is no Order of Business, that questions to Taoiseach's shall not be taken and that other matters may not be raised.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: More crucially, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, with respect, Topical Issues are going before Leaders' Questions and Oral Questions for Ministers are going before Leaders' Questions. Why could the Taoiseach not take Leaders' Questions at 5.30 p.m. today after the motion of confidence?