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Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: But he should be in here.

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is the greatest bar. A special notice question was tabled yesterday-----

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: ----- and it was not accepted.

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: I have been in this House for a long time-----

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: ----- and on matters of this gravity, Ministers always have come in.

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Can we have a reply from the Minister first?

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Will the Minister ensure that the Government makes time available for a debate on the grave issues that have arisen consequent on the confidential recipient, Mr. Oliver Connolly, being relieved of his duties? Some serious issues have been raised in that context and it is appropriate that Members of this House on all sides would have an opportunity to contribute to such a debate and that the...

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is a matter for Government.

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Are they more important than the other issues we discussed today?

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday afternoon, members of the family of Sylvia Roche Kelly, her mother, sisters and brother, came to see me at their request. They told me that up to quite recently, they were never told anything about the totality of issues surrounding the murder of their daughter and sister. They were unaware that the person who had murdered Sylvia Roche Kelly had some months earlier savagely...

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----to come before the House and admit he got it wrong in regard to that key point. He could resolve a lot of issues if he had the humility to come before the House and admit he was wrong to do what he did on that occasion.

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Of course I accept that he is not in a position, in any shape or form, to arbitrate on or test the veracity of the very serious material in the dossier he has. However, that material was with the Minister two years ago and was supplied to the confidential recipient over two years ago. The Taoiseach knows, having read it, that the material jumps out at...

Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The decision had been made to have one.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Appointments (25 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the board appointments he has made recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50123/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Appointments (25 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for the comprehensive nature of his reply. I accept that many of the appointments he makes would fall under the Department of the Taoiseach or either be nominations by outside bodies or, as the Taoiseach said in one instance in the reply, the appointment of civil servants to a board. As the Taoiseach knows, the proposed chairmen of State boards were to go before...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Appointments (25 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----ultimately to get the people they want to submit the application.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Appointments (25 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The only quick comment I would make is that I watched an episode of "Yes Minister" recently and both Hacker and Sir Humphrey were of the view that it was important to get somebody who was sound-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Appointments (25 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----and that seems to be the predominant view of the Ministers as well.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): State Visits (25 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he held any bilateral meetings in Japan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52569/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): State Visits (25 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if the issue of Japanese-Chinese relations were discussed at the bilateral with Prime Minister Abe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53723/13]