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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: 80. To ask the Taoiseach if he contributed at the special European Union Council meeting in April 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18116/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: 81. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the comments he made at the European Union Council meeting held on 23 April 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18146/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: It was supposed to be seismic in 2012.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: That was always an option. It is a change of language.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Did the Government tell a lie in 2012?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should stop talking nonsense.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has said this for four years.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: No, it has not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is not the case.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: That was always there.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: That was there in 2012.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Boyd Barrett is ahead of me. He is okay to go ahead.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I gave way.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Notwithstanding what has been done - I accept that the officials are working very hard - it might be no harm if the Minister, Deputy Charles Flanagan, flew to Cairo and met the Administration because these regimes act on a state-by-state basis. I agree with other Deputies who have poured scorn on the quality and integrity of the judicial system that it operates. We know this from even a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yes, I was going to come to it. The Taoiseach probably said to Mr. Tsipras-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I understand from where the Taoiseach is coming because I was where he was before the general election. I understand he opposed everything the previous Government did to achieve fiscal consolidation and make two thirds of the correction which was necessary to get the public finances in order. I opposed all of it, too.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The former Tánaiste, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, opposed it also.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I understand Mr. Tsipras. Deputy Eamon Gilmore had to say, "It is Labour's way, not Frankfurt's way." I know that Mr. Tsipras had to do all of this too in Greece, but where he and I differ is that, in terms of what happened after the election - as one of our Ministers said, that is what one does before an election-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (12 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said to Mr. Tspiras that that was how we had come through it, that we had said what we had to say to be elected but then a new reality dawned after being elected and going into government when we just calmly, nonchalantly and without too much fuss jettisoned everything we had said before the election, particularly about the bondholders and retrospective recapitalisation. It was...