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- Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: I have two brief questions.
- Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: I asked the first two questions on this issue. Specifically, I asked whether the Taoiseach asked the Deputy Prime Minister for a reduction in the interest rate on the bilateral loan. The Taoiseach's response initially was that he referred to the issue. Then he stated that he indicated to him our desire for the reduction. With the greatest of respect, that is verbiage. On decoding, it...
- Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: ----- to raise the Geithner question. This issue simply is not raised when Government members meet people. To date, no direct submission has been made to the British leaders seeking a reduction in the interest rate on the bilateral loan, which would have an important impact on the wider issue.
- Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will publish details of the proposed text on the interest rate paid for by Ireland circulated by President Van Rumpoy at the summit meeting of 11 March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18231/11]
- Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach his further plans for substantive bilateral meetings with other heads of Government which he has for the remainder of 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18388/11]
- Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach the manner in which he approached discussions regarding the European Central Bank at the recent European Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18394/11]
- Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: The three questions I tabled in this group refer to three completely different issues. Grouping them in this fashion leaving marginal time for questions only serves again to allow the Taoiseach to avoid answering specifically the questions that have been raised. I seek specific answers to the specific questions I am about to ask. First and specifically, the Taoiseach confirmed only last...
- Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: On the specific issue, I know well what goes on.
- Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am trying to ask the Taoiseach questions to get to the bottom of this issue. European Council President Van Rompuy brokers solutions to any difficulties arising. I ask the Taoiseach to say whether at the meeting President Van Rompuy provided him with a compromise text as a possible solution to the problem?
- Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach publish the text?
- Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: That does not matter.
- Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: It is very important in the context of this key debate on debt sustainability. The Taoiseach has confirmed that a text was presented to him by President Van Rompuy. A lot of money has been at stake in the past three or four months and I would like to know whether the text is similar to the amendment tabled by the Taoiseach during the debate on corporation tax. People are talking all the...
- Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: President Van Rompuy's text.
- Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: I tabled three separate questions and timing has become an issue. I asked the Taoiseach his plans for substantial bilateral meetings. Given the debt issue and the priority given to it by the Taoiseach, it is extraordinary and incredible that he has yet to have a substantial bilateral meeting with a eurozone leader. The programme he outlined in his reply is scant in terms of any substantive...
- Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: What about the ECB president?
- Departmental Appointments (12 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach the basis upon which the new second secretary of his Department will report to the Tánaiste for half of his or her responsibilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18385/11]
- Departmental Appointments (12 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the appointment of secretaries general in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18392/11]
- Departmental Appointments (12 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he has satisfied himself with the manner in which the vacancies of secretaries general in his Department was announced; the reason the original timescale was not adhered to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18393/11]
- Departmental Appointments (12 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the filling of the positions of Secretary General and Second Secretary General in his Department. [18841/11]
- Departmental Appointments (12 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. I protest at the extraordinary number of questions transferred or disallowed. This is the culmination of a four-month effort by the Government effectively to undermine the status of questions to the Taoiseach. It is very disappointing to the Opposition. In the past number of months, unrelated questions were put together in large groups and specific...