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Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I have been here for the last hour and a half to contribute as I do every time we discuss a summit or meeting.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: This is pathetic nonsense.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State knows that Members have a lot going on in these Houses.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: There is a lot of activity in these Houses.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State is playing silly and petty politics with a serious crisis.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: That is what the Minister of State is doing.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: We are trying to engage.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach to meet us, but he refused to do so on two occasions.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I am trying to be as constructive as I can. The Government will not meet us or tell us what is on the agenda. It will not tell us what is being proposed? How dare the Minister of State come in here and say no proposals are coming from this side of the House?

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I am fed up of being inside here and hearing nothing from the Government about anything to do with European affairs.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: How dare the Minister of State come in here with that kind of nonsense?

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Government has told us nothing about what is going on. It told us nothing last month. It told us nothing the month before. It is pathetic nonsense.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I am waiting for proposals.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: This is not a Fine Gael meeting in Dublin 4.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: This is a serious Dáil session on the most important summit, potentially, in the history of the euro.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State is giving us this kind of pathetic nonsense.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: That is what it is.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Come on now, Phil.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is wrong.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: According to an Austrian study, we had the fifth highest rate among the 27 member states over the last ten years.