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- Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: It has been more than three months-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: If the Deputies opposite would listen-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----and allow Members on this side of the House to have their opportunity to articulate their point of view-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: There should be less arrogance now please.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: It is more than three months-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. The Taoiseach has now just confirmed that close to half of the bailout fund is beyond any reduction in interest rates. More than three months have elapsed since all governments in Europe agreed that funding costs, as it was put, "should be lowered to better take into account debt sustainability of the recipient countries". Since then, the only thing that has...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: ----and is putting off the day when some certainty about the future needs of Ireland and other countries can be settled. Last week, the Taoiseach refused-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am asking it, a Cheann Comhairle. The Taoiseach refused to ask for this issue to be discussed at the next European Council meeting. He made the incredible statement in this House that he would talk about it if someone brought it up.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach also has informed the House that he has not raised the issue at a number of meetings with Heads of Government. Since he became Taoiseach, his approach appears to be-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am about to ask it.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: I have been interrupted by a lot of Members.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has enjoyed the adulation and the protocols. Given the abject failure of the Finance Ministers-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----to fulfil the mandate given to them by the European Council leaders to deliver lower funding costs to all countries, will the Taoiseach now finally agree to raise the matter at this month's meeting of European leaders?
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: There was nothing of substance there.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: That is a welcome change from last week-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----when the Taoiseach stated he would raise it if someone else raised it.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. Today, the Government is putting in place the terms of reference for the new committees. This is deeply disappointing and is a retrograde step which will reduce accountability in this House and the capacity of the Dáil to have oversight over many Government Departments. It was a consistent theme of the Taoiseach's colleagues in the last Dáil that even single issue...
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: The select committee on the environment, community and local government, transport, tourism and sport and arts, heritage and the Gaeltacht comprises another 21 members and covers a wide range of activities and responsibilities. Where can we get genuine, real and meaningful accountability in the unwieldy committees the Taoiseach proposes to establish? We all support reduced costs-----
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----and have no difficulty with that but there is a more effective way of doing it than the way the Taoiseach is proceeding.
- Order of Business (8 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: He will reduce the effectiveness of Dáil committees, not enhance them with the measures that are before the House. I also oppose the guillotining of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill.