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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, is the Taoiseach answering Questions Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: That includes the Fennelly commission.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach knows why.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is not correct. That is misleading.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: I have a point of order.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: I have a very important point.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach read out the existing mandatory framework. It is a very important point. The officials from the Department of Finance told the management of IBRC that it was to act as if the framework relationship that came into place two weeks later was already in place, which meant that it should have been notified because it considered a loss of over €100 million. The Taoiseach...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The point I am making is this. Is the Taoiseach satisfied that the Government, and particularly the Minister for Finance, did everything it could to protect the taxpayer, given all of these questions? A separate memo also states, rather alarmingly, that officials had concerns about other large transactions under the aegis of IBRC. These were taxpayers' assets that were being disposed of....
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Frankly, I find it incredible that the Taoiseach could come in here on a Tuesday and say to me that he has not read the article in question. I find that very difficult to comprehend. Did anybody bring it to the Taoiseach's attention in his Department? Did the Minister, Deputy Noonan, ring him about it? Did anybody alert him to the fact that Government memos were going to be released under...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: It goes very much to the heart of how IBRC was doing its work on behalf of the taxpayer. Did anybody at all alert the Taoiseach to this over the last number of days? Did any of his officials contact him to say there was a very serious article on the front page of The Sunday Times? I know Deputy Catherine Murphy asked about this on Leaders' Questions, so the Taoiseach would have been aware...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The problem is that it has been drip, drip, drip. It has taken nearly a year and a half for people to get the most basic information from the system in regard to the transaction itself and how the deal was conducted.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The problem is this. The person in mortgage arrears who turns up in court to have their house repossessed is watching this.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: They are watching a different set of people operate to a different set of rules. Small businesses and small companies-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: We have all learned about their cashflow issues and how they were put to the pin of their collar by banks and everybody else. They are also watching aghast at all of this.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The only way one can respond in an effective way, because this feeds anger and resentment-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----is to have a proper inquiry to make sure nobody is getting favourable treatment over the vast majority of people out there who have challenges and difficulties in their lives because of the crash.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: No, but on Sunday the Taoiseach would have been aware.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Finance said it would be-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: We are talking about this deal. Come on.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: What about shareholders getting €5 million from a company that owes so much to the taxpayer?