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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I do not accept the view that anyone who says anything against the leader of Sinn Féin or against the Sinn Féin Party is somehow to be demonised and just dismissed as being anti-peace process. We are asked please not to take any heed whatsoever of anything that has been said or written and take no heed of what is in the Belfast oral history project. We are to ignore all of that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is what people find difficult to fathom.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Adams is in a far better position than anybody in this House to make a comprehensive statement, not only on the McConville case but also generally. As Brendan Hughes asks in the book, who met Willie Whitelaw, and why?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is to that hypocrisy that I am referring. Nobody outside Deputy Adams's set believes he was never in the IRA; that is the bottom line and what people balk at.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: Sorry?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: No, I did not, actually.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: To be blunt about it, you need to be careful about who you are accusing. There were too many people within your own fold who collaborated.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy has.
- Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: With regard to the funding of the health service and the commitment on page 6 of the programme for Government to ensure significant cost control, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has highlighted concerns about further overspending by the Department of Health. Will the Taoiseach clarify the position? I refer to health priorities in the programme for Government. When will the...
- Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach correspond with me on these issues?
- Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach.
- Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: The water torture Bill.
- Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Chief Whip knows all about torture, given the events of the past week.
- Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: Not in Killarney.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to concerns regarding a teacher being reinstated in a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33546/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: 285. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied that there was enough progress made on youth unemployment during the Irish Presidency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31473/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Issues (9 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: 467. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to concerns regarding child safety in a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33547/13]
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: The failure of a large number of defined-benefit pension schemes, involving an estimated 30,000 workers, to submit recovery plans to the regulator before 30 June confirms, if we needed it, the crisis facing the pensions of thousands of workers across the country and illustrates the absolute need for the Government to intervene in this crisis. Many schemes will close over the coming months....
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is an extremely depressing response. The Taoiseach has simply read out what the Minister for Justice and Equality read out yesterday in the House to Deputy Willie O'Dea, who had raised this issue. The Government is fiddling on it, while pensions are burning fast. Schemes may close in the coming weeks and months, with no respite for workers. We know what happened in the case of Irish...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Government knows what the facts are.