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Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: Having collapsed the business of this democratically elected Parliament, Sinn Féin then did what it always does; it played the victim and blamed others for the scenes it had planned and orchestrated. Having broken every rule governing behaviour in the Dáil and making it impossible to hear anything, the party is not only disputing the Ceann Comhairle's ruling, it also disputing the...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: It should also acknowledge that the simple fact is that the majority of those in this Parliament supported the motion before the House, while the Opposition ignored every basic rule and democratic principle in trying to block it. It is important that everyone understands that this new aggression has been extended to other areas. Until the start of this Dáil, the tradition had been...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: If we continue to see this extreme escalation in the rhetoric deployed in debating every issue, the change to our political culture will be permanent and deeply destructive. It is extremely sad that two parties which claimed to the electorate that they are centre left have been full participants in Sinn Féin's cynical strategy of escalating rhetoric and disruption. They cannot even...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: Over the past few months, I have talked with many other European leaders about the growth of extreme politics, and the impact it is having on their parliaments. The disruptions we have seen here-----

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----and the attack on the Ceann Comhairle are very much part of a pattern where extreme parties have sought to undermine public faith in the idea that anything can be achieved. The one consistent message from every country is to stand firmly against this behaviour. If it is accepted as normal, it will be destructive of parliamentary democracy. This Dáil is still in its relatively...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: We do not have the time to waste on this effort to remove the Ceann Comhairle because she would not bow down before an Opposition which demands that the minority have the right to veto our business. This attempt at what I would say is a strategy of aggression and disruption will fail. Those of us on this side are willing to make this Dáil work. There has to be a will on all sides to...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Government is up for doing that and will work day and night to make it happen. We will then be able to get on with doing the people's business.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: They do not have to protest at all. We had protests a year or two ago that were quite violent.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I am not saying the Mothers Against Genocide protesters were doing that; they were not. However, everybody in this House railed against the Garda for not having operational procedures to ensure access to, and egress from, Leinster House.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the Deputies. Protestors do not have to block the gates of Leinster House.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: What happened then was the Garda gave a direction under the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act. That is what the Garda formally did. There was no physical engagement; gardaí just gave a direction. I am informed that the individuals were given a period of time to adhere to the direction. That direction was not complied with and 11 people were then arrested for offences contrary to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is a horrible assertion. It is a demonstrably false assertion and a misreading that is absolutely wrong. It should not be made.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: Deputies complain from time to time about assertions made about them and others. That assertion is very fundamentally wrong. It speaks to a kind of philosophy and mindset that is about how they can blame the Government or Irish parliamentarians for what is going on in Gaza and not the Israeli Government.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: Those Deputies' approach always seems to be, "Let us blame the Irish Government", rather than putting the blame where the fault lies. They are attempting to drive a wedge between the Irish people and the Irish public representatives who are not of their persuasion.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I move: That Dáil Éireann has confidence in the Ceann Comhairle, Verona Murphy T.D. As we begin this debate, I hope members of the Opposition will allow others to be heard and will not engage in the systematic barracking we have seen in recent months. This is an extremely serious debate that goes to the heart of a range of fundamental issues about how this democratic...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: Over the past 106 years, the Standing Orders and structures of daily business of Dáil Éireann have changed regularly and often quite radically. There has never been a requirement for all parties to agree a change before it can be implemented. There has never before been a debate as long and as disruptive as there has been on these changes - changes that will mean the Irish...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I thank all the Deputies who raised the issue. I will make the fundamental point that the establishment of the national security council is about creating a proper structure to ensure democratic accountability on national security matters, and proper co-ordination between all Departments and between An Garda Síochána and the Defence Forces. As Taoiseach, I will chair it, and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: More recent plans are much more towards broadleaf trees and a proper mixture. We need commercial forestry as well. Deputy Murphy called it for-profit forestry. We need timber. Timber-frame housing is more climate friendly than cement. We need a better balance. We cannot just ridicule forestry for profit. We need a commercial forestry sector. We also need greater biodiversity and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 14 to 24, inclusive, together. The programme for Government, Securing Ireland's Future, sets out a number of commitments relating to our national security and defence. The programme acknowledges that we live in a time of geopolitical upheaval and challenges to democracy and the international rules-based order with threats and challenges arising from a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: Are we eating into the time for the next questions?

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