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European Council: Statements (20 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: After years of unprecedented financial and economic crises, the European Union is today dealing with the largest humanitarian crisis it has ever faced. However, its leaders continue to fail the basic test of responding with urgency, imagination and generosity. This summit slightly nudged along a response but achieved little else. With winter closing in and people about to be caught in...

European Council: Statements (20 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: Very good. My first question is about the summit meeting and the Government's view on the position of the Hungarian Government, which, from the outset of this refugee crisis, has been seen to be, to put it mildly, very much removed from the core values of the European Union. The action and the language articulated by the Prime Minister of Hungary and the sense of putting up the wall to stop...

European Council: Statements (20 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: On the banking union-----

European Council: Statements (20 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: That was the case, but-----

European Council: Statements (20 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The completion of the banking union is a vital part of the EMU process. The Taoiseach said the outcome of the meeting from Ireland's perspective was disappointing in that there was no specific reference to this in the final conclusions of the summit. Apparently, there was a strong statement in the draft conclusions about a common deposit guarantee system and then, in the face of inflexible...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Industrial Production (20 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: 156. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the Central Statistics Office figures that show manufacturing production fell in August 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35262/15]

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The report on paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland comes to a very stark conclusion that the IRA army council still exists and the report endorses PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton's assessment that the IRA exists, that some of its members were implicated in the murder of Kevin McGuigan and that the Provisional IRA, PIRA, members believe the Provisional IRA army council oversees both...

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: I have been labelled certain things now by people who do not like what I am saying.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: I refer the Taoiseach to the proceeds of the Northern Bank robbery. I indicate to the Members on my right to check court records from 2010, which show that three members were prosecuted and found guilty of handling proceeds from the Northern Bank robbery. One was an unsuccessful candidate for Sinn Féin and the other was a fund-raiser for the party. The third member in the courts...

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: We cannot turn a blind eye to this. There is a fundamental question. I have described this as a "twilight zone", with people being individuals one day and "good republicans" the next day. It is very difficult for people in our position to work out which is which.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: I appreciate the Taoiseach's positive response to the basic question I have asked, and I am obviously quite prepared for the talks to consider that and for a proposal of that kind to emanate from the talks process. The peace process belongs to us all. It does not belong to one political party, as has been asserted from time to time. We have all invested heavily in the peace process, none...

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is what we are up against in the Republic. The situation has always been one of denial, denial, attack, attack. I have just been called a gurrier by Deputy Mac Lochlainn.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is the type of intimidation-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----that people engage in when they are challenged, and remember-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: If I could put it to the Taoiseach, would he not agree-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is the Chief Constable's assertion, which has been endorsed by this report, that Provisional IRA members were implicated in the murder of Kevin McGuigan, which has created this crisis in the peace process.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: It was not anything I have said or anything anybody else has said.

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The final question I want to put to the Taoiseach is about the 50 individual members of the IRA who have had tax assessments against them arising out of criminal proceeds and so on. I understand the need for in camerarules in terms of tax and so on. However, given the extraordinary nature of this issue and its importance for both jurisdictions-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----is there a need to review, in this specific context, how the in cameraprocedure is being used to protect or hide the identities of many of these individuals whom CAB has assessed as having major issues regarding the proceeds of crime and who are making tax settlements with CAB, but under cover and in a way that is not transparent, so we do not get a picture-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: We do not get a complete picture of what is actually happening.