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Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The entire purpose of the exchange seems to be that, no matter what else happens, the complaint must not get to the media. I have heard from other whistleblowers. The strategy seems to be to get some of this stuff into the courts, then to get mediation and then to reach a confidential agreement to settle matters. Much of this stuff never comes out. We have had fine-sounding words and...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The entire machinery of the State and even some of the media pointed their guns in the direction of the victim and everything got messed up. The same is happening in this instance. The whistleblowers feel that there is no one out there. They feel that the entire system is against them, from the Minister to the Department. The quality and import of what they were saying were undermined....

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----whatever else happens, this must not get into the media because it will make a lot of people in high positions very angry. That would not be good for the whistleblower.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The situation in our health service is a cause of grave concern with the hospitals in disarray and waiting lists increasing to an extraordinary degree, in particular in the children's hospitals where they are up to three to four years. The primary care system is at a very poor level. Morale is shockingly low in general practice and it has been said we will not be able recruit people for...

Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Will it be March or April?

Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: A debate, maybe.

Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: What about the charges, or the amount people will have to pay?

Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Why is that?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: When?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is only three months away, 16 weeks.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: March or April?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach still satisfied with regard to the constitutional status of the economic management committee vis-à-vis its role within the Cabinet? He stated that the committee has met on ten occasions. The Ministers for Social Protection and Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputies Burton and Coveney, and others have on occasion articulated their concerns at being excluded from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: In terms of the economic management committee making decisions, Ministers subsequently state that they know nothing about those decisions or that they do not agree with them. What happened in respect of Irish Water is the classic illustration of this.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: I was only born in 1960 so I do not really know what went on in the 1960s.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Adams certainly knows about the security committee.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: Has the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, reconciled herself with all of this?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if the Economic Management Council has met since October. [2183/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when is the next meeting of the Economic Management Council. [2218/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: That was the Taoiseach's Senators.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (11 Feb 2014)

Micheál Martin: The fundamental issue when it comes to referenda is that Taoiseach essentially tells us what the Government has decided in terms of what issues it will put before the people. The Oireachtas was presented with a fait accompli in respect of the last couple of referenda. The root of the problem, in terms of how referenda are held here, is that regardless of what anybody else wants or what the...