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Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: This is the programme for Government.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: I have read it.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is an Order of Business question. It is central to the legislative programme.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: There are another 27 minutes to go on the Order of Business, with the greatest of respect, so there is plenty of time.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: This is a very serious matter because the health service is crumbling. Where stands all of this, two and a half to three pages of legislative commitments made by the Government? It is a fairy tale. It was an untruth peddled to the people before the last general election and has been peddled for the past three and a half years.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: This letter illustrates that.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is done in the nicest way possible from the Government’s perspective, whoever put it together. The Taoiseach should please not tell us he is going to do it all in the next five years, or the five years after that because that is the new trick. Whatever the Government could not do in this four years it says it will do in the next five years. It was a con job. The Taoiseach...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: When was that announced?

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is not true.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: I asked about the unemployed.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: When I asked the Taoiseach a number of questions yesterday about Irish Water, following Deputy Fergus O'Dowd's comments that it has been an unmitigated disaster, an abject failure and much more, the Taoiseach responded that, in his view, Deputy O'Dowd was simply saying it had teething problems. That response illustrated how out of touch the Taoiseach is with the situation on the ground and...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is not true.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is typical of the Taoiseach that he never answers the questions he is asked in this House but instead makes false assertions and makes it up as he goes along. He is incorrect on a specific point. There never was a proposal for a €400 charge in any document produced by my party.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: The central point I am trying to make, and which the Taoiseach deliberately refuses to deal with, was set out clearly by the previous Government in the EU-IMF agreement and the national recovery plan, namely, that water charges would be introduced on the basis of "ensuring that lower-income groups remain supported". The Taoiseach has not done that in the regime his Government is introducing....

Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Government has not. The new water charges must be paid through a bank account. Did the Taoiseach know that?

Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: The post office is excluded.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: No, they have no choice.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Fiscal Advisory Council report is irrelevant.

Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: On health legislation, I asked the Taoiseach a detailed set of questions on a raft of legislation on the Order of Business some weeks ago that was to underpin the introduction of universal health insurance. I referenced the legislative basis for universal health insurance, when public hospitals would be given autonomy from the HSE, the hospital insurance fund, the patient safety authority...

Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is clear that we will not get that opportunity now. There has been no contact to suggest that we will; our Whip has been told that it will be after the budget. Again, that shows the undermining of Parliament and the fact that it is a peripheral body to what is happening in terms of policy formulation. Will the Taoiseach elaborate as to when we will have a debate on the fiscal council's...