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- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: I understand not everybody in the House wants that. I do not believe in the idea, as Deputy Paul Murphy suggests, that the EU is a vast conspiracy against humankind.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: Depending on one's perspective-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is instructive that UKIP and Deputy Paul Murphy have the same view of the EU in many respects.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: One believes it is a socialist enterprise and the other that it is a mass neoliberal extreme free market enterprise. We want Britain to remain with the EU. It is of benefit to the EU and Ireland in terms of economic and social development. I would like somebody to spell out to me how a decision for Britain to leave the EU would benefit Ireland economically in the long term. I would like...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: No, in terms of the EU-UK agreement, there are implications for migrants and consequently-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----for Irish residents in Britain.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: What does that then mean?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: No, they were the first ten questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: We just got in ahead of the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: Go away out of that. Put your questions in on time in future and you might get answers then.
- Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: This morning, in broad daylight, our capital city witnessed yet another barbaric gangland shooting and murder when Gareth Hutch was brutally murdered on North Cumberland Street. Over the past 100 days, seven men have been murdered in our capital city. I condemn in the strongest possible manner the callous and brutal murders that are taking place and I am sure everybody in the House would...
- Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: In 1996, after the murder of Veronica Guerin, there was a scaling up of the State's interventions to deal with that situation. The fundamental question is whether the Taoiseach accepts that a similar scaling up is required from the State right now in terms of what is going on in the north inner city and this particular gangland feud. An inter-agency targeted response is required to deal...
- Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: I am quite disappointed by the Taoiseach's response. It is not just about gardaí and resourcing of the Garda, although the communities are very clear that they need additional policing. What is happening is not working. There have been seven murders in the space of 100 days. It is very challenging for the gardaí. Community groups have been pointing out that there has been a...
- Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----to allow the citizens to live quality lives in safety, security and in peace which is a basic obligation of the State to its people and to its citizens and which unfortunately is not being fulfilled right now because of these marauding gangs. That is the reality and the Government needs to wake up to that.
- Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is no way to treat the Opposition.
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: I was a little taken aback by the Taoiseach's comment during Leaders' Questions about the murders that are ongoing. He said that he could not stop this. No Government should admit defeat by these criminal gangs, and there is an obligation on Government to do everything it possibly can across the board, involving an inter-agency response, to stop these murders and put an end to them....
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is very urgent.
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is pathetic. I cannot believe it is in two Departments.
- Order of Business (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is in the programme for Government.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (24 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance if, and why no, criminal prosecution may be brought if the administrative sanctions procedure under Part IIIC of the 1942 Central Bank Act leads to the imposition of a monetary penalty; to review this provision in order to ensure that appropriate sanction is in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11751/16]