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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: I got those responses. According to all of them, nothing that I have mentioned will happen.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Many of the legislative measures and proposals in the programme will not happen. There has been a change in policy. The programme for Government should be realistic.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Less is being made available. Does the Taoiseach not know that?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is not being upfront about it. There is less.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but not by the Oireachtas.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: No, it has to be a tribunal.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the implementation of the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37633/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate that, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I thank the Taoiseach. I submitted this question because I have been puzzled for quite a long time about the enormous gap between the reality on the ground regarding the implementation of the programme for Government and the actual programme itself. Nowhere is this more evident than in the "health and mental health" section of the "fairness"...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is not correct. Cabinet confidentiality was in place long before 1997. What happened in 1997, and I stand corrected, was that there was an amendment to facilitate the breaching of Cabinet confidentiality in circumstances of a tribunal of inquiry going to a High Court in matters of public interest and getting access to Cabinet documentation. If I am not mistaken that was in regard to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: It did.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: But we are being asked to pass the Central Bank (Amendment) Bill this week.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The entire House should get a presentation because the House passed the terms of reference-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----for setting up the banking inquiry. It is reasonable to say that at that stage people should have been made aware-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----of the limitations on what could come from the Central Bank. I do not think anyone is aware of the extraordinary limitations now in place, and that will be in place. All I am asking is that a comprehensive presentation would be made to all Members of the House, including legal advice and everything else because every Member of the House voted. That is only reasonable because they did...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate the-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: It would be excusable if it was the work of one Deputy, but it is worrying that is the work of more than one.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the programme for Government commitment on Cabinet confidentiality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37632/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach explain why it is in the programme for Government that legislation relating to Cabinet confidentiality will be changed? It is in black and white and I have asked the Taoiseach about this before. Will he explain why he bothered putting this into the programme for Government at the outset? What was the objective and the intention behind its inclusion? Why did the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: It states:We will radically overhaul the way Irish politics and Government work. The failures of the political system [...]. Government is too centralised and unaccountable. We believe that there must also be a real shift in power from the State to the citizen.These were the heady days of 2011. The next line states "We will legislate on the issue of Cabinet confidentiality" and other...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: No. When negotiating a programme for Government, parties outline their objectives. They might list X, Y and Z, indicating that they will deal with freedom of information or the Official Secrets Act, which the Government indicated it would amend, for certain reasons. For some reason, both parties agreed to formally insert a commitment as follows: "We will legislate on the issue of Cabinet...