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- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: They were far better off.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The income disregard is down. The Tánaiste is pathetic.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste needs to forget about the politics, but she cannot do so.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Another person said, "The future is very bleak for me and my gem of a 12 year old." The Tánaiste can do all of the grandstanding and political stuff that she does and quote figures that were wrong because that is what she wants to do.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: She wants to go down the route of cuts. I will not go down there. It is just too----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste's greatest mistake was to quote the wrong statistics. This message is not coming from me, but from people who were incensed by her performance on this issue last week. They are fed up of trying to play figure against figure. The policy is not working. In 2012, more than 60% of lone parents were at least in part-time employment. The figure in 2014 was 36%.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The policy is not working. The bottom line-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Stagg, Labour's Whip, does not agree with the Tánaiste. That is in black and white in his letter to his constituent.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Stagg wrote, "I simply fail to see how cutting the income of the very ones who are making a real effort to improve the lot of their families and themselves help them in some way to get out of the poverty trap. It clearly has the opposite effect. I will continue to press for a reversal of this bad decision."
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: He even wrote that he understood fully why this constituent would never vote for the party again. That is what he wrote in his e-mail.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Stagg wrote that he would continue trying to convince the Tánaiste-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----who was wrong, to reverse the bad decision.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The lone parents and children who are suffering do not give a damn about Joan Burton having a cut off Micheál Martin. To them, that sums up the detachment from politics of those in government. What they really want to hear is who will bridge the gap for them-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----who will pay to enable them to get their children to school next September and who will enable them to get petrol to get to work in order to provide funding for child care.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, but I am not worried. They do not really-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: They are not into the argy bargy of politics. It is meaningless to them.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: That type of stuff the Tánaiste is going on with is meaningless to them.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: What they really want to hear is whether there is any glimmer of hope that the Tánaiste will see the light and accept that this measure, which she introduced on 1 July, is having a devastating impact on a significant number of lone parents and their children.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will the Tánaiste do something to change this? Everyone in the House is saying it, but she refuses to be convinced. Even her own party is saying it.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am on the ground. The Tánaiste is not. That is the problem with her.