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Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: I just want to-----

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: This is outrageous. I am not responsible for what is happening this morning. The Government is driving all of this. What I am saying is that in the normal course amendments must be tabled before the Second Stage debate begins

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: We were informed that we had to submit amendments by Tuesday morning last.

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: That is absolutely untrue.

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle, this is a disgrace.

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: This House is being treated with contempt.

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: We are not getting an opportunity to debate what is going on here today.

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: We were promised a democratic revolution. Instead we have a sitting next Monday to deal with business that nobody on this side of the House requested.

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is the usual ploy from this Government.

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. In the strongest possible terms I oppose the manner in which the Government proposes to treat the Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill by ramming it through the Dáil and the Seanad in the space of one week. This is a 70 page Bill with 159 sections containing significant detail and giving extensive powers to Revenue to enter homes. It introduces a tax that will hit the...

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----oppose and fulfil the commitments given while in opposition?

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: There seems to be a genuine drive by the Government to deny debate and discussion in the House on these issues. This morning I listened to the Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, talk about that small sliver in the Labour Party that preferred opposition and advocacy to being in government.

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: It suggested to me the democratic centralist tendencies, so beloved of The Workers' Party, are alive and well and in control.

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Minister and his ilk within the Labour Party-----

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----have succeeded in driving out the last vestiges of old decent Labour into the cold.

Order of Business (14 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is a sad scene to behold that the Trotsky of Tallaght has become the mudguard of Fine Gael in the Government.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: What about next week?

Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: It will allow us to sit tomorrow. It is in accordance with Standing Orders.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: No. The House is being treated in an appalling manner. There is no doubt what the dominant question of the week is. It should be the Social Welfare Bill. In a constructive manner, I suggest the Credit Union Bill and the Equal Status (Amendment) Bill be put back to next week. Having Question Time this evening at 8.45 p.m. is farcical.

Order of Business (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: No. There was many a time when the Chief Whip was given extra hours for debates when he was in opposition.