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- Order of Business (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Does that mean the Taoiseach is not ruling out a Supplementary Estimate?
- Order of Business (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach saying there has to be one?
- Order of Business (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: What is the Taoiseach saying?
- Order of Business (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Can he monitor it?
- Order of Business (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: We are trying to get some clarity.
- Order of Business (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The HSE's financial deficit more than doubled in February, to €56 million. It is now predicted that there will be an overrun of hundreds of millions of euro by the end of the year. It looks like the first-quarter financial deficit - that is, the deficit built up by the end of March - will be €100 million. The Minister told a Cabinet sub-committee last week that the HSE will...
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I put it to the Taoiseach that he has ignored the genuine calls from this side of the House for an end to the bank veto, and various legislative propositions we have made. When will the Government remove the veto the banks currently have on debt resolution mechanisms? The Personal Insolvency Act has been very ineffective, and it has failed. We hear leaks via the media that something will...
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I did not just mention bank repossessions and the bank veto, they were the main part of the question I put to the Taoiseach, but he chose to ignore them until the very end of his reply. The statistics revealed yesterday showed there were more than 586 repossessions since January, and 383 of those related to homes. We know from research by Professor Seamus Coffey in UCC that 1,000...
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said the banks bring people to court because they have not engaged prior to that, but many people engage before they get any legal letter, and they still get the legal letters, with all the anxiety that goes with that.
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: For four years the Taoiseach has been asked to end the veto the banks have over the entire process. The Bill that introduced personal insolvency practitioners did not work. The Taoiseach called them in to hear from them approximately six months ago. Something must happen to change the status quo. Is the Taoiseach going to change the veto the banks have over the entire process - "Yes" or "No"?
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: How is it beneath me?
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach about the bank veto.
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not say that earlier.
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why not? Why could the Taoiseach not announce them last week?
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is just all spinning. It is not because the Taoiseach had other things to do.
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is more news management. It is all spinning.
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: He is far more popular in Kilkenny than Phil Hogan is.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Get on with it.
- Topical Issue Debate: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: One press release after another.
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Four years ago Deputy Michael McGrath proposed legislation to set up an independent mortgage resolution office to provide a proper intermediary force between the banks and people in mortgage distress and to ensure the banks would not have a veto over the resolution of mortgage arrears and agreements. He ignored it and month after month since then he has ignored pleas from the Opposition to...