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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has already nailed his colours to the mast.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: What about the European Central Bank?

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the informal European Council meeting held on 28 May 2019; the issues that were discussed; and if he held bilaterals at same. [22676/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I have asked the Taoiseach about the issue of the budget and whether he supports the idea of additional revenues for the Union. The broader question facing us will be the budget to be spent by the Union and the financial framework for the next five to six years. The Brexit situation looms large and we do not know who is going to win the Conservative Party's leadership battle and become the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: No, I did not ask that. The Taoiseach knows I did not ask that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should take the honest position and admit that he has no interest in pursuing Seanad reform within the context and parameters of the Manning report and the work of Senator McDowell, who feels that he has been hung out to dry by the Government's, and Fine Gael's, approach to this issue. The honest thing to do would be to say that the Government is not committed and has no...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: It was very late-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: It is all my fault.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I supported it. The Taoiseach did not do his homework.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I did.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: No, I was not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: No. I got a phone call two days before polling day when the die had already been cast.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not approach us at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not approach us on this at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I voted for it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I voted for it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: His appointment of Senator Buttimer as director of elections was his most inspired in many years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: It was most inspired.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I voted for it; the Taoiseach made a bags of it.