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- Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----during which the Attorney did not, in any shape or form, brief the Minister for Justice and Equality. The Taoiseach confirmed that he rang the Attorney General on Sunday.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Attorney General was not of a mind last Sunday, by the way, to raise the issue. If we had had questions with the Minister, we could have got an answer to that question.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Exactly. That is the point. It was not on that.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is not why the Taoiseach rang the Attorney General and she was not going to ring him either. I got a different impression from the briefing yesterday.
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: We need more time on this issue. That is the point. I ask the Government to provide more time for questions on that specific issue. The Taoiseach mentioned to myself and Deputy Adams yesterday that a senior counsel was approached about this, I think, on Monday. Is there a written report from that senior counsel?
- Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: If so, could that be made available to us?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: No one asked the Taoiseach that.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: That was known for months.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I asked him two months ago.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: There is no commission of investigation yet.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not tell us the full story yesterday - that is the point. He did not tell me about any senior civil servant going out to the Commissioner. That revelation this morning, and its confirmation by the Taoiseach, tells me one thing; he said it to inform and convey to him the gravity of how the Taoiseach felt about the issues that were emerging. He essentially sacked him. That...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Calling a spade a spade, that is what that means. The context is appalling. Does the Taoiseach know why? Surely his official would have been told by the Commissioner that he wrote about these issues two weeks ago to the Minister for Justice and Equality, that the Attorney General knew about them for four months and that officials in the Department of Justice and Equality knew about it....
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----everybody was asking the Commissioner to withdraw his remarks and the Minister, Deputy Shatter, to withdraw his remarks.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The import of sending the civil servant out was clear. The next thing was that we will not discuss anything to do with whistleblowers or penalty points but we will discuss something else, something new, a specific case, important as it is, but it was not new at all. The Attorney General knew it and it is important that the Taoiseach confirms that he rang the Attorney General. The Attorney...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Why did the Attorney General not talk to the Minister for Justice and Equality and ask him questions?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: What did the Attorney General not talk to the Minister for Justice and Equality about this?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not tell me about that.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Commissioner had written to the Minister.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: No, I asked the Taoiseach a question: Why did the Attorney General not talk to the Minister for Justice and Equality? Can he give me an answer to that question?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: All last week Minister after Minister, including the Tánaiste, in the public domain asked the Minister for Justice and Equality to withdraw remarks he had made about the whistleblowers in the penalty points saga and to come into the Dáil to do so. There was a sense coming up to yesterday's Cabinet meeting that the Minister was under extreme pressure from his colleagues within the...