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Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: I have a lot of experience in the House. It beggars belief that there is no statement in the House - that the Minister for Justice and Equality has not come before the House to comment on the resignation of the Garda Commissioner following the statements of a succession of Ministers about the Commissioner's comments to the Committee on Public Accounts, and about the Minister’s...

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----and that no formal mechanism is provided for the Minister for Justice and Equality to come in to answer basic questions about why the Commissioner is resigning now. He left certain things in the air in his briefing with me on the most recent issue. The Taoiseach suggested it would do on Thursday, but the statements on Thursday are on the Garda inspectorate's report on the fixed charge...

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: There is a lot of cynical stuff going on here. The only way the Taoiseach can cut through that is by making this House relevant to the issues of the day.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Adams is correct. This was all fed to the media. That is fine. The Government does that all the time. We are becoming-----

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is fine. Surely the Taoiseach agrees that in any other Dáil – I have been here – the Minister would have come in here on the day? Will the Taoiseach make time available today?

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: About what?

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am talking about the Garda Commissioner’s resignation.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: I do listen.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: What is the Taoiseach saying?

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is semantics.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Every radio programme in the country is saying the Commissioner resigned.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister for Justice and Equality should come in here.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is being cynical. He has not responded to me.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: This is appalling.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: I listen.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: We have raised a point-----

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----and the Taoiseach has refused it. The Taoiseach has not said where he stands on this issue. He is the one member of the Cabinet who has not said where he stands on this issue.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach believe the Minister for Justice and Equality is correct? Does he believe the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, is correct?

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has not responded to any of the questions I asked him in three weeks on this issue. He has ducked and dived on it all the time. He owes it to the country and he owes it to the Dáil and to the State-----

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is because I am long-serving that I know a private notice question would have been accepted in any other Dáil before today. There would have been a private notice question.