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Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Can we freeze it in time?

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Last night journalists said they had run for cover behind a wall of silence.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. The 19th document laid before the Dáil, as referred to in the Order Paper, is entitled "EU/IMF Programme of Financial Support for Ireland - Draft Programme Documents, November 2011". Apparently it has been lodged in the Oireachtas Library. It relates to the draft programme that was circulated to German parliamentarians. I have asked for time to be provided to the House-----

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I oppose the order and, in doing so, am entitled to comment on why.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I oppose that on the basis-----

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: It does not matter.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I am entitled to oppose the sequencing of the Order of Business in the House.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I know that. I am absolutely well aware I am not Ceann Comhairle.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I am not attempting to do anything.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I understood Deputy Adams attempted to raise a different matter.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I oppose the order the Ceann Comhairle is putting to me. My understanding, based on precedent, is that I am entitled to comment on why I oppose the order. As the leader of an Opposition party, I must state-----

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I asked for section 12 consideration regarding this issue yesterday. It is unprecedented that documentation would go to German parliamentarians before Irish ones. I do not have any problem with the concept once we get the documentation first. I find it extraordinary that we do not even get an opportunity to ask questions about it.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: We do not.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: It has been snuffed out.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: It has been deliberately suppressed and put down. We just have not got an opportunity. Yesterday, I got nothing from the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: It is not about changing Standing Orders. I am opposing this order-----

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: -----on the grounds that I would prefer to have time for a session of questions and answers, with either the Minister for Finance or the Taoiseach, on the process that led to the documentation going to the German Parliament before it came to the Dáil.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: It is a very reasonable request.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Barrett, as Ceann Comhairle, should defend the Members of the House in asking why this happened. That is all I ask.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: No.