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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee at which Israel and Palestine is discussed. [48835/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: Is this question about Israel?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: That was not marked on my paper; I thought it was coming later. The situation in Palestine has got dramatically worse throughout the year. Before the last Israeli general election, Prime Minister Netanyahu followed a strategy of becoming more extreme and anti-Arab by the day. Much of this was, frankly, racist. He was calling on Israeli Jews to be scared of their Arab fellow citizens. ...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: And party leaders.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: It is a minute and a half anyway. What is the problem?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: We have a long established mechanism that we work it out here.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: That is fair enough.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: We have lost a minute now.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: That is not fair. These are Taoiseach's Questions, which cover a wide range of issues. I did not introduce this system, but since it came in via the Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform, party leaders have been given a minute and a half. Anyone else who wanted to contribute has always been facilitated.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: It is by definition-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: It is not fair to brand this as a particular issue only being given a minute and a half. That is not fair.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: It is not easy. That is not fair.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is branding people wrongly and she should not be doing so.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: If we want to have a discussion on the broader subject, we can have it at the Business Committee
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy has a habit of creating a row. I am just trying to be helpful-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: The current Citizens' Assembly is primarily concerned with issues raised at the Constitutional Convention, the more grandly named previous Citizens' Assembly, which reported approximately five years ago. The assembly on gender equality is due to hold its first meeting in January and we wish it well in its work. This is different in that, unlike previous assemblies that dealt with issues...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: That is not the question I asked.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Farrell now knows how awfully hard it is for us.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: On 28 September 2015, there was a banner headline in The Irish Times, "Nationwide ban on smoky coal due within the next year". Last Monday,there was again a headline in The Irish Times to the effect that the Government would take action on the smoky coal ban but when one reads the detail, one will see it is a consultation framework and it is being referred to councils. This is more ducking...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)
Micheál Martin: He has written a fair few.