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Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: I think Mattie has spoken favourably of the contrast of civilised behaviour compared with your types of actions and behaviour. Very serious issues arise in terms of the budgetary position in health from what we can gather and glean. Apart from the action taken by the non-consultant hospital doctors, quite a number of cancellations for surgery have been made between now and the end of the...

Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: It may not be the right way to go.

Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: I asked whether there will be a Supplementary Estimate for the health area.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: It is not about the Seanad.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am not asking the Taoiseach to do so.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Yes. Is it true?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach must be joking.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: I do. It is a very serious issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: It is a very serious issue. He should.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach's people, as well as those of the Minister, are leaking like sieves.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Can the Taoiseach confirm it? This relates to a statement to the House.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: I would not doubt the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: My questions relate to the Economic Management Council. Many people are concerned that more advisers than members of Government attend and speak at this very powerful council. Fundamental questions must be asked in terms of the constitutionality of the council. Some Ministers, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Coveney and the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: A Cabinet decision was taken-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: This is a serious matter and I am keen to proceed without interruption, please. A formal Cabinet decision was taken to burn bondholders by €6 billion. Subsequently, the European Central Bank got wind of this and Mr. Trichet, the then Governor, was in touch with the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan. A tense situation unfolded and the Economic Management Council was convened and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Economic Management Council last met. [39091/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: What we need is an inquiry into the local authorities. That is where the real story lies.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should not be playing politics with something that is fundamentally wrong in terms of how a local authority regulated. There were regulations in place.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach plays politics too often.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Patrick Honohan, has confirmed that 74,000 of the 98,000 mortgage holders in arrears of more than 90 days at the end of June were not yet in an arrangement. Targets have been missed all over the place. More worrying, of the 35,000 proposed resolutions offered by banks to the end of June, 62% referred to surrender or repossession of property. The...