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Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach explain why the Attorney General did not go to the Minister for Justice and Equality in the four month period during which she would have been aware of both the specifics of the case and its importance? Why did she not go to the Taoiseach last week or the week before or the month before that because this was known within the system? That is now clear from the Minister's...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: To which question does the answer of "Yes" apply?

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Is that the response to the question about the Commissioner?

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: I know what questions I asked.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach ring the Attorney General?

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: To the Minister.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am going to ask a question. These are very serious issues.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: I have a lot of experience in the House. It beggars belief that there is no statement in the House - that the Minister for Justice and Equality has not come before the House to comment on the resignation of the Garda Commissioner following the statements of a succession of Ministers about the Commissioner's comments to the Committee on Public Accounts, and about the Minister’s...

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----and that no formal mechanism is provided for the Minister for Justice and Equality to come in to answer basic questions about why the Commissioner is resigning now. He left certain things in the air in his briefing with me on the most recent issue. The Taoiseach suggested it would do on Thursday, but the statements on Thursday are on the Garda inspectorate's report on the fixed charge...

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: There is a lot of cynical stuff going on here. The only way the Taoiseach can cut through that is by making this House relevant to the issues of the day.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Adams is correct. This was all fed to the media. That is fine. The Government does that all the time. We are becoming-----

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is fine. Surely the Taoiseach agrees that in any other Dáil – I have been here – the Minister would have come in here on the day? Will the Taoiseach make time available today?

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: About what?

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am talking about the Garda Commissioner’s resignation.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: I do listen.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: What is the Taoiseach saying?

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is semantics.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Every radio programme in the country is saying the Commissioner resigned.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister for Justice and Equality should come in here.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is being cynical. He has not responded to me.