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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is very clear from the Taoiseach's answers that the sub-committee on European affairs was not directly involved in the decision not to seek a conditional credit line. I repeat what I said earlier, that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, did say to the Irish Independent in September that he was seeking a €10 billion credit line. This was not general talk about what...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I beg your pardon.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: It was not his decision. It was the Government's decision.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: He is on the EMC.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I did not suggest that we had.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU affairs met last. [39244/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The role of the Cabinet committee on EU affairs is to oversee our preparations for Council meetings and ongoing negotiations with European Union partners. Given what the Taoiseach said last week about the decision on conditional funding emerging from what were called intensive discussions with EU institutions and governments, we must presume the Cabinet committee was involved. The...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, did promise last week that he would publish all documentation that informed the Government's decision not to apply for a credit line. He said he would publish that documentation and that he would have no difficulty in doing so. Will the Taoiseach confirm that it will be published?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is a very basic question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: We are very restricted in what we can ask.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: We cannot, because the Taoiseach-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am not talking about that.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: But they are.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: Were the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health aware of the allowances in the health and disability agencies? Were the allowances brought to the attention of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, and what was done about them? What does the Government intend to do about them now?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said the same rules must apply; they do not apply. There seems to have been a vow of silence on the issue in the lead-up to the Haddington Road agreement. I recall the major attack on allowances by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, which went on for six to nine months without any mention of these super allowances for people at the top. The...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: There was knowledge that cuts being effected elsewhere were not being effected here and the situation was left to drift. The picture is well known and we do not have to wait for a fuller picture. Can the Taoiseach indicate the policy and what actions the Government will take with these agencies to make sure they fall in line with everyone else in the public service?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: Reports in The Irish Times today make the disturbing revelation that more than one quarter of the country's health and disability agencies are in breach of public pay policy. There are related stories in the Irish Independent and other media. Given that it is only a few months since the Haddington Road agreement, it beggars belief the allowances have been sustained and, more importantly,...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Global Economic Forum (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the meetings he held in or around the Global Economic Forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41828/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (19 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends to reopen the Irish embassy in the Vatican; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48811/13]