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- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, this goes on all the time and it is wrong.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: What is going on is wrong. Deputies should be allowed have two minutes to ask a question. The Deputies opposite are shouting down democracy.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: I will indeed, but with respect ,it is not what is happening.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: They are interrupting all the time.
- Order of Business (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is fair to say that, over the last 25 years, there has been a transformation of attitudes to entrepreneurial endeavour. Many more people today will contemplate establishing a company compared to a generation ago. City and county enterprise boards have played a significant role in encouraging, influencing and supporting people to take that step to set up their own businesses. Small to...
- Order of Business (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: People are at their wits' end in communities across the country over the failure to release that funding which has been allocated in the Estimates and matched to projects. It has not been released because of some review that the Minister, Deputy Hogan, has dragged out and is delaying unnecessarily.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Insolvency Service of Ireland Issues (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 24. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for the full operation of the Personal Insolvency legislation mechanisms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20783/13]
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Thursday, 9 May, is Europe Day. Unfortunately, the European Union and the European economy are not emerging from the unprecedented financial and economic crisis. The predictions are that Europe is falling deeper into recession. For the second quarter in a row we are witnessing contractions in some of the main European states, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain, and unemployment...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The problem is that those policies are not working across Europe. That is the point. They are simply not working. Millions of people across Europe are unemployed and the levels of unemployment across the main European economies are unprecedented. Commentators from the IMF, Paul Krugman, the economist, and other distinguished statespeople have identified part of the problem as simply being...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The agricultural budget is being cut by 10% for the first time in the lifetime of Common Agricultural Policy. That money cut from that budget would have put funding into rural economies and the wider economy. The youth employment guarantee fund represents about €122 per unemployed young person across Europe. It is not a question of abstract economic theories that people are spinning...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The budget has been cut, the banking union has been delayed and downscaled from what was originally envisaged and there will be no discussions on reforms until the end of next year. I do not get any sense of leadership emerging from Europe. In particular, I believe there needs to be a radical rethink of where Europe is going and how it is going about coming out of this crisis. I ask the...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: It should have been expanded at this time when we are in a recession.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will be distributing any documentation prior to the March EU Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12331/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he held any bilaterals when attending the EU Council meeting in March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14639/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to or held a bilateral with President Nicos Anastasiades of Cyprus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15985/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken or written to Mr Mario Monti since the recent election in Italy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16006/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to or had a bilateral with Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18350/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he circulated any papers at the most recent EU Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18354/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Five or six questions have been tabled. Deputy Adams asked what could be done to get more timely answers to the questions that were tabled before the last summit. I suggest we go back to the two-day arrangement that prevailed in previous Dáileanna, when the Taoiseach of the day took questions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. That might give us a bit more time. It seems to me from what...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach might discuss it with us before it becomes a fait accompli. We have been here for two and a half years now but no one has discussed a thing with me.