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- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I did not get any reply to that. The very basic thing the Government Whip should do is reply to us in an open and honest manner. The Tánaiste should do it too because the Tánaiste is the Deputy Head of Government and she sent the Government Whip to do the Government's bidding.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is absolutely contemptuous of the House that, as others have pointed out, there are more "nots" in this notice of motion. You cannot do this and you will not do that. That is now the pattern. The Government wants to shut down this House and avoid any accountability and any questions. I want finally to say that if the Government-----
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: If Deputy Buttimer wants order, I would suggest to the Government Whip that he should communicate with the other Whips, and not at 1.40 p.m. or 1.50 p.m., saying here is notice of a motion and here is the programme for legislation, with no other communication with the Whips.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is disgraceful and contemptuous. The Tánaiste does not have the guts to come in and put this motion.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: She knows how contemptuous this is.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order-----
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Before you put the amendment, a Cheann Comhairle, I would like to put a number of questions to the Chief Whip. Why is the Tánaiste not fronting this proposition today? The Taoiseach is not here. Normally, when the Taoiseach is not here, the Tánaiste steps in.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Is the Tánaiste acquiescing in these jackboot tactics? What I would say to the Whip is that no one has an issue-----
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Not agreed. Could I ask the Government Whip where the Taoiseach is? Surely at the commencement of the business of the House he should be proposing this motion, a motion that again reveals the utter contempt that the Government has for the Dáil and its proceedings. Is this going to be the pattern for the rest of this Dáil, suppressing legitimate debate and basic accountability?...
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: These are basic questions, and I cannot understand for the life of me why the Government is so intent on shutting down the Dáil today.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: There is no Order of Business. We are being asked to vote-----
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----that there should be no Order of Business within the meaning of Standing Order 26. Can someone give me a rational explanation as to why?
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why is it that Leaders' Questions are being put back? Why is it that Oral Questions to the Taoiseach and Private Notice Questions are not being taken?
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Anything that is potentially awkward for the Government is being put to one side and shelved. It really speaks to the intent of the Government in this Dáil to keep running, to keep ducking and diving and avoiding the hard questions.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I do not know why the Deputies opposite are laughing, because that is what the Ministers have leaked to the media. They have said that their strategy is to hide the Taoiseach as often as they possibly can.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is what we are reading.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: We have been reading that for the last number of weeks - that they reduce-----
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: In fairness-----
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----I will say that the honourable exception to that rule is the Government Whip himself, who believes that the Taoiseach will rule forever and he will be looked after later.