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- Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am showing it correctly. With the greatest of respect, I have never initiated the kind of behaviour that others have in this House, but this is going a step too far.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: To get that glib, arrogant, ignorant response from the Taoiseach is unacceptable.
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: On No. 15, if I could get clarification, what Departments are involved there?
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: A speech made in the House last Wednesday on a serious issue and material that was disseminated, individually, to members of the Committee of Public Accounts. I wish to invoke Standing Order 59. In essence, as a House we need clarification on this because names were mentioned in the House and those who were mentioned have categorically denied any assertions or allegations that were...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: So when one becomes Tánaiste, one becomes supportive of it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: I put three questions to the Taoiseach in respect of the Economic Management Council. He dismissed any concerns relating to the EMC. However, it was the Tánaiste, Deputy Burton, who first articulated major concerns about the council. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Coveney, and the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy White, have...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and many of the other Deputies opposite voted against the measures introduced by the previous Government but they are now claiming credit for them. They are also claiming credit for the work the late Brian Lenihan did as Minister for Finance. However, that is politics. The rationale put forward by the Taoiseach in respect of the establishment of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: This is more of the Taoiseach's dishonesty.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: No. Fine Gael voted for it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: What about the October Paris statement?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is a hypocrite.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: He voted for the bank guarantee.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach voted for it as Leader of the Opposition.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: It borders on the unbelievable.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: I think the bank guarantee was the right thing to do, by the way. It had to be done.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach thinks the same.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is not going to happen. They do not determine leaks.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is not listening.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)
Micheál Martin: They have told me the opposite.