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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: This place is becoming increasingly less functional as a place of accountability.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Ceann Comhairle is intervening a bit too much. I am asking a basic question.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Ceann Comhairle takes out the right questions. How many questions are being disallowed? Numerous questions are disallowed continually.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: Of course. Standing Orders seem to be framed by this Government with a view to suppressing any meaningful articulation of viewpoints.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: No. They were voted through last week again.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: Yes, they were.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: I will do that and will be very effective. By the way, Standing Orders did affect questions last week very substantially, as the Ceann Comhairle knows. Deputies are already complaining about the limitation on time now. It is all designed to give the Government pre-eminence in the Chamber and to reduce accountability. That is the key point. I am referring to social policy. The committee...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: What about the poverty impact assessment of the budget?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: How many questions is the Taoiseach taking together?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach taking Questions Nos. 1 to 11?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach answering just Question No. 1?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is fine.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is not true. We are talking about six out of every ten people who did not do it that way. That is being dishonest.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is six out of every ten people.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: It is more than a reminder. It is telling them that if they pay by credit card, they will pay this year. Be honest about it.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: It is terribly dishonest.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: Tell the Tánaiste that.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: It is.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste and the committee Chairman decided that she should come. It is a smokescreen.

Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: Was the Taoiseach aware or not-----