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Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: Those plans are there anyway.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is an understatement

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: No, I did not. The Economic Management Council voted for that money.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Economic Management Council took the decisions on water.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: They cannot even read them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is true.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: Other technicalities are associated with domestic meters.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: So when one becomes Tánaiste, one becomes supportive of it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: I put three questions to the Taoiseach in respect of the Economic Management Council. He dismissed any concerns relating to the EMC. However, it was the Tánaiste, Deputy Burton, who first articulated major concerns about the council. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Coveney, and the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy White, have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and many of the other Deputies opposite voted against the measures introduced by the previous Government but they are now claiming credit for them. They are also claiming credit for the work the late Brian Lenihan did as Minister for Finance. However, that is politics. The rationale put forward by the Taoiseach in respect of the establishment of the...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: My party is not agreeing to the late sitting. It is appalling and farcical what is going on. I genuinely say that. There is no need for this. We are debating the order of today's business at 7.50 p.m.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is farcical.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It would not happen in any organisation.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is not the reason.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is not the reason. We could have had the motion of confidence and the Private Members' motion, and that would be that. There is no need for this.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is just an awful ramshackle, ham-fisted-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is a ham-fisted, ridiculous and farcical way of ordering the business of this House. I would ask the Taoiseach to postpone No. 31, for example, which is to be debated for just one hour before adjourning, which could potentially bring us through to 1.30 a.m. or 1.45 a.m.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: 2 o'clock? Have we lost our marbles in this House completely?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: Has the Taoiseach not learned anything from the last occasion when we-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: One second, a Cheann Comhairle; this is important - when we went beyond midnight-----