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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: At all.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: Not on this particular one.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Shatter had written to the Ceann Comhairle before.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: Okay.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said in his reply that the Government had intended to have a two hour debate on the commission of inquiry. That debate was stopped. The Ceann Comhairle made a ruling that there would be no debate. I find it extraordinary that a Member of the House would seek to suppress a debate on the establishment of an inquiry because of his particular perspective on that inquiry and its...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): National Security Committee (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: In light of the horrific and brutal murders in Tunisia, there clearly is a need for the national security committee to meet quite regularly because surveillance works. There is another side to the equation and while I understand the balance between surveillance and privacy rights for citizens, the most fundamental obligation of Government is to protect its citizens and that means proper...

Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: No context was attached to any of this. Sometimes, it pays to say one was wrong.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: Surely the Taoiseach cannot believe it is credible for him to say he did not increase VAT. He increased it from 21% to 23% in his first budget. Could he please acknowledge that it actually happened so that everybody else need not scratch their heads wondering whether it happened or whether it was a figment of their imaginations? The Taoiseach was very clear that it did not happen. Today...

Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin said we should tell the troika to go home and forget about the bailout, although it was needed to sustain education and social welfare spending. Although many falsehoods were propagated to the Irish people, what had to be done had to be done.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: The same problem applies to Syriza in Greece.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: Syriza made statements on which it could not possibly deliver, and we are in a crisis. I return to a very simple question I asked the Taoiseach. Does he accept that he got it wrong when he said VAT, income tax and PRSI were not increased? Does he accept that those three basic points were wrong?

Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: What about VAT? Was it increased?

Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: What about the pension levy?

Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: Were there VAT increases or not?

Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: Of course I am laughing at it. Nobody believes the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Greek debt crisis is very serious, not just for the Greek people but for the entire eurozone and European Union. People need to approach the crisis from very credible perspectives. In that context, I refer to remarks the Taoiseach made during the week on the situation, and in particular the manner in which he entered the fray, hectoring and lecturing and offering advice to the Greek...

Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----with the public not just here but in Greece when he says such things as he said during the week. If he wants to advise people towards a saner and more stable approach the first point of departure is to tell them the truth and not to tell them things that are fiction or an invention or whatever else. Does the Taoiseach regret his comments? Will he withdraw them and will he acknowledge...

Deaths in Tunisia: Expressions of Sympathy (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: Ar mo shon féin agus ar son mo pháirtí, ba mhaith liom mo chomhbhrón a dhéanamh le clanna agus cáirde go léir muintir Carty agus Hayes as ucht an dúnmharú uafásach a tharla i Tunisia laethanta ó shin. Is olc an scéal é. Dúnmharú uafásach ar fad a bhí ann. Déanaim comhbhrón le gach éinne...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Eurozone Crisis (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: 151. To ask the Taoiseach if the Greek Prime Minister, Mr. Alexis Tsipras, has been in contact with him since 22 June 2015 on the Eurogroup's talks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26428/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Eurozone Crisis (30 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: 270. To ask the Minister for Finance if the German Finance Minister made contact with him before the European Union Council on 25 June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26430/15]