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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Did the Government ask the ECB, yes or no?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: I just want to ask the question again.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Yes. I have 11-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: I have not spoken at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: I have tabled 11 questions. My interventions-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: I have read them. I know what they are.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: They actually do. The Taoiseach has met every European leader, including President Barroso. To be fair, I have been brief. I have only contributed twice, and for short periods.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach filibusters on Question Time time and again.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Once the Taoiseach gets to his feet, it is 15 or 20 minutes per answer. This is not a one-way street. When we ask questions, we do not get answers to them.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: I asked a brief question on whether the Government had formally asked for the ECB's profits on Irish bonds to be returned to Ireland. It is a "Yes" or "No" answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is not what the Taoiseach stated three weeks ago.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: No answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: I asked earlier in respect of the ECB and the profits it is making on Irish holdings of Irish bonds. The Taoiseach read from a lengthy document and I ask him to forward the document to me.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach send a copy to us?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is very helpful.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer the question I asked, which was whether he had formally asked for ECB profits on Irish bonds to be returned to Ireland. If a deal is done for Greece, the same should apply to Portugal, Ireland and other countries in programmes. That has been the principle since the outset of the crisis. What is provided for in one country is provided for in another, as we had...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach took the embassy away from the Vatican so that is no longer an option.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: As befits the Scandinavians.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: High repute.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (5 Mar 2013)

Micheál Martin: No. I am referring to quantifying the impact of a British exit on the Irish economy. Have we commissioned any study on what the actual impact would be on the Irish economy?