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- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will explain briefly. They were held in October and November that year. According to records in Mr. Hogan's diary there were no civil servants at either meeting which took place at a time when many key issues were being considered. There were no notes for more than half of all the meetings between the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and Bord Gáis in the...
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will come to it. There is a context to the question I will ask.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: A total of 23 meetings took place and of those, only ten had minutes.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is, actually.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will tell the House why. Four years ago, page 3 of the programme for Government stated, "We will legislate for a reformulated code of laws, replacing both the Ministers and Secretaries Acts and the Public Service Management Act, which will spell out the legal relationship between Ministers and their civil servants and their legal accountability for decisions and for management of...
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It makes a laughing stock of the Taoiseach's commitment to the programme for Government.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is not my question.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I asked about the commitment on legislation in the programme for Government. Why was that legislation not introduced? Will it be introduced?
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: He has an obligation to answer a very straight question I put to him. Will he introduce the legislation as committed to on page 3 of the programme for Government?
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I do not want an update. Either the Taoiseach will introduce the legislation or he will not.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Or else, the Taoiseach is guilty of gross hypocrisy in terms of how he has been behaving on this issue. Will he introduce it?
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission Establishment (26 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the low pay commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9968/15]
- Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach might often have heard it said that there would be no need for the establishment of statutory inquiries to inquire into issues if we had clear and transparent statements on the floor of Parliament from the Taoiseach or indeed Government Ministers about specific issues. The Taoiseach will recall that on 25 March 2014, he informed the House that the former Garda Commissioner was...
- Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: There should be no big deal about the Taoiseach confirming whether he was called to appear before the commission a second time. I find it difficult to understand the reason he refuses to confirm that. There is no law that says he cannot say whether he has attended the commission. The law under which the commission of investigation was established does not state that. It does state that a...
- Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I welcome that the Taoiseach has indicated he will publish the module of the Fennelly commission dealing with the resignation of the former Garda Commissioner immediately it is received.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I do not believe the motivation for Government including that module was the Oireachtas committee request.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I can only surmise about the choreography that went on behind the scenes. It seems to me that essentially this bought time for the Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach could have prevented all that if he had answered the simple and straightforward questions which I and others in this House put to him on the floor of this House about what he said to the Secretary General, what the Secretary General said to the former Garda Commissioner and so on.
- Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: However, the Taoiseach chose not to do so. Again, parliamentary accountability was the loser in terms of the sequence of events that have unfolded. The reason I put the question regarding the publication of this report is because the progress report was not available on the website, or to the media, until six weeks after it had been received.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): National Awards Scheme (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am unsure whether the Taoiseach is aware of the comment by Napoleon when he was stabilising matters after the French Revolution, that he would rule mankind with baubles. We need to be careful. I have always had an open mind but, as a republican, I have a view that there is always a question mark around the State bestowing honours on people. Unfortunately, in Britain we have seen the...