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- Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I asked about the publication. Will the Taoiseach commit to the publication of the ESRI report? Why the secrecy? Why the failure to publish something that should be shared with everyone in this House and with the public generally? What is the Government trying to hide from the public?
- Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach make a commitment to publish the ESRI report? That is what I asked.
- Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach wants to rewrite the report.
- Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The ESRI is an independent body. Will it be allowed to produce the report and publish it?
- Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Just because the Taoiseach does not like the messages that come from the ESRI is no basis for him to go and prevent it from being published. The Taoiseach is a bit of a dictator. If he does not like what the report says, he re-writes it.
- Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: He does not have the courage to say he will publish it.
- Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will the Government publish it? What is the Government afraid of? Will it publish the ESRI report on universal health insurance?
- Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Is it because it exposes the Government's policy, which has been hopelessly flawed from day one? A big, big lie was told to the people and the Taoiseach knows it.
- Order of Business (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Deasy knows of the difficulties of Waterford University Hospital because of this Government's policies.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The succession of summit and Council meetings over the past few weeks has, unfortunately, produced nothing positive. Instead they have exposed yet again the failure of leaders to work together in a positive and ambitious way to tackle the enormous crisis engulfing the European Union. It is the inflexible extremes which have been allowed to dominate and have escalated problems to a stage...
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I know this hurts the Minister of State but I did not interrupt the Taoiseach when he spoke. I ask the Minister of State to allow me the opportunity to make my points no matter how much they hurt him.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Not only did the Taoiseach vote against those measures he campaigned actively against them. So to turn around now and demand credit for them takes a level neck never seen before in Irish politics. While Syriza was irresponsible in the promises it made before the last Greek general election, let us not forget "Not a red cent" and "Frankfurt's way or Labour's way". They were also dishonest...
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: In this, it has contributed to a situation which has caused large and growing damage the European Union and the ideals upon which it was founded. The summit heard a presentation from the British Prime Minister, Mr. Cameron, about Britain's demand for the renegotiation of various terms of its membership of the Union. Although this demand was announced four years ago, the public is still in...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach committed to do that.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: On Committee State, Deputy Phelan stated, “This Bill is quite technical. There are some typographical issues. It will really be a question of dotting the i's and crossing the t's. The scope of the Bill does not allow for the Bill to be changed in any huge way. The Bill itself is very technical-----
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----we will be proposing amendments. The Deputies will have plenty of time to consider them.” The Minister of State said at that time that there would be no big change to the Bill but that it would be a matter of dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: When we raised this operation yesterday, and the way the Government was proposing to deal with this legislation, the Taoiseach said it was open to the Opposition to propose to recommit it to Committee Stage.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The implication was that it would be recommitted. He did not definitively say it but he gave that as his way out of the leaders’ questions on this yesterday.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: He strongly implied that it could be recommitted because this is very sharp practice. Deputy Phelan said what she said. Deputy Coffey is here and the Minister is notable by his silence. The whole point was to smuggle through this legislation pertaining to Irish Water, hopefully without anybody noticing, and with the Minister well in the background.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: This issue has been badly handled from day one over two years ago when it first came into the House and was rammed through. The Minister of State should give an adequate response saying why he will not allow it to be recommitted given that the amendments are new, very substantive and have been visited upon us for the first time on Report Stage.