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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not, actually.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: You are. You are against the European Union.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am against its current direction.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: No, you are against it full stop, and you have always voted against it. Always. You have never had a good thing to say about it. There is a bit of hypocrisy going on here too.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It has good environmental directives.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin historically has been against the European Union. It is in its DNA to be against the European Union.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Matt Carthy: The Minister was asked three questions and he has not answered any of them.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I would genuinely like to see who is going forward after the elections and so forth. In any case, I am well used to it at this stage in terms of the flip-flopping and the perspectives. At one level, they will attack-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Matt Carthy: This is too serious for the Minister's messing.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is very serious. That is why the Deputy needs to get serious. I sometimes do not know whether it is the Davy Stockbrockers-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Tá an t-am caite.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: One second, please. The Chair allowed all of them to interrupt. I want to finish my comments with the following.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: The Minister is over time.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Everyone has been over time. I want to make the point that we sometimes get a Davy Stockbrokers view of Sinn Féin policy, we sometimes get a kind of view from the Deputies in here but it depends on who they are talking to, and whether they are talking to the financiers or the developers. They change their tack all of the time.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Matt Carthy: I do not mind the Minister playing politics but on this issue, he should not.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The same applies to Europe. Sinn Féin spokespeople will sidle off to Europe and have their meetings with the Commission, have their meetings with civil servants and tell them all they have a different view from the one they articulate publicly in the House.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Tá an t-am caite.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is what happens with Sinn Féin at the moment. They are talking to different people all of the time with different policies and different perspectives.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: There are clear rules and procedures governing how a President of the Commission is elected or appointed. They are tied up with the elections and there is a two-stage procedure. First, there is the appointment of the Commission by a qualified majority. The European Council will propose a candidate for President of the Commission but then that candidate has to be elected by a majority vote...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)
Matt Carthy: If it will provide any consolation to the Tánaiste, I will of course acknowledge that Europe has huge expenditure of humanitarian aid. Some states within the EU are much better than others and there is not a universal approach but I also acknowledge that the EU has funded very important projects in Palestine. It has funded schools, hospitals, healthcare centres, youth clubs and women's...