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Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: We have been telling you that in here for six months. I welcome the Government's belated conversion to our thinking.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: It is.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State should go back over her speeches.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State should go back over her speeches for the past nine months and tell me how it is not a belated conversion.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I have been saying this for the past six months in this Chamber and the Minister of State ridiculed me. Only a month ago, the Minister of State claimed we had make a great breakthrough.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I want a debate but the Minister of State will not even take questions now.

Order of Business (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. I want to put on record my total opposition to the guillotine of the very substantial and important Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011.

Order of Business (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I am opposing the guillotine of the Bill. We had many commitments about transparency and about the facilitation of debate in this regard.

Order of Business (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday, we raised a similar issue in regard to the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011 but only one amendment from Deputy Sean Fleming was taken because of the guillotining of Committee and Report Stages after only half an hour, although 21 amendments were tabled.

Order of Business (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Some 73 amendments are proposed to the Water Services (Amendment) Bill. Although we are talking about Second Stage, this gives some illustration of the range of issues that need to be articulated on Second Stage. There is a lot of interest across the House in this Bill and a lot of concern across the country, particularly in terms of septic tank charges. All of those issues need to be...

Order of Business (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: That is not satisfactory.

Order of Business (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Will the committee meet in this Chamber? Will that debate be in the Chamber?

Order of Business (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The European directive on agency workers is due to come into law next Monday. This is a directive that has profound consequences-----

Order of Business (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. The European directive on agency workers is due to come into law next Monday via domestic legislation that must be passed by this House. It is legislation that has the most profound consequences for multinational investment in this country. The world is watching in terms of the way we intend to transpose this directive into law. I find it incredible, with...

Order of Business (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach might ask the Minister to talk to the Opposition spokespersons on industry and appraise them of the position, which is critical.

Order of Business (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach just say that he blamed the troika for everything?

Order of Business (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: He did.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: One month ago the leaders of Europe emerged from another emergency summit and announced that they had taken steps that would finally contain the sovereign debt crisis. In only a matter of days this was shown to be a nonsense and the crisis has escalated dramatically since then. There is no longer any room for doubt: a failure by the leaders of Europe and the European Central Bank to change...

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: While reading it I found myself wondering whether we were for or against limited change.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Should we tell people what limited change is proposed? We are keeping the people in the dark and then, subsequently, when something is eventually agreed, people are surprised and questioning and so on. If the European leaders continue to go about it this way, it is doomed to fail. The Taoiseach has not engaged in any diplomatic initiative of any consequence.