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Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: There is much heckling but I am not prejudging anything.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am not prejudging anything. I have no difficulty without fear or favour of having independent planning investigations. Why?

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: I have spoken to the former Minister, Mr. Gormley. The bottom line is that there was resistance to these inquiries within the system.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: There was internal resistance to these planning investigations. I asked questions yesterday evening including whether we are all satisfied that our planning processes are above reproach. I call on the Tánaiste to meet the former Minister, Mr. Gormley, and to look at the dossier himself.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: He should look at the extensive material. He established an independent inquiry and a process but it was suppressed. It is completely dishonest to say that there should now be another internal review. An internal review had been completed.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Consultants were appointed. The Minister, Deputy Hogan, had stated previously that they were spurious complaints. He suppressed them when he came into office.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: They were examined, but the examinations have been suppressed.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: That is not true. The Tánaiste should not mislead the House.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Any examination should be independent of the system.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste is playing politics again. There is something rotten in the State of Denmark.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Government has suppressed the follow-up action.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste is ignoring the question.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: An internal review is being done, by insiders, civil servants.

Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: I would appreciate the Tánaiste's confirmation that of the 26 Bills on the A list, which the Government undertook to publish this session, only three have been published, along with the heads of two others. The Tánaiste must agree that the legislative performance of the Government in this session is at best underwhelming.

Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Can he give any explanation to the House as to this inability to progress the legislation on the A list to which he committed and those Bills he committed to publishing before the end of this session? What is the problem, why is the Government not in a position to publish the legislation it has committed to doing and will the Tánaiste explain to the House the extraordinary lack of published...

Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Why has the Government's commitment to publish 26 Bills not materialised?

Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: There is no legislation available.

Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: When will it be published?

Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Will the Tánaiste send me the correspondence and give me a explanation for the inordinate delay? He promised 26.

Order of Business (28 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Where are the 26? That is a fair point, by any standard. Something must be wrong.