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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not say that to Deputy Peter Mathews when he recruited him for the last general election. He has a different tune now.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Financial Services Sector (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach deserves a medal for filibustering.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: It is not agreed to. I seek clarification from the Taoiseach. Will he explain the background to this motion? We did not receive the Order Paper circulated earlier. I have just received it and consulted the Chief Whip. Why is there to be no debate on that motion and what is the background to it?

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: From what I can gather, there is a significant lack of accountability to the House on this issue. This is coming in under the radar without debate, for example, on the inadequacies of the 2012 Act, the unintended consequences, as the Taoiseach described them, which, again, precluded the Ombudsman for Children from hearing complaints regarding children in detention. I cannot understand why...

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Did people know this with the original Bill?

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Was it valid then? How far does it go back?

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: It seems from what the Taoiseach has said that the intentions of the Oireachtas were not put into effect over the past 12 months and nobody knew about that. Nobody was told about them.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Am I right that 12 months ago it was the intention of the Oireachtas to ensure reports could be made on children in detention? Is it the case that what people thought they passed was not passed and nobody knew anything about it until now or that has not been published? Nobody has got any clarification on that.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Was the House made aware of that at the time?

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Should it not have been?

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: That would not matter. It is basic procedure that if the House passes something and it turns out that the House thought it passed something, but it had not -----

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: In getting the clarity, I have discovered something else.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is missing the point.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: For 12 months people held the belief that the Ombudsman for Children could raise these issues, but now it has transpired that -----

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: In terms of the legislation, getting it wrong makes the consequence serious in that the Ombudsman for Children could not do what she wanted to do or that everybody wanted to giver her the power to do, the least the House deserved in a situation like that is a statement from the Minister responsible.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Is there any chance we could get the legal advice? I think we should.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am going to oppose it now.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach publish the legal advice on it?

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am not against its principle. The Taoiseach is missing my point.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: No, let us be clear, the Taoiseach and the Minister knew about six or nine months ago that something was wrong here, but they never advised the Dáil of that. They should have, and that is the point.