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Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is the Order Paper that is making a joke out of it.

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, it is the Order Paper that is making a joke of this. He should be in here today.

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: But he should be in here.

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is the greatest bar. A special notice question was tabled yesterday-----

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: ----- and it was not accepted.

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: I have been in this House for a long time-----

Order of Business (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: ----- and on matters of this gravity, Ministers always have come in.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: No one mentioned that.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister should get the transcript.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Mario Rosenstock will have a field day.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: We will now get the point of view of a Government backbencher.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: With respect, will the Minister stop trying to undermine people who are bringing very important matters of concern into the public domain? She should stop doing that. She has done too much of it. The Minister, Deputy Shatter, undermined a good man in the case of the whistleblower. The documentation here contains some of the material I gave to the Taoiseach yesterday concerning the cases....

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----and there is no doubt that he read and studied them. The confidential recipient says, "I know he did". He read them and he knew their gravity. What happened? Nothing happened.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: All of this ran into the sand. These are very serious issues. The bottom line is that there simply must be a commission of inquiry into these matters of grave public concern. The Minister did not answer the questions I asked her. Does she not think the Minister should come here today and address the House on the gravity of the assertions and allegations that have been made? The House is...

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is a different issue.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: We did not raise that issue this morning.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister is answering on an issue about which she was not asked.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The only reason the Minister is answering on that matter is to avoid answering the question she was asked.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Get to the point.

Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister is trivialising it.