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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is what Sinn Féin has always been about.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: I accept the Taoiseach's bona fides in endeavouring to deal with this issue. He is correct in saying that, in the Paudie McGahon case, we are talking about a safe house. I think Deputy Adams and those in Sinn Féin-IRA will have been very well aware of the circumstances of this for a long time, just as they were well aware of the Maíria Cahill case for a long time but chose to do...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: What allegations have I made?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: I am just referring to the Dáil debate.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: Yes, but the context of my question is the establishing of a mechanism to deal with this on the public record. This is not an allegation. I am not making an allegation at all in regard to this. Deputy Adams himself has said that this is the way the Provisional IRA dealt with these issues, and that it was unfortunate and that it was a pity it happened that way. He then tried to say it was...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It just beggars belief that he would come forward here and pretend that he knows nothing about this-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----or about the procedures or protocols, and so on. It just beggars belief. That is the point in regard to all of it. This is not something new. I think the Taoiseach needs to work with either the British Prime Minister or the Minister of Justice in Northern Ireland in regard to facilitating victims coming forward to deal with these issues.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Very often issues get a wave of attention in the public media and then tend to drift to the side in terms of consistency of focus and urgent intervention mechanisms that should have been put in place to enable their further investigation and also to facilitate other victims to come forward. We were shocked by the Maíria Cahill revelations because...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the allegations of sexual abuse and the use of kangaroo courts by the IRA with the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43802/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed with the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, concerns regarding sexual abusers being moved from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom by the IRA movement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43803/14]

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: To end that situation and to dilute the power of the banks, we brought in constructive legislation last week but the Government said "No way", that it was not going to accept it and kept its head in the sand in terms of the enormity of the issue. The Government then put forward the line that somehow it was the borrowers' fault and that those in arrears were not engaging with the banks. Two...

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It was a very detached comment by the Minister for Finance in the context of the extraordinary anxiety and stress for many ordinary families, couples, women and so forth, who were brought before the courts to have their houses repossessed. The problem is growing at an alarming rate. The Minister said he would change the personal insolvency legislation: the service has only dealt with 199...

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: To be frank, that is a meaningless response. The Taoiseach made reference to adjustments and named three items that are not adjustments at all. Making people aware of something is not changing anything. An independent audit of how poorly a system is working is not changing anything, with only 199 cases concluded to date. The third point I could not quite understand, to be frank. The...

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The bank ultimately brought them to court without engaging with them. It is an insult to those people when a Government Minister or the Taoiseach says they are only being brought to court because the banks want them to engage because they have not done so to date. That is not the truth. There are lots of people out there who are at their wits' end. These are responsible people who want to...

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: Only 199 cases have been dealt with.

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach cannot specify those measures now.

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: Why can the Taoiseach not specify them now? We had a debate on this issue last week. Why did the Government not outline those new measures in the House then?

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: Those kinds of glib soundbites got the Taoiseach elected but they will not get him re-elected.

Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: Last week I raised the issue of home repossessions and mortgage arrears and the numbers of cases coming before the courts. There have been 7,000 repossession orders lodged in the courts as of January of this year, not to mind the 8,000 last year, and it is estimated that over the next two years up to 25,000 family homes could be repossessed. It is interesting to note that two thirds of those...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aer Lingus Sale (10 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 567. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the sale of Aer Lingus regarding the cast iron guarantee in respect of connectivity for airports here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6607/15]