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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: He stated that he had read the minutes of Cabinet meetings and saw nothing-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----in those minutes that suggested any Dáil reform.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Disgraceful.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State read the minutes, obviously.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: No, we did an awful lot more than that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Standards in Public Office Commission, SIPO.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Not true. I did not say that at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Is the Minister of State going to revert to the minutes?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: This Government controls the committees. Bar two, every one of them is chaired by Government Members.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: The property tax was subject to it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am not in the Chair.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Has he?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Yes. He was the then Chief Whip.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Is the Minister of State claiming that Seamus Brennan did nothing?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: Has the 1997-2001 period been revisited?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State could be excused for that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is not true.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State said at the beginning of his reply to my question that he read the minutes of previous Cabinet meetings and that he saw no evidence of any reform initiatives. Would he accept that he would have been in breach of Cabinet confidentiality if he read the minutes of Cabinet meetings of previous Cabinets? I am very surprised to hear him say that because-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: He said the minutes.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)

Micheál Martin: As a Government Minister, I never had, nor did I seek, nor was I ever informed that I would have, access to either the agendas or the minutes of Governments that went before me or before the Governments in which I served. I found it extraordinary that the Minister of State made that assertion that he read previous Cabinet minutes. That is what he said. He said he had read the minutes of...