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Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Government does not talk to anybody. It just rams everything through.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am listening too much to nothing two years on.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: But we do not even get a chance to discuss legislation.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is all blather out of the Taoiseach. He is never here five days a week, obviously.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Not all the time, just a reasonable amount.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Government had three days two weeks ago on a motion of self-congratulation but only two hours last night on an issue that affects everybody in this country.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Government is organising the House to suit itself and the Taoiseach should not give any pretence about that because he does not believe in reform.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is the Taoiseach's prerogative. That is what the Taoiseach is at, misleading people on a continuous basis.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is not prepared to discuss it.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: He is not being in the least sincere.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am elected. That is the reason I am here.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Does the Deputy want democracy?

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am not a communist by the way.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: It will be the end of the term, so.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Year five.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Free Legal Aid Spending (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of money paid out in free legal aid in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the amount paid to defendants with prior criminal records in each of the years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11675/13]

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: On 23 February 2011, the Tánaiste stated "Labour will not cut child benefit because", as Labour's policy document noted, "it is the State's only recognition that Ireland remains a very expensive place to raise a child. To do so will create poverty traps, work disincentives and increase the number of children in poverty". The Tánaiste went on to break that promise, as the...

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is a very weak defence of what has occurred, because the Tánaiste was categoric in respect of the child benefit issue and how families are finding it extremely difficult to rear children given the associated costs. The Tánaiste has articulated a view that also has been articulated by the Minister for Finance. He used the phrase that it is correcting an anomaly. Pregnant...

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: There are alternatives in respect of raising the €40 million in revenue that has been identified by the Minister for Finance in this regard because coming on top of the cut in child benefit in particular, this represents a significant attack on the income of mothers and families in the context of the difficulties to which the Tánaiste has drawn attention in the past regarding...

Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Everyone knows that women do not go on maternity leave because they want to get extra money. That assertion should be accepted. I do not accept in any shape or form the idea they somehow are benefiting more than others and it should not have been put forward as a rationale or as a defence for the measure by the Minister for Finance or by the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton.