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- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Stagg, Labour's Whip, does not agree with the Tánaiste. That is in black and white in his letter to his constituent.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Stagg wrote, "I simply fail to see how cutting the income of the very ones who are making a real effort to improve the lot of their families and themselves help them in some way to get out of the poverty trap. It clearly has the opposite effect. I will continue to press for a reversal of this bad decision."
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: He even wrote that he understood fully why this constituent would never vote for the party again. That is what he wrote in his e-mail.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Stagg wrote that he would continue trying to convince the Tánaiste-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----who was wrong, to reverse the bad decision.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The lone parents and children who are suffering do not give a damn about Joan Burton having a cut off Micheál Martin. To them, that sums up the detachment from politics of those in government. What they really want to hear is who will bridge the gap for them-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----who will pay to enable them to get their children to school next September and who will enable them to get petrol to get to work in order to provide funding for child care.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, but I am not worried. They do not really-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: They are not into the argy bargy of politics. It is meaningless to them.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: That type of stuff the Tánaiste is going on with is meaningless to them.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: What they really want to hear is whether there is any glimmer of hope that the Tánaiste will see the light and accept that this measure, which she introduced on 1 July, is having a devastating impact on a significant number of lone parents and their children.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will the Tánaiste do something to change this? Everyone in the House is saying it, but she refuses to be convinced. Even her own party is saying it.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am on the ground. The Tánaiste is not. That is the problem with her.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am not making up this. These are the very people who-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: FIS is not available to them.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Someone said she communicated with the Tánaiste but did not hear a dicky bird back.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: People have said they have gone to the Tánaiste. They have listened to her.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will give the Tánaiste a bit of advice. This kind of political grandstanding has no impact-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----or does not seek to persuade the people whom I identified this morning. It does not convince the woman who wrote to SPARK, for example, who is down €70 per week. She said she did not want to go into the figures because she would get a lump in her throat, and that she dreaded the thought of winter. All of the letters and e-mails that we are getting are saying that people cannot...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: One woman said that she must now tell her child to stay indoors until 1 p.m. when she returned. The Tánaiste promised a Scandinavian-type child care provision-----