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- Order of Business (13 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: When is it coming to the House?
- European Council: Statements (13 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: The agenda for this week's summit yet again lacks either the urgency or the ambition required to tackle the immense problems facing the citizens of Europe. Since the last summit growth has fallen and an even deeper recession has been confirmed. Over 26 million people are now registered as unemployed including a further rise in youth unemployment. Uncertainty has returned to the bond...
- European Council: Statements (13 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: He is certainly the first Taoiseach ever to take domestic politics on the road with him when he goes on international trips. This has stopped him consistently pushing Ireland's strongest arguments for the debt relief which is so important for our future.
- European Council: Statements (13 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: Throughout 2011 he said that Ireland's problems were entirely its own fault. He went to Berlin and the strongest argument he could muster was that it would be a win for the whole team to help Ireland. By October last year he had finally started to recognise the role of the European Central Bank and EU-imposed policies in driving Ireland out of the bond market. On Monday he sought to...
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff Numbers (13 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total number of staff in the Arts Unit in 2010, 2011, 2012 and currently; the budget for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13003/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (13 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that IT Tallaght has spent €3.5 million from non-Exchequer resources as part of the preparatory phase of a major capital work which his Department included in its commitments under the public capital programme but which has subsequently not been funded; his views on whether it fair that the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Private Partnerships (13 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the equity of IT Tallaght losing €3.5 million from student, non-Exchequer resources due to the failure of the State to provide promised capital funding; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this has significant implications for an institute which serves one of the poorest communities in the country. [13169/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (13 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider an independent inquiry into the death of Father Niall Molloy in Clara, County Offaly, in 1985; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13287/13]
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: During the past week there was much discussion of the mortgage arrears crisis, preparing the scene for yesterday's announcement by the Government. The question of repossessions loomed large in that discussion, worryingly so for many families. The Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, have been at pains to play down any prospect of repossessions....
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: On LMFM yesterday the Tánaiste was similarly lauding this plan. The bottom line is that there are 23,500 people with mortgages in arrears for more than two years. That is very similar to the targets the banks have been given. These 20,000 people odd are clearly in the firing line for repossessions because the banks have to make offers and proposals. There is no definition of what a...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----the capacity of borrowers to survive after such a deal is made in their daily lives and in keeping them and their families together. When Deputy Michael McGrath and our finance team put together a debt settlement office Bill, which suggested the establishment of an independent office, the Minister accepted-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am putting it.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister accepted that legislation, in principle. Will he indicate, first, what Matthew Elderfield means by a significant number of repossessions and, second, will he provide, independent of the banking system in its entirety, for independent oversight on behalf of the borrower and mortgage holder because, without question, the imbalance in the relationship between the banks and...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----is confirmed and exacerbated by the announcements made yesterday?
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: First of all-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: Is Deputy Byrne the new Ceann Comhairle?
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: There have been approximately 950 repossessions according to Mathew Elderfield's comments yesterday, and 38 forced repossessions in the last quarter. I do not accept the point that the Central Bank in the context of its functions and remit, and the imperatives and orthodoxy by which it abides will tip the scales in favour of the mortgage holder-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----or that there will be a genuine independent approach to resolving the issue which allows sustainability for the mortgage holder.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste, Deputy Gilmore, was very clear about what should be done before the general election because his view was that for the duration of the recession there should be no repossessions whatsoever.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2013)
Micheál Martin: He said it would be crazy for the banks to repossess and he wanted a guarantee that there would be no repossessions of family homes for the duration of this recession. He said it in this House and he put it very eloquently-----