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Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: No one mentioned that.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister should get the transcript.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Mario Rosenstock will have a field day.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: We will now get the point of view of a Government backbencher.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: With respect, will the Minister stop trying to undermine people who are bringing very important matters of concern into the public domain? She should stop doing that. She has done too much of it. The Minister, Deputy Shatter, undermined a good man in the case of the whistleblower. The documentation here contains some of the material I gave to the Taoiseach yesterday concerning the cases....

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----and there is no doubt that he read and studied them. The confidential recipient says, "I know he did". He read them and he knew their gravity. What happened? Nothing happened.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: All of this ran into the sand. These are very serious issues. The bottom line is that there simply must be a commission of inquiry into these matters of grave public concern. The Minister did not answer the questions I asked her. Does she not think the Minister should come here today and address the House on the gravity of the assertions and allegations that have been made? The House is...

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is a different issue.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: We did not raise that issue this morning.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister is answering on an issue about which she was not asked.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The only reason the Minister is answering on that matter is to avoid answering the question she was asked.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Get to the point.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister is trivialising it.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday the Taoiseach stated in the House, in respect of the confidential recipient and Garda whistleblower, that "having read all of the statements made and having been in contact with the Minister for Justice and Equality who is very concerned about this matter [...] he has this morning relieved Mr. Connolly of his duties." There has been nothing else from the Taoiseach or the Minister...

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Does the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, agree that we require a comprehensive statement from the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, on the reasons he decided to relieve Mr. Connolly of his duties? Second, does she agree it is now important that the Minister for Justice and Equality make a comprehensive statement in the House on the entire affair and...

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, received it two years ago.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: That has nothing to do with it.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am not talking about that.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: This is the document-----

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: This is a document that was sent to the confidential recipient on 23 January 2012.