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Constitutional Convention: Motion (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: One of the central messages conveyed by the people to every Member of this House last year was that they want a change in the way that politics is done in this country. They want us to focus on getting Ireland through to recovery, but they also demand that we implement wide-ranging and credible reform. This is a very clear challenge to us all and, in particular, to a Government which has an...

Boston College Belfast Project Papers (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: On 6 July, the Federal Court of Appeal for the First Circuit in the US upheld the subpoena issued by the British Government relating to the Northern Ireland oral history project held in Boston College. As a result, Boston College must give police the recordings by its researchers of oral history project discussions and talks with Dolours Price by next month, after an appeals court in the US...

Boston College Belfast Project Papers (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: I accept the Minister of State's statement that the Government's view is that the peace process is sufficiently firmly bedded down to enable it to withstand whatever pressures are brought to bear upon it. Increasingly, however, the needs of victims and the bereaved are surfacing, on all sides. Issues are surfacing through the historical inquiries team, with some very limited success in some...

Employment Rights (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: The existing resolution mechanisms are not working in the current climate and they did not work for the Vita Cortex or Lagan Brick workers. These disputes require a strongly proactive approach on the part of the Government of the day. There was no need for the Vita Cortex dispute to persist as long as it did. It could have been resolved much earlier if a more proactive approach had been...

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Is that it?

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is 15 months into the Government's term of office and this is a promise the Taoiseach made with great solemnity well before the last general election.

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: We did not. Actually, we made none. We deliberately made no promise before the election.

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: I said at the time that this was no time to make promises that one could not fulfil.

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Unfortunately, the Taoiseach made too many of them and the people now know that he could never fulfil them. He has lost a lot of trust and credibility as a result. Coming into government, there was no document, preparatory work or research. Over the past 15 months, we have had various announcements about this matter and now the constitutional convention is being established. I asked...

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am asking about the Seanad.

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is filibustering. We know all this.

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is assuring me of nothing. The setting of a date for this referendum is continually being pushed out. I recall the Taoiseach being equally as adamant a year ago that it would be held this year. The Taoiseach definitively said then that it would be held in 2012. He now says it will not happen during Ireland's Presidency of the European Union because he does not want anything...

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: I will deal with that now. Unlike the Taoiseach, I have no need to filibuster.

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said a great deal of work has been done.

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Will he share that work with the Oireachtas?

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Never mind that nonsense. I am asking the Taoiseach to share the work which he says has been done. With the greatest of respect, the Taoiseach gives a great deal of silly responses.

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should treat this House with a little more respect.

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Fianna Fáil's spokesperson and Chief Whip, Deputy Ó Fearghail, attended the briefing which was just a role-out of the convention.

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: It was a sham and everybody knows that.

Abolition of Seanad Éireann (10 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am asking the Taoiseach if he will share the work that has been done on the abolition of the Seanad with the Oireachtas. Why will the Taoiseach not do so? Will it publish that work so that the Oireachtas can discuss it?

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