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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Overseas Visits (18 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: 53. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his bilateral meeting with the President and Prime Minister of Lithuania; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28961/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Overseas Visits (18 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: 54. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the bilateral meetings that he attended in Finland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28962/13]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Freedom of Information Requests (18 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: 56. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Freedom of Information requests his Department has received since January; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29168/13]

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann), 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: There is no example in its history to compare with the recent habit of many Government Deputies systematically heckling Opposition speakers to protect Ministers who have legitimate questions to answer. None of this is to say the Seanad should remain as it is. The vocational panel system is anachronistic. It is also the case that it is hard to justify giving an extra opportunity to vote...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann), 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: He had earlier abolished the Free State Senate because it sought to prevent the implementation of key republican principles in the Constitution, but he restored it in the 1937 document. Eamon de Valera actively sought out different opinions and the record shows how he was respectful of other opinions. He even managed to handle with good grace the claim of James Dillon that he was...

An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann), 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: The amendment proposed to the House is the most extensive produced by any Government in the 76 years since Bunreacht na hÉireann was adopted by the people. It seeks to amend more than 40 provisions of the Constitution but has been prepared without consultation. No public or private body, let alone any elected representative outside the Government, has been asked for an input. No...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Working Group (13 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times that the new judicial forum working group has met since March 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28289/13]

Order of Business (12 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: There was a commitment in the programme for Government to introduce child care legislation and to prioritise child care services and the inspection of such services. I want the Taoiseach to indicate to me when the Children First legislation will be published, given that the HSE has confirmed that funding for childminding officers is no longer in place in most areas. This is a service that...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (12 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: Táimid bailithe anseo chun comhbhrón a dhéanamh le clann P.J. Morley agus, mar aon le sin, léiriú do chách an méad meas a bhí againn go léir air agus an méid oibre a dhein sé ar son muintir na tíre, go háirithe ar son mhuintir Mhaigh Eo. Nuair a fuair P.J. bás i mhí Deireadh Fómhair seo chaite, bhí sé...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: We are not talking about senior bankers.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: We are not talking about the Labour Court. We are talking about ordinary workers. Will the Taoiseach use plain language and stop this camouflaging?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: It is the Taoiseach's decision.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: It is not a dispute.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: Sorry, it is not a dispute. The Taoiseach said to take 6% off and they are doing it through pensions. The Taoiseach should tell the truth.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Byrne is a great representative of the working classes.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Minister for Finance, following publication of the Mercer report on bankers' pay and so on, requested the banks to reduce the pay of bank workers by between 6% and 10%. The impression given by the Taoiseach and others at the time was that this was designed for the fat cats in the banks, the people earning hundreds of thousands of euro. The executives of Permanent TSB responded to the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Government has the submission from the banks since the end of April. It is extraordinary and incredible that the Taoiseach says he does not have a clue about this issue and has no detailed knowledge of it, despite the fact that he protested loudly here that the Mercer report would be the be all and end all to get at the fat cats in the banks - the big executives with the big salaries....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (12 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: 36. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the new initiatives taken by him to tackle the problems in areas of high deprivation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28050/13]

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am not talking about heads of Bills; I am talking about the guillotining that the Taoiseach has been doing since he came into office. Stop the nonsense and the blather.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)

Micheál Martin: We have had two and a half years of him going on about this.