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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The edifice nearly crumbled last Saturday week across there.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Yes, but the Taoiseach does not make them.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. We are opposing the Order of Business today as a protest against how the House is being dealt with and organised this week. There is an extraordinary attempt to suppress any meaningful articulation of issues around, for example, the Social Welfare Bill. It is being rammed through the House utilising the guillotine approach. On Friday we will have a property tax Bill....

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Government wants to ram this thing through this week, suppress dissent and use the guillotine until it gets this thing safely through by Friday evening.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: It can be changed.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: I do not want a debate. This is a serious issue.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: There will be agriculture questions at 8.50 p.m. on Thursday night.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: That is how farcical and ridiculous this entire programme is for the week.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: It can be changed.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Never mind anything else. The Government should do what it said it would do.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: We have not had our say. We want a reasonable opportunity to debate the Social Welfare Bill which we are not getting.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Keaveney wants to speak. Deputy McNamara wants to speak.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: They will not get any opportunity to discuss it.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: They will not.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Chief Whip is ordering business but there is no consultation with anyone.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Chief Whip is not consulting anybody. It is his way and no one else's.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Today saw the publication of the Chief Justice's judgment on the competence of the Government in its handling of the children's referendum, particularly with regard to the booklet, website and advertisement published by the Government. The Chief Justice said that all three failed the test of being fair, equal and impartial. They failed to be neutral, failed to hold the scales equally...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: I know that, but this is a serious issue-----

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----that goes to the very heart of our Constitution. It is the question of who decides how to change or amend the Constitution. It is a serious judgment, and I ask the Taoiseach, in line with commitments in the programme for Government, to provide special time, early in the new Dáil session, for a full debate on this judgment. I ask that the Minister concerned come before the House...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----and incompetent approach was adopted by the Government, in which it broke every rule in the book in terms of the material it published.