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Post-European Council: Statements (19 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: In exactly 100 days the United Kingdom will cease to be a member of the European Union unless current UK law is changed. Without a transitionary period the impact on Ireland next year alone will be €3.5 billion. It is an unprecedented threat and one for which we are clearly not ready. Last week’s meeting of the European Council was deeply depressing for anyone who seeks to...

Post-European Council: Statements (19 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: It shows a Government which is simply incapable of accepting legitimate concerns. The Taoiseach needs to wake up and realise that his normal way of carrying out political business is not good enough as we stand 100 days away from an enormous threat for which our country is not prepared. He said there are 45 legislative measures required in the next 100 days in the event of a hard Brexit....

Post-European Council: Statements (19 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: Our most consistent anti-European Union party will some day accept the right of others to criticise it and point out how the attempt to link Brexit with the constitutional position of Northern Ireland has undermined the attempts of others here to get unionists to accept Dublin’s good faith. Last week's summit also addressed, albeit too briefly, a series of other fundamental matters...

Post-European Council: Statements (19 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for falling for the temptation.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (19 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he spoke with the leaders of the SNP or Welsh Assembly before or after the December 2018 EU General Affairs Council meeting. [53430/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Northern Ireland (19 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 256. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has recently received a security report on Northern Ireland. [53433/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (19 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 410. To ask the Minister for Health the number of practising consultant doctors who are not on the specialist register. [53912/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: Brexit continues to cast a cloud over political, economic and social developments in Great Britain, Ireland and throughout the entire European Union. Tonight's vote in Westminster is the latest instalment in a lengthening saga in which no coherent, concrete view on Brexit commanding a majority of British parliamentarians is emerging. The withdrawal treaty looks set to be defeated - although...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply and wish him a happy new year. I must report back to him from west Clare, west Cork and other parts of rural Ireland that very few wish the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, a happy new year, judging by what I picked up from travelling around.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said he was happy to share information with the Dáil and that he was keen to consult. Dare I suggest to him that he has not been keen to consult the Oireachtas and that he has not been happy to share with the Dáil. It was under pressure that the contingency plan was published on 19 December. What is the big secret? What is behind the reluctance to share basic...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: The cost has increased from €600 million to €1.7 billion.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: The cost has increased by over €1 billion.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: It is the old Clinton line.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: May I come in on Thursday's business?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: It is on the same issue.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: It relates to the Brexit debate. I said this before Christmas. We have a difficulty, as a party with up to 45 Deputies, with a pattern that has developed. My understanding was that a conclusion had arisen out of the Dáil reform committee that proportionate time would be allocated to the larger parties that would allow those parties to come back in a second time on substantive debates....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: No, I am not at all.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: What emerged from the reform committee was that-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: -----there would be a second opportunity for Members of the larger parties to contribute to a debate, but the debates have been shortened. The Government's initial proposal of a five-minute speech from each of the main representatives of each party on Brexit was insulting to the Dáil. It was just pathetic. This is the defining issue of our time, and the Government was offering five...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach agrees but he never does anything about it. The idea of 15-----