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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: I have a brief supplementary.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of his recent meeting with Cardinal Brady; the issues that were discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3944/13]

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: SIPTU has rejected it.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is correct that there are a wide range of issues involved here, not least the manner in which the Minister has given himself power under the Personal Insolvency Act to create a new cadre of judges from the Civil Service, for example. A limited number of people need only apply, up to 2014, namely County Registrars. As one Senior Counsel today said, this is-----

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: -----an enormous change to the system of nominating and appointing judges.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: The judges are saying that communications have broken down between the Government and the Judiciary.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: The pension changes, in terms of the length of service for superior judges, is an issue on which there was no consultation. The three referendums that are coming forward all have implications for judicial independence.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: The proposal for an over-arching commission to adjudicate, not just on judicial appointments but on all judicial issues, particularly in the aftermath of the recent referendum, was too arbitrarily dismissed by the Minister for Justice and Equality and the Government.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach confirm that he will intervene and create a reasonable forum where these issues can be thrashed out? I welcome the Taoiseach's comment to the effect that he acknowledges the importance of consultation on very fundamental issues of this kind.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: It is the first comment we have had from the Government today that points in a constructive direction. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, tried earlier to reduce this to a populist argument to court popular support.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his indulgence.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: That was before this Government got hold of it.

Return to Writ: Meath East - Introduction of New Member (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: On behalf of my party and personally, I welcome Deputy Helen McEntee to the House. I again congratulate her on her success in the by-election. She is following a great tradition in the work laid down by her father before her. Deputy McEntee has proven herself and when she has asserted herself she will be a capable legislator in this House. I look forward to engaging with her, as do party...

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: I beg your indulgence, a Cheann Comhairle, to sympathise briefly with all the families of those who lost their lives at the Boston marathon and all those who were injured by the barbaric terrorist atrocity yesterday. We heard on the news this morning how an eight year old boy lost his life just after hugging his father who had successfully completed the marathon, and whose sister lost a...

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: He has a sense that he is right on all occasions. While we might grant him that on 99% of occasions, on this one he is wrong. He should step back and stop playing populist politics with the Judiciary. This is not just about pay and perks, as the Minister and other Ministers have attempted to characterise this particular outbreak between the Judiciary and the Government. Is it the...

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: Senior judges are not saying that. Mr. Justice Adrian Hardiman has made reasoned statements in the media today.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: I accept that, a Cheann Comhairle, but we are in unprecedented territory.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: I do not. I did not create this row.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: I did not create this row and I am making a constructive contribution so that we can resolve the issue.

Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)

Micheál Martin: The problem is that there is too much of a majority on the Government side and Government Members think they can do what they like with the fundamental institutions of the State. That is at the heart of the issue.