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Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: There was no rationale for its establishment.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: It has been blown out of the water by EUROSTAT. It has been a costly and colossal waste of public money for which the Taoiseach stands indicted.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is what we have now.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is what EUROSTAT has stated that we have.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: After €800 million, we have 34 local authorities.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is the reality.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Government did not have to spend €550 million for that.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach will not tell me today about his proposal for 1,200 people.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: He has not told me.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has gone from McEnroe to Paisley.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is staring the Taoiseach in the face.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: Thank you very much, Taoiseach. We are all very reassured by that.

Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: They are responsible to the Minister for Finance as well, and the Taoiseach knows that.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday, we voted through a request from the chairman of the banking inquiry, Deputy Ciarán Lynch, to extend the date for that inquiry to report until the end of January. I then asked the Taoiseach what I thought was a very reasonable question - to confirm if the House was to be dissolved before the end of the year. If a general election is called, the banking inquiry will never...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach aware of the depth of distress caused and the dissatisfaction articulated about how the independent panel of barristers is going about its work, which the Government oversees? Is the Minister of a mind to make a full report to the House in relation to it? Is the Minister or the Government prepared to set up independent inquiries into a number of these cases?

Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach says they are entirely separate.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order-----

Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has said that we voted yesterday to extend the report.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: If we had known there would be a general election before the end of the year, we would not have voted that through.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: We would have wanted to committee to report. The Taoiseach is treating us like fools.