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Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Tá an Taoiseach i gcoinne na ngardaí faoi láthair.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: N'fheadar cén fáth.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Níl faic déanta ag an Rialtas faoin gceist sin.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: An bhfuil tú ag magadh?

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Bhí tú i gcoinne gach aon cáinaisnéis.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Tá sé in am don Taoiseach cúnamh a thabhairt do ghardaí na tíre seo.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Níl aon bhrú orthu.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Níor chuir an Rialtas aon bhrú orthu.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Níl faic déanta ag na bainc.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Ní cheart go mbeadh an Taoiseach ag magadh.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The programme for Government included a commitment "to tackle the huge overuse of guillotines to ram through non-emergency legislation". For the past year and, again last evening, the Taoiseach decided to use the guillotine to ram through non-emergency legislation. The latest instalment was the property tax (amendment) Bill. The upshot of that was no discussion took place on amendments and...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Members wanted to discuss amendments last night, for example, relating to exemptions for those in mortgage arrears or negative equity, social welfare recipients, people on low incomes and those who paid stamp duty between 2000 and 2012 from the impact of the property tax. Yesterday, there was a big row about this. It is a serious issue for the entire Dáil. Members do not want to...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: That has been going on for the past year and a half. The Taoiseach promised a democratic revolution.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The programme for Government has a commitment to tackle the huge overuse of guillotines to ram through non-emergency legislation. A total of 67 amendments were tabled to last night's Bill and not one of them was discussed.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: In terms of how the House was ordered, the reason for this, according to the Taoiseach yesterday, was that the Revenue Commissioners will issue letters relating to the property tax next Monday. That suggests that the Parliament is some way down on the lower rung of the ladder in terms of priority in that the administration of something is more important than the policy context and before the...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is not good enough and I say this as a Member of the Dáil as well as a leader of a political party in the Dáil.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: When will the Taoiseach implement that aspect of the programme of Government to which he signed up?

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: I never used the guillotine as a Minister.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Is that not fair?

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: That was Second Stage.