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Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: From March this year, everybody else has been in the dark about this. The Minister did not alert anybody here that there were serious issues surrounding the sale of the Northern Ireland loan book. By any definition, it was a serious issue that such a senior adviser to NAMA on the Northern Ireland loan book and who was on NAMA’s Northern Ireland advisory committee was subsequently...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: There are also concerns about the interaction between the Northern Ireland Executive and NAMA. The Minister for Finance had five contacts, namely, three meetings and two telephone calls, with Northern Ireland politicians on the sale of the NAMA loan book. That is separate from the biannual meetings between Northern Ministers and their counterparts in the Republic. This is a concern,...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach not concerned about this? Why was it that, when the Minister for Finance was informed of this serious development with NAMA ,that the entire sales process was not withdrawn?

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach last week would he set up a commission of investigation, and he said, "No". The Committee of Public Accounts would be the job, he said. There is a significant difference between the UK's National Crime Agency and the Committee of Public Accounts in terms of capacity, power, expertise etc. What is dramatic is the contrast between how the UK authorities are approaching...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: No one batted an eyelid. It seems neither the Minister nor NAMA batted an eyelid other than to safeguard themselves, to tick the boxes and to get the assurances, notwithstanding that it is the same legal firms involved, and lo and behold, we all are surprised afterwards when other material emerges. It is not good enough. It is an extraordinary error, at the minimum, of judgment, that the...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----the memorandum of understanding that the Northern Ireland Executive drew up with Pimco is, in itself, extraordinary. Releasing all the debtors of corporate guarantees and security of borrowers etc., it is an extraordinary memorandum. It was sent to NAMA as well. In addition, the First Minister met Cerberus before the deal was closed.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: Was the same deal done there? It is a kind of activity that was not happening here. In any event, it was not meant to be. To have that level of political involvement between the First Minister, the Minister for Finance etc.------

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy First Minister met them afterwards, after the deal was done.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: The bottom line is, will the Taoiseach agree to the establishment of a commission of inquiry?

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, I have made no allegation. Why is the Taoiseach deliberately answering the question he was not asked?

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is the old sleeveen approach again.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should answer the question I asked, for God's sake.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should stop that old sleeveen carry on.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: The people are fed up with it. There is a lack of integrity.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach knows damn well I did not.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: He said all that.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: We know all this. The Taoiseach is time-wasting.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: Ministers do it every week.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diaspora Policy (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for that revelation.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diaspora Policy (14 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: I must point out to the Taoiseach that he keeps claiming credit for things in which he had no involvement. In his reply to Deputy Creighton's question, he said that the Government took difficult decisions. In fact, he opposed two thirds of all the actions of the former Minister for Finance, the late Brian Lenihan, in his budgets to correct the deficit. He opposed every one of them,...