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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is appalling.
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said he would write to me about proposed legislation. This legislation refers to the Government commitment to bring "to an end the unacceptable Executive practice where no record is kept of ministerial involvement with an issue and resulting decisions". The Taoiseach could not answer that basic point last week. In total, 23 meetings took place between Bord Gáis and the...
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The former Minister, Phil Hogan, met with Ms Hynes in his ministerial office here with no civil servants in attendance and no notes taken. This is such a serious matter that the Taoiseach should make a statement to the House as to how that occurred. Huge amounts of public expenditure has been involved. It has been a huge debacle.
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It has cost the country a fortune. The net revenue will be about €25 million in the end. It has been one botched episode after another. The Taoiseach said on page three of the programme for Government four years ago that this legislation would come in. Why was it not brought in four years ago?
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am talking about the Government’s record. It made this commitment on page three of its programme for Government. Last week, the Taoiseach did not answer me because he probably did not even realise it was there.
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I want an answer to it. It does necessitate a statement. Under the Voluntary Health Insurance Acts of 1996 and 2008, the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, brought forward SI 613 of 2014, which gave today as the appointed date for VHI to make an application for authorisation by the Central Bank of Ireland. Is this happening or has the Minister authorised a new statutory instrument? When...
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order. I asked a basic question about when the legislation committed to by the Government in its statement that "we will bring to an end the unacceptable Executive practice where no record is kept of ministerial involvement with an issue and resulting decisions" will be introduced? Would the Taoiseach please answer that question?
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: This is my second week in a row asking this question and the Taoiseach waffles on about something else that I did not ask at all.
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I did not.
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I simply asked the Taoiseach when that legislation is coming in and why so many meetings were held with no minutes.
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach committed to legislation to "end the unacceptable Executive practice where no record was kept of ministerial involvement with an issue and resulting decisions".
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: "We will legislate for reform", it says here.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The spring statement will not be a budget, a White Paper or a Book of Estimates and it will contain no financial resolutions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not even a national development plan. Is it an election document? Should civil servants be involved in preparing it? Will the capital programme mentioned by the Taoiseach be yet another instalment in the series of documents and announcements we are getting on a regular basis?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Is it not the position that all this is about the electoral timetable as opposed to substantive fiscal or budgetary matters? There is a big question mark over the utilisation of the Civil Service in such a cynical exercise.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is dishonest. That is not the truth. All those issues were dealt with before anybody resigned. The Taoiseach should be honest.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said the EMC was established for a specific reason and that it allowed for very regular contact. This seems a very poor reason for the establishment of the EMC. The Taoiseach can have this regular contact with the Tánaiste whenever he wants to. Some two thirds of the measures needed to reach the 3% deficit target had been taken by the previous Government before the EMC...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will the fiscal council be consulted on the spring statement?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am talking about the spring statement.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the suggestion that the Economic Management Council should not be retained after the fiscal crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2157/15]