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Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: I think it is very good. It is an excellent report.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is about the institutionalisation problem in this country.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: We know all this. Nobody is asking about Christy Lynch.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: Did anything happen on the recommendations? That is what we need to know.

Leaders' Questions (10 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: The House will be united today in anger, shock and horror at the revelations in "Prime Time: Inside Bungalow Three" last evening. I commend RTE and "Prime Time" for an excellent example of public service broadcasting at its best. The revelations were shocking and they represented violations of human rights of senior citizens with intellectual disabilities. These citizens, Ivy McGinty, Mary...

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is a bit late now.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: No, it is not. Deputy Buttimer got stitched up by his own side.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: My party is not agreeing to the late sitting. It is appalling and farcical what is going on. I genuinely say that. There is no need for this. We are debating the order of today's business at 7.50 p.m.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is farcical.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It would not happen in any organisation.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is not the reason.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is not the reason. We could have had the motion of confidence and the Private Members' motion, and that would be that. There is no need for this.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is just an awful ramshackle, ham-fisted-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is a ham-fisted, ridiculous and farcical way of ordering the business of this House. I would ask the Taoiseach to postpone No. 31, for example, which is to be debated for just one hour before adjourning, which could potentially bring us through to 1.30 a.m. or 1.45 a.m.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: 2 o'clock? Have we lost our marbles in this House completely?

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: Has the Taoiseach not learned anything from the last occasion when we-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: One second, a Cheann Comhairle; this is important - when we went beyond midnight-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----and how that disgraced the House and the public perception of the House? The Taoiseach is now going to say, as people prepare to march, that we will bury the water issue to the middle of the night. We are talking about trying to attract people, particularly women, into politics, and there are lifestyle issues. There is no basis whatsoever for meeting at 11 o'clock tonight.

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: All Deputies, when we meet in corridors, will ask each other-----

Order of Business (9 Dec 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----what we are doing here.