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Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: In getting the clarity, I have discovered something else.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is missing the point.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: For 12 months people held the belief that the Ombudsman for Children could raise these issues, but now it has transpired that -----

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: In terms of the legislation, getting it wrong makes the consequence serious in that the Ombudsman for Children could not do what she wanted to do or that everybody wanted to giver her the power to do, the least the House deserved in a situation like that is a statement from the Minister responsible.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Is there any chance we could get the legal advice? I think we should.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am going to oppose it now.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach publish the legal advice on it?

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am not against its principle. The Taoiseach is missing my point.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: No, let us be clear, the Taoiseach and the Minister knew about six or nine months ago that something was wrong here, but they never advised the Dáil of that. They should have, and that is the point.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: In regard to the commitments made in the programme for Government on eliminating poverty traps, will the Taoiseach indicate when we can expect the legislation dealing with the proposal to tightly regulate moneylenders and debt collectors to be brought before the House? Also, in the programme for Government the Taoiseach said that the Government would divert staff from elsewhere in the public...

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Which one? Will the Taoiseach deal with the three commitments I raised?

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The issue of the upward rent review was a promise Fine Gael made in the election which was not delivered.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Not on the same level as the Taoiseach. I did not do a Roscommon on it.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: We have done that.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: This is not about putting down a question. There is a commitment in the programme for Government -----

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Quinn is not the Chair and should not try to be the Chair. I asked a specific question. I am entitled under Standing Orders to ask on the Order of Business about the implementation of a commitment in the programme for Government. There is a commitment in the programme for Government to put household benefits out to tender. Is that going to happen or not? I am trying to get an...

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is legislation. I am also entitled to ask about the programme for Government. What is the answer?

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am talking about the programme for Government commitment. It states the household benefits package will be put out to tender so that the Exchequer benefits from reduced prices. I am entitled to an answer on that. Under Standing Orders and precedent I am entitled to ask about that. Will it be put out to tender?

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Is it going to be put to tender or not? The Taoiseach never answers questions.

Order of Business (1 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: On precedent, any commitment in the programme for Government can be raised on the Order of Business. That has been the case in the Chair's time and anybody else's. That does not have to be written.