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Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (3 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: 416. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received requests to meet the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association; if she will agree to their request for a meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4427/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (3 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: 415. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a specific financial allocation by the Health Service Executive to patients who suffer from Prader-Willi syndrome or if it is part of the mental health care budget in general; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4426/15]

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: No.

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: We all get the big picture but yesterday was a silent movie because nobody could speak. I want to make a point to the Tánaiste who appears to be condoning the silencing of Parliament yesterday. There have been many tribunals of inquiry established in this House. I set up quite a number of them myself. When I set up the inquiry into physical and sexual abuse in industrial schools, at...

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is a serious issue for Members of the House collectively in terms of the restrictions that are now implicitly, because of yesterday's ruling, being placed on this House.

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday, the Opposition had to walk out of this House-----

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----because a very serious situation had occurred.

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: I just hope that Members in all parties understand what happened yesterday. Standing Order 57 was invoked in an unprecedented manner that silenced the House in its capacity to debate serious legislation establishing a commission of investigation into matters of fundamental concern pertaining to the administration of justice. Standing Order 57 was originally brought into being to prevent the...

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: The action concerned is not before a jury. How does a debate often start? The Ceann Comhairle or Leas-Cheann Comhairle states "notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders". That could have happened yesterday. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle or the Acting Chairman could have squared off the issue pertaining to Deputy Shatter's legal representations by warning Members not to say anything that...

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: Will the Tánaiste comment on this matter? I ask the Leas-Cheann Comhairle to bring what I have said to the attention of the Ceann Comhairle. What happened yesterday was a grave perversion of parliamentary democracy.

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. I do not intend to force a physical vote on this. I just want to highlight my grave reservations about the import and impact of this Bill, the implications of which have not been widely circulated. I have been informed by my party Whip that the Whips were informed at a meeting of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges that significant limitations are to be imposed on...

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: With respect, why is there such secrecy about it?

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: Very few people know about this.

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: A comprehensive presentation of the implications of any Bill like this should be made before it is put before the House. The point is that this will limit the degree to which the Central Bank can co-operate with the inquiry.

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: It seems that any Member of either House of the Oireachtas to whom confidential information is provided and who fails to comply with the provisions of professional secrecy in respect of that information may be subject to the sanction of the Houses of the Oireachtas in accordance with the rules set down in Standing Orders. The actual implications of this are quite serious. The members of the...

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: The new Standing Order has not been put before the House yet.

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: How dare you.

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: I appeal to the Chair to protect me from the interventions of Deputy Stagg, who is completely out of order.

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is a serious matter. I am being brief.

Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: I want to get to the key point. I do not know why people are objecting and heckling.