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- Leaders' Questions (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is leader of the Government and cannot stand up and say whether it is right or wrong for a Minister for Justice to use private information given to him by An Garda Síochána to undermine a political opponent. That is the level he is at.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the undocumented Irish with President Obama at his meeting in March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13586/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the situation in Syria with President Obama at his meeting in March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13587/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the lack of progress made in relation to an independent inquiry into the murder of Mr Pat Finucane with President Obama; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13588/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the bilaterals he attended when visiting the USA in March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13589/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the new EU-US free trade agreement with President Obama; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13612/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 17. To ask the Taoiseach the issues that were discussed with Mr. Stephen Spielberg when he met him; the actions, if any, that he will take as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15990/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide the details of his meeting with Vice President Biden; the further actions that will be taken as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15993/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he met any Republican Senators in relation to the undocumented Irish in his most recent visit to Washington; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17251/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Some 25 questions were covered in that reply and I had submitted eight questions. A number of broad areas were covered by the questions and the answer, including the G8 agenda, the undocumented Irish, Mr. Pat Finucane, the Israeli peace process in Gaza, Guantánamo Bay and the EU-US trade agreement. Europe and the US are still caught in what has been the worst economic downturn in 70...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: I referred to the context of the EU-US trade agreement.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Travel (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: I think it is about parliamentary accountability.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: No. The decision to table this proposition is a pre-emptive strike to prevent a situation in which the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, would come into the House to be specifically examined about his behaviour in releasing private information supplied to him by An Garda Síochána on the public airwaves to undermine a political opponent. Members on this side of the...
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: No, it is not.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is not what will happen.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: No, I am not.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach means a private notice question.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: However, he will not address the issue of what he did with Deputy Mick Wallace’s information. That is the point I am trying to make. That is the specific issue.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is what parliamentary accountability is all about. The Taoiseach is dodging it.
- Order of Business (21 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: On the thirty-third amendment of the Constitution, the Government in its programme for Government has committed to holding a referendum to protect the right of citizens to communicate in confidence with public representatives. Given that it claims to be protecting the rights of citizens, on the one hand, it is somewhat ironic that it is proposing this amendment as it blatantly misuses...