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- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am entitled to speak. This is a very important Bill. We all have people coming to us who are in mortgage arrears and who are worried about the power of the banks and the attitude of the banks to them.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: David Hall has said that up to 50 new repossession cases are coming before the courts every month.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: He has said there is an increased frequency in the level of approaches of that kind to people in mortgage arrears. No conditionality is being attached-----
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: There is no independent------
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am endeavouring to make my contribution but, in line with the authoritarian streak evident in this Government, all we get is Deputies of the Government parties trying to shout down Members of the Opposition when they raise legitimate questions on the Order of Business about the guillotining of Bills, unnecessarily.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: There is no necessity to guillotine this Bill. The spokespeople should be allowed proper time and space to table amendments, to discuss and vote on them. There was no need to guillotine the last measure either.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I know that and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, knows that as well. However, it is being done for the convenience of Government and for the convenience of the Government backbenchers.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is a disgrace. It is treating the House with contempt and treating the programme for Government with contempt as well.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: No.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: Again, I object to the guillotining of this Bill. Twenty-seven amendments have been tabled to that particular legislation and approximately one hour and 20 minutes has been allocated to go through them. This is the third item of legislation this morning the Government is insisting be guillotined through this House.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: Again, this is the Government running the House, deciding what gets debated and for how long, as well as how much time is given for individual amendments. This is jackboot politics and jackboot parliamentarianism.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: This is what goes on in here, day in and day out. It flies in the face of what the Government stated it would do in the programme for Government. The Government should tear up the programme for Government and at least be consistent and honest in its approach to the Dáil and Dáil reform.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: While the truth hurts, recent research has demonstrated the degree to which the Government has flouted its own commitments in the programme for Government in respect of Dail reform. I refer, for example, to the non-attendance last week by the Minister during large parts of the Private Members' Bill on education. Moreover, the number of times Ministers do not turn up for Topical Issue...
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is what he said on the front page of The Irish Times.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I agree with the Chief Whip-----
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I agree with him that the performance of the Government in respect of Dáil reform has been truly deplorable.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: Will the Minister give a commitment to Members that this is the last of this kind of series of measures that would be put before the House before the summer recess?
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Government should have some respect for the House. The Government intends to get rid of the other House and wants to get rid of urban councils.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: Moreover, it is giving people in the Gaeltacht no vote on who represents them on Údarás na Gaeltachta.
- Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: All that will be left is this House, and as far as the Government is concerned, that suits it fine.