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Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: This is more deception from the Tánaiste. He is deceiving people with meaningless soundbites.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: What about cuts to VEC funding?

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: As chairman Keaveney tweeted last night, the die has been cast. Labour and Fine Gael Deputies have voted, one and all, for some of the most regressive cuts to child benefit, respite grants and child clothing allowances, and an increase in tax for low paid workers. This is despite the fact the Labour Party made extraordinary commitments before the last general election. It has now broken...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: They then go and take €10 per month in child benefit off the first and second child and €18 off the third and fourth child. When pressed on breaking those promises, the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, said the other night: "Isn’t this the kind of thing you tend to do during an election campaign?" - in other words, you tend to make these kinds of promises. This basically means...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste might not like those words coming from me. To be fair, Senator John Whelan has perhaps put it far more succinctly, when he said he was one of the Labour candidates who put up and delivered those leaflets. He said: "We have broken that promise on child benefit, we misled the public and I have been made a liar of by the Budget cuts to child benefit."

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: That is what Senator John Whelan wrote in yesterday's The Star newspaper. He continued: "The betrayal of the public's trust just adds salt to wound." He then said in a message to, I think, every Deputy in the House, particularly to his own Deputies: "We know in our hearts and souls it is wrong, morally wrong, inequitable and unfair as these budgetary measures penalise ... low-income...

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: I want to ask the Tánaiste one very basic question. No one forced him to make those promises and no has forced him to break them. Why is the Fine Gael promise not to increase taxes on people earning over €100,000 more important than the Labour Party promise not to cut child benefit?

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste did make commitments. We all remember, "It is Labour's way or Frankfurt's way".

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: We all remember that deception. The Tánaiste voted against every measure to correct the public finances in 2009 and 2010. He spoke on budgets from this side of the House-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----saying the Government was going to rob child benefit from people's pockets.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: He was Mr. Angry. Does he not remember Mr. Angry over there? He has now done a U-turn on every single thing he protested about.

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The point is he made promises he had no intention of keeping. That is why one of Labour's former Ministers, Deputy Shortall, has described its performance in government as "embarrassing".

Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: That is why Senator Whelan said what he said. He said the Tánaiste had made a liar out of him, and he wrote it in yesterday's The Star newspaper. I asked the Tánaiste a very basic question which he skirted around. I repeat: why was the Fine Gael promise not to increase taxes on people earning more than €100,000 more important than the promises made by the Labour Party? The...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Fisheries Policy Negotiations (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date on fishery discussions at EU level for 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55981/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Suckler Welfare Scheme Eligibility (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers broken down by county who will be affected by Budget 2013 changes to the suckler cow welfare scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55966/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (13 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made in relation to criminal investigations arising from the Moriarty Tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56143/12]

Topical Issue Debate: Report on Murder of Pat Finucane (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply. The report is shocking and reveals why the British Government did not want a public inquiry. The scale and depth of collusion between the RUC, the British army and the UDA and other loyalist forces are such that a public inquiry would probably reveal much more about the wider systemic nature of the collusion. In 1991 Mr. Ken Barrett, the person...

Topical Issue Debate: Report on Murder of Pat Finucane (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Today's release of the de Silva report and the British Prime Minister's statement on the shocking level of State collusion in the brutal murder of Pat Finucane opens up a dark chapter in our country's history. The report, however, does not meet the fair, objective criteria of a full investigation into the murder. The Finucane family has completely rejected the report as a whitewash and has...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: This week the European Council is meeting at a time when the economic situation in Europe is taking a significant turn for the worse. The growth projections for all major economies and the eurozone as a whole have just been cut. Within the eurozone unemployment has increased by over 170,000 since leaders last met and now reached the unprecedented figure of 18.7 million people out of work....

Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: On the Order of Business-----