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- Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, I have made no allegation. Why is the Taoiseach deliberately answering the question he was not asked?
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is the old sleeveen approach again.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should answer the question I asked, for God's sake.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should stop that old sleeveen carry on.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The people are fed up with it. There is a lack of integrity.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach knows damn well I did not.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: He said all that.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: We know all this. The Taoiseach is time-wasting.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Last week I asked some questions about the sale of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA’s Northern Ireland loan book to Cerberus, the circumstances surrounding it and the need for a commission of investigation to examine it. Prior to that, we had tabled several questions on the issue to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan. We note that representatives of NAMA...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Did it occur to anybody that the entire process should be withdrawn and that the deal should be pulled back from? One month later it was sold on to Cerberus following a competitive bid. The bottom line, however, is that the same two legal firms were involved. What happened after the sale? We learned about an offshore account in which £7 million had been placed. We learned that a...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: From March this year, everybody else has been in the dark about this. The Minister did not alert anybody here that there were serious issues surrounding the sale of the Northern Ireland loan book. By any definition, it was a serious issue that such a senior adviser to NAMA on the Northern Ireland loan book and who was on NAMA’s Northern Ireland advisory committee was subsequently...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: There are also concerns about the interaction between the Northern Ireland Executive and NAMA. The Minister for Finance had five contacts, namely, three meetings and two telephone calls, with Northern Ireland politicians on the sale of the NAMA loan book. That is separate from the biannual meetings between Northern Ministers and their counterparts in the Republic. This is a concern,...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach not concerned about this? Why was it that, when the Minister for Finance was informed of this serious development with NAMA ,that the entire sales process was not withdrawn?
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 134. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the contributions he made at the European Union Council meeting on 7 July 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28379/15]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 135. To ask the Taoiseach if he attended any bilateral meetings at the European Union Council meeting on 7 July 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28380/15]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 136. To ask the Taoiseach the contact he has had with the Chancellor of Germany, Ms Angela Merkel, since the recent referendum in Greece; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28381/15]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 137. To ask the Taoiseach the discussion held at the European Union Council meeting on 7 July 2015 regarding the 50% level of youth unemployment in Greece, and methods to tackle this issue in the short term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28383/15]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 138. To ask the Taoiseach the differences in the suggested solutions from the European Union Council meeting in June 2015 to the European Union Council meeting on 7 July 2015 in terms of addressing the issue of Greek debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28384/15]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 139. To ask the Taoiseach the discussions held on changing the role of the European Central Bank at the European Union Council meeting on 7 July 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28385/15]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 140. To ask the Taoiseach the contact he has had with the President of the European Commission, Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, since the outcome of the recent referendum in Greece; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28387/15]