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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: It was a notable omission.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: It is not happening.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: On No. 10, my colleague Deputy Billy Kelleher is very anxious that we get a commitment from the Government that the proposal for the development of a prison in Rathmore, Cork, would come back to the Dáil for a plenary discussion as there is significant concern about the nature of it. It is important that the matter would come back to the House for debate. We are opposing how the Social...

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: I only wanted to know whether it would be brought back for debate.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. Yesterday we received the first report card on Ministers. It will be recalled that the Taoiseach promised this some time ago on “The Late Late Show”. The report cards came in the unlikely form of a statement by the Minister of State, Deputy Paul Kehoe, the Chef Whip, when he spoke recently on Dáil reform, the guillotining of debate on legislation and...

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: In fairness to the Chief Whip, he accepted the appearance rate of the relevant senior Minister was unacceptably low and unsatisfactory, saying, “I would be first to say that it is deplorable that some Ministers are calling for Dáil reform and, at the same time, do not co-operate with reform.” That is hard-hitting stuff from the Chief Whip.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: The programme for Government states the Government will “tackle the huge over-use of guillotines to ram through non-emergency legislation”. It continues: While recognising that there may be exceptional circumstances in which debate may need to be concluded by a given deadline, we will restrict the use of guillotine motions and other procedural devices that prevent Bills from...

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: Lo and behold, we discover, courtesy of a forensic article in The Irish Times yesterday, that the debates on 52 of 92 Bills, or 57%, introduced by the Government have been guillotined.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: Contrary to the democratic revolution promised, this is arrogance and cynicism on a breath-taking scale. We are talking about serious legislation such as the property tax and the social welfare Bill before Christmas. We could not even get amendments discussed on the cutting of the respite care grant or child benefit. It was the same with the property tax legislation, with no debate on any...

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach wants to abolish the Seanad.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: This is the kind of Executive diktat that the Taoiseach wants to become the order of the day.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: The commitments made in the programme for Government have been breached. These are commitments the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine made, with the Taoiseach and the Labour Party.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: There is meant to be a gap of two weeks between every Stage. The Government has some neck.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: The property tax legislation was dealt with in 24 hours and the social welfare Bill in 48.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Government has clearly ignored or abandoned the programme for Government.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is why we are opposing the guillotining of the debate on the Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. It is not in compliance with the programme for Government and is unnecessarily restricting debate, contrary to all the commitments and promises the Government made at the outset of this Dáil session.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am not talking about heads of Bills; I am talking about the guillotining that the Taoiseach has been doing since he came into office. Stop the nonsense and the blather.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: We have had two and a half years of him going on about this.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: Act out what you preach.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle, it is a bit much.