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- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: What is the Taoiseach going to do about it?
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has the power to initiate legislation.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Today, 1 July, is the deadline for the banks to get back to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, on the provision of reductions for variable rate mortgages. The Taoiseach must accept that the Minister's initiative has been somewhat of a flop because only two of the six lenders have made minor reductions to their standard variable rate mortgages and one of those was made before the...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: There are times when I genuinely do not know what planet the Taoiseach is living on.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: To be frank, the banks have told the Government where to go, and they have told the Minister where to go. Only two banks have responded. AIB made a reduction of 0.25%, a very minor reduction. The reduction announced by KBC was very convoluted and even more minor again in terms of its impact. Bank of Ireland has not reduced the SV rate. It has left it untouched. Ulster Bank has not...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: What will be done about the situation? We have endeavoured to be constructive. Deputy Michael McGrath has produced well-researched legislation. A legislative response is required. At a very minimum, the 46,000 whose loans have been bought up by vulture funds are extraordinarily vulnerable to arbitrary hikes in the rates. Does the Taoiseach accept that legislation is required? I do not...
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. Again, we object to the manner in which the Government is ramming this through the House. In particular, as I outlined earlier, the substance of the issue has to do with Irish Water and the method of extracting charges from people and also, essentially, the transfer of €540 million from property taxes to Irish Water. I object to the idea the Government would only...
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order-----
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: This is a very serious matter.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is wrong.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: With the greatest respect, on a point of order-----
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am respecting the Chair, but I have a point of order that I wish to raise.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: I can raise a point of order.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: I want to invoke Standing Orders 131 and 136
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: Standing Order 131 only allows amendments not in conflict with the principle of the Bill to be discussed.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am saying what the Taoiseach has done is out of order.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: As has been said, €540 million will be transferred from the property tax to Irish Water without debate. A one-hour debate is not acceptable. These are substantive first time amendments, but the Government thinks it can deal with them on Report Stage and that a one-hour debate will suffice. It is a disgrace.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: The point on Standing Order 136-----
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am invoking Standing Orders.
- Order of Business (30 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is riding roughshod over the procedures of the House. Standing Order 136 states, "...no new section or other amendment may be proposed which creates a charge on the public revenue-----