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Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Why is that?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: When?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is only three months away, 16 weeks.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: March or April?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach still satisfied with regard to the constitutional status of the economic management committee vis-à-vis its role within the Cabinet? He stated that the committee has met on ten occasions. The Ministers for Social Protection and Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputies Burton and Coveney, and others have on occasion articulated their concerns at being excluded from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: In terms of the economic management committee making decisions, Ministers subsequently state that they know nothing about those decisions or that they do not agree with them. What happened in respect of Irish Water is the classic illustration of this.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: I was only born in 1960 so I do not really know what went on in the 1960s.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Adams certainly knows about the security committee.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Has the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, reconciled herself with all of this?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if the Economic Management Council has met since October. [2183/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when is the next meeting of the Economic Management Council. [2218/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: That was the Taoiseach's Senators.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The fundamental issue when it comes to referenda is that Taoiseach essentially tells us what the Government has decided in terms of what issues it will put before the people. The Oireachtas was presented with a fait accompli in respect of the last couple of referenda. The root of the problem, in terms of how referenda are held here, is that regardless of what anybody else wants or what the...

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: A core issue has been raised in respect of it in this House and there is silence from the Government benches and the Minister. I am entitled to ask the question. Is the Taoiseach satisfied with that in terms of public confidence in the institutions established relating to Garda oversight and in terms of facilitating whistleblowers to come to the table with material they want to talk about...

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am raising the issue. It is about the administration of justice.

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is about the administration of justice or the maladministration of justice. The situation is very serious.

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: I put it to the Taoiseach that the confidential recipient-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----said to the whistleblower: "If the stuff was to get out into the public, the print media, it must come with what happens in the courtroom." He also said: "I'll tell you something Maurice, and this is just personal advice to you, if Shatter thinks you're screwing him, you're finished." It goes on: "Forget about it. He is dealing with a lot of stuff, the Minister". This is what the...

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: He said: "If Shatter thinks it's you, or if he thinks it is told by the Commissioner or the gardaí, here's this guy again trying another route to put you under pressure, he'll go after you."

Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The whistleblower said: "You mean Alan Shatter?" The reply was, "Yes, I mean he will", and it goes on. Why is he saying that? He is essentially saying to the whistleblower that the Minister for Justice and Equality will come after the whistleblower if the whistleblower gives whatever material he has to the media or puts it into the public domain.