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- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: We did. The Minister is wrong. That is a spurious political claim. We costed our budget proposals and tabled parliamentary questions to get more information.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I hope the Minister of State is not suggesting parliamentary replies are untrue or inaccurate. Is that what he is suggesting?
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: We look at the replies in good faith that they are accurate and tell us the truth. Maybe they do not.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I will acknowledge we have had to use freedom of information requests much more frequently because of the reluctance of the Government to give information to the House. This year's shambolic introduction of a household charge proved there is no public acceptance of a family home charge. As the troika has repeatedly said, it is up to the Government to decide how to raise its money. No one...
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Before the election, Fine Gael said such a tax is unfair and would not be introduced. Labour said nothing should be done before 2014 and that it must, under no circumstances, be a flat tax.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Government's proposal is for an unjust tax which is weighted against urban areas. It does not have and will not earn public support because of its unfairness and it could cause much wider problems. It is even more unfair to introduce such a tax before the rising social and economic impact of mortgage and household debt in the economy is tackled where one in five mortgages are actually...
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: They have not. The Taoiseach took his severance pay. I waived mine.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: That is true. I apologise.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Most people across the country agree that last week's budget was deeply unfair and a very brutal one on the poorest and lowest income families. Today sees the commencement of the Social Welfare Bill. What has emerged from all of the disarray within Government prior to the formulation of this particular budget is the absolute determination of the Fine Gael members of Government to protect,...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Did it walk back in to add taxes on lower paid workers and cut child benefit, jobseeker's benefit and the respite grant for 77,000 people? In so doing it has broken every promise it made to the people of Ireland prior to the election. It is no wonder a newspaper columnist described it as a junta of Judases. There is a real sense of betrayal across the land given what has occurred. On...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Or that of the Labour Party.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I never said that.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Another columnist this morning described the interview that the Taoiseach conducted last Wednesday evening regarding the budget as "a stream of banal inanities", a "crumbling of language" and a load of "inarticulate drivel". I would not apply all of that to what the Taoiseach has just said but I would apply it to the initial part of his response.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: We did not predict anything that he suggested. At exactly this moment last year, he reversed the budget decision on the disability allowance and DEIS schools. The Minister for Education and Skills apologised for his attack on carers. He has yet to apologise to the students of Ireland but at least he apologised to DEIS schools for his attack and he reversed that measure. A majority in this...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: He is parading around as some sort of new Ireland chancellor, determined to get his way and giving in to nobody.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I urge the Taoiseach to stand back, reflect on his decision and reverse this cut because it sends out a message that the budget is mean-spirited and shows utter contempt for those who care for the less well off and most vulnerable in our society.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: On the respite grant.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Over the decade.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Is that the note from the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte?
- Leaders' Questions (11 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The poor Labour Party.