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Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Prime Minister May on 30 January 2017. [4116/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is seven months since the Brexit referendum. The failure to go beyond generalities has now gone from frustrating to causing widespread concern. In past negotiations, such as those on the fiscal treaty and EU debt terms, the Taoiseach perfected a strategy of refusing to say what he was looking for until the negotiations were over, after which he would declare the negotiations as a major...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: I love it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, I do not mind co-operating, but that last intervention took the biscuit.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: If it happens to come from a certain quarter, we dispense with the rules. No 15 minutes. I have been very gracious every week. I do not mind giving up time and so forth.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: Last week, the same thing happened and Deputy Howlin lost time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: We are going to lose out. Basically, it means that there will be just two question slots. It is calling for a review of this process. That is the point that I was going to make.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: This is happening every week. We are taking ten minutes from subsequent questions. There are three 15-minute slots. If ten minutes are taken, we are de factotalking about two slots. We can take five minutes from each slot. I do not mind.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: Sorry?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: Tyranny of the minority.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: There are four-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: How many Deputies does Deputy Coppinger represent?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: I represent 44 Deputies.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: Come on.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: These are the procedures, are they not?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: The murder in Aleppo trumps an awful lot of issues in the House, but there was silence from the other side. Double standards.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: What does Deputy Howlin mean? The Labour Party has asked two questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: I have no difficulty with giving five minutes to Deputy Howlin.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: Come on.