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Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----that there should be no Order of Business within the meaning of Standing Order 26. Can someone give me a rational explanation as to why?

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: Why is it that Leaders' Questions are being put back? Why is it that Oral Questions to the Taoiseach and Private Notice Questions are not being taken?

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: Anything that is potentially awkward for the Government is being put to one side and shelved. It really speaks to the intent of the Government in this Dáil to keep running, to keep ducking and diving and avoiding the hard questions.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: I do not know why the Deputies opposite are laughing, because that is what the Ministers have leaked to the media. They have said that their strategy is to hide the Taoiseach as often as they possibly can.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is what we are reading.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: We have been reading that for the last number of weeks - that they reduce-----

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: In fairness-----

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----I will say that the honourable exception to that rule is the Government Whip himself, who believes that the Taoiseach will rule forever and he will be looked after later.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: I put it to the Whip-----

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----that we are not going to accept this attitude and-----

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----contempt that the Government holds for the House-----

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----and the arrogance that is in the Government. I heard it from the Minister, Deputy Howlin, this morning: "We do not need to be answering questions about this. Move on quickly," and so on.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that 18 months ago on Leaders' Questions-----

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----when I asked the Taoiseach about why a Secretary General was sent out to the former Garda Commissioner, the Taoiseach's stock response was that the Government had appointed a commission of investigation and that he could not answer any question until that had been brought to a conclusion.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: Again, there are to be no questions on that today. He will answer no questions. The only thing he did was to appear on "Six One News"-----

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----ten minutes after the 300-odd pages were disseminated.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is all he did. He has run from this report ever since. By the way, the whole objective is to avoid being questioned on it. The Labour Party is so vulnerable and exposed by the Attorney General's behaviour in this scenario that it is ponying up support for the Taoiseach in a quid pro quooperation.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is cynicism at its worst and it is contemptuous.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: 984. To ask the Minister for Health his position on e-cigarettes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31396/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: 985. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department have plans to introduce legislation to ban the use of e-cigarettes in the workplace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31397/15]