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Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: We are not doing it well. The Taoiseach is not doing it well.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Government is getting rid of a legitimate mechanism that parliamentarians use to raise issues.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is a bit of a dictator. That is the problem.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am somewhat disappointed by the Taoiseach’s response. There is a compelling need for an independent inquiry. One could be established that would not jeopardise any criminal proceedings. There are fundamental issues that go to the heart of what happened at Áras Attracta that need independent investigation, separate from the HSE and HIQA. The Government should move on that and...

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: I thought an action team would have been established with resources to go to every centre in the country similar to Áras Attracta and carry out a thorough examination of practices and culture, to give that assurance to relatives and to affirm the basic human rights of people living in other centres. I am not casting any aspersions on the hundreds of good staff out there who do good...

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am asking what has happened to the report.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Government can cut tax for a couple of hundred million euro. That is the debate in this society.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: I think it is very good. It is an excellent report.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is about the institutionalisation problem in this country.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: We know all this. Nobody is asking about Christy Lynch.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: Did anything happen on the recommendations? That is what we need to know.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: The House will be united today in anger, shock and horror at the revelations in "Prime Time: Inside Bungalow Three" last evening. I commend RTE and "Prime Time" for an excellent example of public service broadcasting at its best. The revelations were shocking and they represented violations of human rights of senior citizens with intellectual disabilities. These citizens, Ivy McGinty, Mary...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is a bit late now.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: No, it is not. Deputy Buttimer got stitched up by his own side.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: My party is not agreeing to the late sitting. It is appalling and farcical what is going on. I genuinely say that. There is no need for this. We are debating the order of today's business at 7.50 p.m.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is farcical.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It would not happen in any organisation.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is not the reason.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is not the reason. We could have had the motion of confidence and the Private Members' motion, and that would be that. There is no need for this.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is just an awful ramshackle, ham-fisted-----