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Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: 3 o’clock Procedurally, we have no objection to giving up our Private Members' time to facilitate the Taoiseach and Tánaiste to make statements about this matter and to be questioned about it. I would accede to that.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: Yes.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: In respect of University Hospital Waterford and the very sad and tragic event that took place over Sunday, I sympathise with the Power family after the tragic loss of Mr. Thomas Power. As the Taoiseach knows, a young farmer who had only got married last year was told on arrival at University Hospital Waterford that the cardiac care unit was closed at the weekend. He was taken by ambulance to...

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: I was not consulted by the Government-----

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: What is the Taoiseach saying? I do not understand.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: The arrogance of the Taoiseach is quite astounding. He has now given the revelation as to why he rammed this through on Sunday.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: No, through the point I am making-----

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: I am going to come to the point.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: I will of course, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: Yes, and I am going to come to procedure.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: Of course. However, in talking about the procedure, I want to give the rationale as to why I am pursuing this. My whole purpose of tabling the amendment was in the context of an attempt being made to avoid accountability to the House with regard to the appointment of the former Attorney General to the Court of Appeal. That was the design all along. I said to the Taoiseach last week on the...

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: Yes.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: I propose to amend the Order of Business and that the sequence in which business is taken-----

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: I believe one can. On quite a number of occasions in recent weeks, we have amended the order as put forward by the Business Committee. It seems extraordinary to me now that an attempt is being made to suggest we cannot. I just wish to amend the order as proposed. The House is entitled to do this.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: The House sets its own business and it is entitled to do this. I am amending the Order of Business so we can take-----

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: Yes.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: The appointment was made on Sunday and nobody was consulted-----

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. Given the fact that last week I asked that there be proper accountability to the House for the appointment of the former Attorney General, Máire Whelan, to the Court of Appeal and given the manner in which the Taoiseach and the Government decided to ram through the appointment yesterday morning in advance of the Dáil convening, I am of the view that the business...

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: I am giving the rationale for opposing the order as proposed, as I am entitled to do. It is also important to correct the record of the House regarding the former Attorney General, John Murray. He was appointed in 1992, three years before the 1995 Act was implemented. When I say this is the first time in nearly a quarter of a century that an Attorney General has been appointed in this...

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Micheál Martin: We must have honesty, frankness, less obfuscation and less clouding of the truth. All we seek is the truth. I propose, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that at 5 p.m. other business be suspended to provide for statements on and questions concerning the nomination by the Government of the former Attorney General, Máire Whelan, to serve in the Court of Appeal. The order of...