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- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: This is fundamentally not the case. There are two elements to this: there is the issue of a criminal investigation, and the issue of reporting this to the HSE, at the time, and now to Tusla. There is a fundamental issue with regard to protecting children right now. Those who abused people are still at large and could abuse others within their families, neighbourhoods or communities. The...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The only way it can come forward now is through a commission of inquiry. It could be done on a module-by-module basis and in this jurisdiction alone it could be very revealing. Surely people would come forward in the context of a commission of inquiry and say who was involved in that kangaroo court in 2002. Who were the people who attended it and carried out the internal investigation, who...
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not illegal for the Taoiseach to comment.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Rubbish. What is the Taoiseach talking about? What propaganda is he putting forward now? His spin doctor has spun that.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should have answered questions in the Dáil in a very simple manner but he refused.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is some democratic revolution. He obfuscates and he hid behind the truth.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach give Government time to discuss a very important matter, the right of the Oireachtas and the public to hear about the circumstances surrounding the removal of the former Garda Commissioner? It has been 12 months since the Dáil was advised that this was to be the subject of a commission of investigation, along with other terms of reference dealing with telephone...
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am sure the Taoiseach would agree that is entirely unsatisfactory. Commissions of inquiry were never intended to keep basic truths from the public. Can the Taoiseach confirm the wording for the Irish language version of the marriage equality amendment to the Constitution? I thought there would be a statement to the House on that issue. It was the subject of correspondence from Bruce...
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: No, the Taoiseach has not.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should stop trying to abuse the committee.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Paudie McGahon is very clear in saying there were deliberate attempts to encourage him not to go near the Garda. He was very clear about that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why did you give them an amnesty for so long?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is just to dilute your culpability.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Used.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: There are organisations that have information which could be useful.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Since when are we all agreed on that?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The McGuinness approach has been to dilute republican culpability in this. The McGuinness formula is a con job in many respects.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: There must be a specific forum and mechanism.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The strategy of Sinn Féin has always been-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----to bury what it does not like from the past. It is selective in what it wants interrogated about the past.