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Order of Business (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Kelleher, my party's spokesperson on health, has just indicated that he was given a commitment that the Supplementary Estimate would be discussed in the Dáil Chamber.

Order of Business (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: Since June.

European Council: Statements (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: The member states of the European Union are going through a deep economic crisis. Unemployment is at historic and rising levels. States must pay excessive amounts to fund public debt and are cutting essential services. Growth projections for the years ahead continue to be reduced. The foundations of the common currency shared by most states are under threat. These are the uncontested...

European Council: Statements (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said it is a matter for the next Parliament.

European Council: Statements (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: Given how deeply important a functioning and effective banking union is for Ireland, this position is indefensible. The same approach led to Ireland making no positive contribution to negotiating the fiscal treaty. In fact, the Government pushed for it to be watered down in a desperate attempt to avoid a referendum. The people have shown they will support any proposal which can be shown to...

European Council: Statements (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has started to move away from the strongest argument for why Ireland’s case is unique. Yesterday, he returned to his partisan argument of saying all debt was incurred solely because of the decisions of the last Government. He has forgotten his words of last month when he said "Ireland was the first and only country which had a European position imposed upon it in the...

European Council: Statements (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: This would be a major defeat for Ireland and would in no way constitute a recognition of our unique case.

European Council: Statements (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is not the terms of the debt that are unfair; it is the fact that we had to incur all of it in the first place. As the Taoiseach admitted in Paris, a significant write-down of debt to bondholders would have occurred had it not been for the intervention of the ECB and others. Financing this debt in a slightly different way does not make it any fairer. If the Minister, Deputy Noonan,...

European Council: Statements (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: The EU budget was the centrepiece of the summit and the entire emphasis of the debate was on cutting it even further. Does the Minister of State agree that the existing budget which is 1% of the total national income of member states is particularly and uniquely inadequate in dealing with the worst existential crisis ever to hit the eurozone? Despite all references to a pan-European...

European Council: Statements (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: I asked a question about the ESM.

European Council: Statements (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Minister for Finance has more or less ruled it out.

European Council: Statements (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: I would have gone to the meetings of Friends of Cohesion for no reason other than to stay in touch and meet people.

European Council: Statements (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: Cohesion Fund expenditure in another country can be of great benefit to Irish companies that supply services to many of the countries that require such funding in a single market. I do not like the fact that we seem to have been very isolated in the past 12 months in the budget negotiations. The appointment of Mr. Mersch was organised by a cabal or elite group. Somebody must make a stand...

European Council: Statements (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----than one would otherwise earn if one had the mentality of going along with the herd. The European Union has not been effective enough in dealing with the situation in Gaza. Transfers of funding from the Union to Gaza, through the United Nations, have been helpful, but there has been an extraordinary lack of investment in and engagement with Gaza regarding fundamental infrastructure....

European Council: Statements (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Austrian model replaced the Dutch model.

European Council: Statements (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: It means nothing.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if officials from his Department have any responsibility with actions being taken regarding the extension of broadband; if he will provide an update on the areas for which they are responsible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47226/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the matters concerning broadband provision which are administered by his Department. [44236/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Services (28 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he or his officials have considered the most recent Supreme Court judgement in relation to the Moriarty Tribunal report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47322/12]

Other Questions: Telecommunications Services (29 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether adequate nationwide coverage will be delivered under the new 4G spectrum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53259/12]