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Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The programme for Government included a commitment "to tackle the huge overuse of guillotines to ram through non-emergency legislation". For the past year and, again last evening, the Taoiseach decided to use the guillotine to ram through non-emergency legislation. The latest instalment was the property tax (amendment) Bill. The upshot of that was no discussion took place on amendments and...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Members wanted to discuss amendments last night, for example, relating to exemptions for those in mortgage arrears or negative equity, social welfare recipients, people on low incomes and those who paid stamp duty between 2000 and 2012 from the impact of the property tax. Yesterday, there was a big row about this. It is a serious issue for the entire Dáil. Members do not want to...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: That has been going on for the past year and a half. The Taoiseach promised a democratic revolution.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The programme for Government has a commitment to tackle the huge overuse of guillotines to ram through non-emergency legislation. A total of 67 amendments were tabled to last night's Bill and not one of them was discussed.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: In terms of how the House was ordered, the reason for this, according to the Taoiseach yesterday, was that the Revenue Commissioners will issue letters relating to the property tax next Monday. That suggests that the Parliament is some way down on the lower rung of the ladder in terms of priority in that the administration of something is more important than the policy context and before the...

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is not good enough and I say this as a Member of the Dáil as well as a leader of a political party in the Dáil.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: When will the Taoiseach implement that aspect of the programme of Government to which he signed up?

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: I never used the guillotine as a Minister.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Is that not fair?

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: That was Second Stage.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Government does not talk to anybody. It just rams everything through.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am listening too much to nothing two years on.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: But we do not even get a chance to discuss legislation.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is all blather out of the Taoiseach. He is never here five days a week, obviously.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Not all the time, just a reasonable amount.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Government had three days two weeks ago on a motion of self-congratulation but only two hours last night on an issue that affects everybody in this country.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Government is organising the House to suit itself and the Taoiseach should not give any pretence about that because he does not believe in reform.

Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is the Taoiseach's prerogative. That is what the Taoiseach is at, misleading people on a continuous basis.

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Tá mé ag díriú ar na gardaí ar maidin. Is ceart agus is cóir é sin. Mar is léir do gach éinne - buailim le gardaí gach lá - agus mar a dúirt mé cheana, ní raibh spiorad na ngardaí riamh chomh íseal is atá sé anois. Níl aon dul as - tá an spiorad laistigh den fhórsa go dona ar fad faoi...

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Níl ceardchumann i gceist anseo. Is ceist speisialta í.