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

Micheál Martin: The most incredible thing about next week's summit is that there is still no indication of any specific proposals which will be on the agenda.

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

Micheál Martin: I have read the Taoiseach's speech. The officials are impressed with President Van Rompuy because he is listening. I know and the Taoiseach knows that President Van Rompuy has a plan and a framework. He is talking to Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy. The Taoiseach knows this but why not inform the House? That is the point. Let us not pretend there is some sort of deliberate...

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

Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy Noonan, as he went into the ECOFIN meeting yesterday, said our Government has no idea what will be proposed. If it does, it is going to great lengths to feign ignorance about specific proposals and it is once again refusing to tell the Dáil about them.

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

Micheál Martin: Through a combination of half-rumours and speculation it is agreed everyone knows how serious things are, but that is as far as it goes. There are no papers in general circulation I know of and I have not been alerted to any. There is no inclusive discussion or negotiation. Most of all there, is no attempt to abide by the principle of solidarity which created and built the most successful...

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

Micheál Martin: He should get down to the bread and butter specifics and concrete realities.

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

Micheál Martin: I have. I have made proposals for the past six months and I will make more before I am finished.

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

Micheál Martin: As things stand there is one core problem-----

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The crisis in Europe continues and it appears Ireland is standing idly by while Rome burns. Three weeks ago, I wrote to the Taoiseach requesting a meeting to discuss a co-ordinated response from parties in this House to the eurozone crisis and to the question of treaty change. He refused point blank such a meeting.

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The time for ducking and diving is over in regard to the eurozone crisis. There is no sense of any inclusive discussion or negotiation and there is no sense of Ireland putting forward any ideas, proposals or suggestions. Has the Taoiseach spoken to, or met, any eurozone leader since his meeting with Chancellor Merkel regarding forthcoming proposals? Has he spoken to President van Rompuy?...

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Given we read this morning that major global companies are engaged in planning scenarios for a euro crash, can the Taoiseach confirm that the Government has contingent plans for the worst case scenario because people are now talking about a crisis turning into a catastrophe? The ESRI made the important point that GDP will grow next year by 1% while GNP will fall and grow by less than 1%...

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: He never used the word "idly".

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I respectfully suggest to the Taoiseach that it would be never daft for political leaders in this House to meet on a crisis so severe and profound as the one we are now facing within Europe.

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: We had no difficulty, and the Government had no difficulty, proposing a mandate from this Parliament on corporate tax, which was unanimously agreed. There was no difficulty with a parliamentary mandate when the previous Government was involved in summit negotiations.

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Nor has the current Administration had such a difficulty because it has a mandate. This crisis is so severe it is important that frank discussions should take place both in this House and between political parties-----

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: -----in the context of the options that are being considered. What eventually emerges should not come as a surprise to parliamentarians or to the people who are being kept in the dark with regard to what is being suggested or proposed by European leaders in respect of the eurozone.

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The difficulty is-----

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: -----that all sorts of predictions regarding outcomes, etc., have been made after each summit which has taken place since February. We have been continually informed that things will get better and that decisive interventions have been made. Within days, however, every set of proposals that has emanated from one of these summits has failed. When he entered Government, the Taoiseach stated...

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: He has not done so.

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach agree with the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, who stated yesterday that the Government has no idea what will be proposed?

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: There was no dissent when the relevant motion was put to the House. Prior to that, however, people outlined their different positions.