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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is just to dilute your culpability.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Used.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: There are organisations that have information which could be useful.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Since when are we all agreed on that?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The McGuinness approach has been to dilute republican culpability in this. The McGuinness formula is a con job in many respects.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: There must be a specific forum and mechanism.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The strategy of Sinn Féin has always been-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----to bury what it does not like from the past. It is selective in what it wants interrogated about the past.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is what Sinn Féin has always been about.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I accept the Taoiseach's bona fides in endeavouring to deal with this issue. He is correct in saying that, in the Paudie McGahon case, we are talking about a safe house. I think Deputy Adams and those in Sinn Féin-IRA will have been very well aware of the circumstances of this for a long time, just as they were well aware of the Maíria Cahill case for a long time but chose to do...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: What allegations have I made?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am just referring to the Dáil debate.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but the context of my question is the establishing of a mechanism to deal with this on the public record. This is not an allegation. I am not making an allegation at all in regard to this. Deputy Adams himself has said that this is the way the Provisional IRA dealt with these issues, and that it was unfortunate and that it was a pity it happened that way. He then tried to say it was...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It just beggars belief that he would come forward here and pretend that he knows nothing about this-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----or about the procedures or protocols, and so on. It just beggars belief. That is the point in regard to all of it. This is not something new. I think the Taoiseach needs to work with either the British Prime Minister or the Minister of Justice in Northern Ireland in regard to facilitating victims coming forward to deal with these issues.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Very often issues get a wave of attention in the public media and then tend to drift to the side in terms of consistency of focus and urgent intervention mechanisms that should have been put in place to enable their further investigation and also to facilitate other victims to come forward. We were shocked by the Maíria Cahill revelations because...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the allegations of sexual abuse and the use of kangaroo courts by the IRA with the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43802/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed with the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, concerns regarding sexual abusers being moved from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom by the IRA movement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43803/14]
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: To end that situation and to dilute the power of the banks, we brought in constructive legislation last week but the Government said "No way", that it was not going to accept it and kept its head in the sand in terms of the enormity of the issue. The Government then put forward the line that somehow it was the borrowers' fault and that those in arrears were not engaging with the banks. Two...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It was a very detached comment by the Minister for Finance in the context of the extraordinary anxiety and stress for many ordinary families, couples, women and so forth, who were brought before the courts to have their houses repossessed. The problem is growing at an alarming rate. The Minister said he would change the personal insolvency legislation: the service has only dealt with 199...