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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The McGuinness approach has been to dilute republican culpability in this. The McGuinness formula is a con job in many respects.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: There must be a specific forum and mechanism.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The strategy of Sinn Féin has always been-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----to bury what it does not like from the past. It is selective in what it wants interrogated about the past.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is what Sinn Féin has always been about.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach give Government time to discuss a very important matter, the right of the Oireachtas and the public to hear about the circumstances surrounding the removal of the former Garda Commissioner? It has been 12 months since the Dáil was advised that this was to be the subject of a commission of investigation, along with other terms of reference dealing with telephone...
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am sure the Taoiseach would agree that is entirely unsatisfactory. Commissions of inquiry were never intended to keep basic truths from the public. Can the Taoiseach confirm the wording for the Irish language version of the marriage equality amendment to the Constitution? I thought there would be a statement to the House on that issue. It was the subject of correspondence from Bruce...
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: No, the Taoiseach has not.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should stop trying to abuse the committee.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not illegal for the Taoiseach to comment.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Rubbish. What is the Taoiseach talking about? What propaganda is he putting forward now? His spin doctor has spun that.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should have answered questions in the Dáil in a very simple manner but he refused.
- Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is some democratic revolution. He obfuscates and he hid behind the truth.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aer Lingus Sale (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 567. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the sale of Aer Lingus regarding the cast iron guarantee in respect of connectivity for airports here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6607/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 624. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the plans for the 1916 commemoration celebrations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6608/15]
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am sure the Minister will accept that since the 1990s this House has debated many scandals, allegations and issues surrounding sexual abuse, particularly of children and young people, and the rape of young people, which happened across the country in different contexts within the church from diocese to diocese, within sport, particularly in swimming, and within schools. There is an ongoing...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: This is fundamentally not the case. There are two elements to this: there is the issue of a criminal investigation, and the issue of reporting this to the HSE, at the time, and now to Tusla. There is a fundamental issue with regard to protecting children right now. Those who abused people are still at large and could abuse others within their families, neighbourhoods or communities. The...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The only way it can come forward now is through a commission of inquiry. It could be done on a module-by-module basis and in this jurisdiction alone it could be very revealing. Surely people would come forward in the context of a commission of inquiry and say who was involved in that kangaroo court in 2002. Who were the people who attended it and carried out the internal investigation, who...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is why allegations of abuse have to be investigated - to show that children are not exposed to potential abuse. In terms of any information that is held by Sinn Féin or its associates, therefore, there is a legal obligation that this knowledge or information should be provided now to Tusla and to the Garda in order to protect children who could potentially be exposed to further...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----that, as we know, some commissions of inquiry have held their hearings in confidential settings and then produced comprehensive reports to shine a light on the practices, what happened and did not happen and who was complicit in the cover-up of grave allegations. The bottom line is that in 2002, which is not too long ago, all of this was deliberately, premeditatively kept from the Garda...