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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: These were not sold as options. It was a sold as a done deal that there would be no hard border.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: These were not sold at the time as options.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: He might take a supplementary.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach take a supplementary?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Before Christmas, it was sold as a done deal, and now it is an option. Will we have a debate on it?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: I thought it was a deal. Was the deal sound?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: I have to contrast the press conference with this presentation.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Donnelly thought it was legally binding that Ireland was the focus.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Do not worry, the clock was well run down. The Taoiseach was never getting to Trump.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did it well.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: There are four questions in this group, ranging from Estonia to Washington. I agree with Deputy Howlin that we need a specific session on the December deal, which we were told was bulletproof. I am not talking about the common travel area or the recognition of European citizenship rights; they were always there and non-contentious. The key issue was the regulatory alignment and essentially...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy would never guess. He tried to wipe it out of the historical narrative on one occasion.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: On a substantive issue, at the bilateral meeting the future of the European Union's budget was discussed. The Estonian Prime Minister subsequently outlined his Government's policy. What is the status of the Taoiseach's comments concerning the next European Union budget? Last week the Taoiseach told us his speech to the European Parliament was a personal statement and not a statement of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Nobody else was to get the glory.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, I have noticed in the past two weeks the lumping of questions that are quite different into one group, which is not acceptable. We stopped this way back. I noticed that the same thing happened last week. This week, we have lumped together Estonia, Germany, travel plans all over Europe and the US into one group.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: It does not help us to plan in terms of preparation for questions to the Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate that but I would like some-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: On 22 May last year, the Taoiseach's predecessor said that the date and any element of the national security meetings should be kept confidential. The Taoiseach has obviously changed this approach by tweeting the date and attendance of a meeting. What is the current position on the public status of the committee? Has the Government moved to a system where the dates and rotating attendance,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach his travel plans over the next two months. [6905/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Chancellor Merkel since she has formed a government. [7443/18]