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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: I make the point that the level of change here is so minuscule when you look at it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: The 60 TDs will get one chance a year to participate in this forum and that is exciting everyone. There will be one opportunity for a backbench TD to question me, the Taoiseach of the day, and the Opposition is all up to high doh with feigned outrage.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: I will make one final point. When an election happens, there is a fundamental obligation to form a Government-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----which has been completely lost of sight of-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----and the importance-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: Keep shouting, keep shouting.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: The point I was making was that Governments were formed with the support of three Independent TDs, no one at the time------

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is noteworthy that people on the opposite side do not want to hear a response to the questions being asked.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is a complete shoutdown. They shout down the debate because they do not want to hear explanations.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: No Opposition TD ever lost any rights to this day. This has been proved by multiple senior counsel opinions at this stage under previous Standing Orders.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: That is unprecedented by any yardstick.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: I have never, and I am in this House-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: I was first elected to this House in 1989. I have never seen an attempt like this to say-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: I have never seen an attempt like this to tell-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: I hope Deputy McDonald notes that she got full respect and opportunity to speak from this side of the House. I was not afforded that respect and courtesy from the other side of the House when I endeavoured to answer a while ago.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: Fundamentally-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: The point I was making is that I have never before witnessed political parties trying to tell others what box they are in or what group they belong to.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: Ar dtús báire, is mian liom a rá nach n-aontaím in aon chor leis an méid atá ráite ag an Teachta McDonald.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: Tá sé dochreidte an méid atá ráite aici. Níl i gceist againn ach ocht nóiméad ar an Mháirt agus ocht nóiméad breise ar an gCéadaoin a thabhairt do chúlbhinseoirí-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----an Rialtais agus Teachtaí Dála neamhspleácha. In essence, I have to say that-----

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