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- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: I want to invoke Standing Orders 131 and 136
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: Standing Order 131 only allows amendments not in conflict with the principle of the Bill to be discussed.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am saying what the Taoiseach has done is out of order.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: As has been said, €540 million will be transferred from the property tax to Irish Water without debate. A one-hour debate is not acceptable. These are substantive first time amendments, but the Government thinks it can deal with them on Report Stage and that a one-hour debate will suffice. It is a disgrace.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: The point on Standing Order 136-----
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am invoking Standing Orders.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is riding roughshod over the procedures of the House. Standing Order 136 states, "...no new section or other amendment may be proposed which creates a charge on the public revenue-----
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. What the Government is proposing represents a further illustration of the sheer contempt it has for the Dáil. The arrangements for the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill are entirely unacceptable. Our party Whip wrote to the Ceann Comhairle's office some days ago pointing out that we had significant issues with the Government's approach to the Report Stage...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why not the one on blasphemy?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government cut it the previous year.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach believe his approach was the correct one?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Humanist Association of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6609/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Atheist Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6610/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with representatives of the Jewish faith and the Islamic community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6611/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met religious leaders since the referendum campaign on marriage equality began; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19224/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. He outlined a series of meetings he had with the Humanist Association of Ireland, Atheist Ireland and the Catholic Church and Church of Ireland. Let me move quickly to the issue concerning our schools, and school patronage in particular. The Taoiseach will recall that in the early days of Deputy Ruairí Quinn's time as Minister for Education and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government made a commitment and the Constitutional Convention was in favour of one. We were told there would be one but the Government did not proceed with it. I just want to find out why.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: We are four years into the term of the current Government and I am entitled to ask the Taoiseach why the Government did not proceed with the blasphemy referendum. Was it dissuaded from doing so by others? Did the Atheist Association, on which I have a question, raise the issue of the Angelus? It made very strong representations to RTE. I believe it is overdoing it in this regard. One...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the letter he mentioned during the Order of Business on 28 January 2015 that he received from a legal firm in respect of the terms of reference on the commission of inquiry to be established following the Guerin report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5475/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: I wanted to raise this issue some months ago but with the passage of time our getting to deal with it has been somewhat delayed, but I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I put it to the Taoiseach that Deputy Alan Shatter and his legal firm wrote to the Taoiseach and, I think, the Ceann Comhairle and essentially wanted to delay the terms of reference-----