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Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Government is shortening the time today.

Order of Business (21 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: We have filled our slots for the debate before this change. If the Government wants to continue the debate next week, we have no difficulty with it. Clarification is important. Is the Government not in a position to fill the slots today?

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: Tomorrow, more than 700 secondary schools will close, which is very regrettable for students in particular, particularly those doing examinations. It is all because of the approach the Government originally took to junior cycle reform and in particular, the assessment dimension and the former Minister, Deputy Quinn, ignoring the recommendations of the National Council for Curriculum and...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: The issue is that the Minister has brought us back to where we were three years ago because the original NCCA working group recommended a 60:40 divide with 60% being given to a written terminal examination and 40% being given to assessment. The former Minister just unilaterally ignored the NCCA working group and went off on his own singular move to say that we will abolish external...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE National Service Plan (21 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: 157. To ask the Minister for Health if a revised Health Service Executive plan will be published to take account of cancelling elective surgery and admissions and reallocation of resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2929/15]

Northern Ireland and the Stormont House Agreement: Statements (20 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: The great achievements of the peace process were a triumph for democrats on this island who were willing to invest enormous time and patience into bringing a murderous minority to abandon violence. The overwhelming majority of people believed and still believe that we have a duty to work for a shared future for everybody who lives on this island. The breakthroughs of achieving ceasefires, a...

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is all changed now.

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is a two-for-one strategy.

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: This is completely out of order.

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is out of order.

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach cannot play fast and loose with the Order of Business.

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: We made that proposal three years ago.

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: And FEMPI?

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach says.

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has some neck. Get off the stage. "The money follows the patient."

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: What about the election after that?

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Government said it would get rid of it.

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach rewrite the programme for Government now that it will not happen in the lifetime of this Government? Is the Dutch model gone?

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Dutch model is gone.

Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)

Micheál Martin: "The money follows the patient." It was a fair old election slogan.