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- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: I did not know that.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: A consistent thread in the Taoiseach's replies to various people on this question during the last Dáil and this one is that there has been no wrongdoing on NAMA's behalf.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The allegations are about the deal. That is the point but the Taoiseach keeps almost deliberately ignoring it. The allegations are about the entirety of the deal, its ethics and its rightness or wrongness. Surely, when people heard that there was up to €7 million in an offshore account, it raised eyebrows. Surely, the deal should have been called off when PIMCO alerted NAMA to...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is what has come back to us in regard to this. It is the sense that has come from Ministers, the Taoiseach and NAMA in a very defensive mode. Instead of saying that if something is rotten in the state of Denmark in regard to this deal, it is in our interests to tackle and deal with it.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Did it ever occur to the Taoiseach that we should have set up a commission of investigation when the National Crime Agency, the US Securities and Exchange Commission and others were pursuing this? The Taoiseach mentioned the Northern Assembly. There seems to be a sense of a connection and a nexus between politics and all of this in the North as well. That may emerge in the coming weeks.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: I put to the Taoiseach the question of whether he ever asked the Minister of Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, the question as to why the shutters were not pulled down on this deal when PIMCO gave its information to NAMA in regard to third parties.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Someone pocketed €7 million.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The offshore account.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The offshore account and the money paid in fixers' fees.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: There was only one bidder.
- Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to the establishment of a public sector pay commission to review public pay, with an emphasis particularly on lower paid public servants. There has been much angst about young teachers, young gardaí and young health personnel on low levels of remuneration. Will the Taoiseach confirm when the commission will be established? Will the...
- Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, Macroom is in County Cork.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet sub-committee on housing has met. [14452/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Fifteen minutes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: This is new.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach reply to all of us who tabled questions together?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: No. I do not think that will work.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: We have been very clear as a political party that the housing and homelessness emergency is the No. 1 priority which must be addressed by this Oireachtas. Hence, I support strongly and pay tribute to the special committee on housing which was chaired by Deputy John Curran and which is completing its work this week. It will present its work on Friday. What we have here is an inclusive, a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet sub-committee on health has met. [14453/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: I put it to the Taoiseach that the previous Government's Cabinet sub-committee on health was in many ways a place to which policies or initiatives were sent in order to avoid any action. The clear evidence of this was its one publication, the White Paper on health insurance, the status of which is unknown. Will the Taoiseach clarify whether that White Paper remains official policy or...