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Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: Can we have a debate on it?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: So the Taoiseach is up for a debate. Will he be appearing on Vincent Browne's television programme?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach go on Vincent Browne's programme for a debate?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: "Tonight with Vincent Browne" has been waiting four years for the Taoiseach to debate these issues. Is the Taoiseach providing confirmation that he intends to go on television to debate them?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: Those were all strategies from before the current Government came to power.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is all from before the Taoiseach's time.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: GPs are-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: I got those responses. According to all of them, nothing that I have mentioned will happen.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: Many of the legislative measures and proposals in the programme will not happen. There has been a change in policy. The programme for Government should be realistic.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: Less is being made available. Does the Taoiseach not know that?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is not being upfront about it. There is less.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: Yes, but not by the Oireachtas.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: No, it has to be a tribunal.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the implementation of the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37633/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: I appreciate that, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I thank the Taoiseach. I submitted this question because I have been puzzled for quite a long time about the enormous gap between the reality on the ground regarding the implementation of the programme for Government and the actual programme itself. Nowhere is this more evident than in the "health and mental health" section of the "fairness"...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is not correct. Cabinet confidentiality was in place long before 1997. What happened in 1997, and I stand corrected, was that there was an amendment to facilitate the breaching of Cabinet confidentiality in circumstances of a tribunal of inquiry going to a High Court in matters of public interest and getting access to Cabinet documentation. If I am not mistaken that was in regard to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: It did.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: But we are being asked to pass the Central Bank (Amendment) Bill this week.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: The entire House should get a presentation because the House passed the terms of reference-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----for setting up the banking inquiry. It is reasonable to say that at that stage people should have been made aware-----