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Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: It defies any logic and goes against any concept of ability to pay. If somebody paid €25,000 or €30,000 in stamp duty in the past three, four or five years, they believe they have paid their property tax.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: So does the Commission on Taxation, which advised they should be exempt for seven years from any property tax that was brought in.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: More than €5 billion has been paid in stamp duty. How are we expecting unemployed people to pay this? The higher the value of some houses, the higher the mortgages. The issue is that, because of their financial circumstances, people are simply not in a position to pay.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to improve the pay and conditions of members of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54794/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ministerial Meetings (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has met representatives from the drinks industry recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50877/12]

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Get off the stage.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Was it really?

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Government issued its materials after the writ was moved.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: A disgraceful performance.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: He changes the story all the time.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should acknowledge that he was wrong.

Tributes to Staff Member (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: On behalf of my party, I thank Barry for his unfailing courtesy. I ask him to avoid watching "Oireachtas Report" every evening.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Today saw the publication of the Chief Justice's judgment on the competence of the Government in its handling of the children's referendum, particularly with regard to the booklet, website and advertisement published by the Government. The Chief Justice said that all three failed the test of being fair, equal and impartial. They failed to be neutral, failed to hold the scales equally...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: I know that, but this is a serious issue-----

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----that goes to the very heart of our Constitution. It is the question of who decides how to change or amend the Constitution. It is a serious judgment, and I ask the Taoiseach, in line with commitments in the programme for Government, to provide special time, early in the new Dáil session, for a full debate on this judgment. I ask that the Minister concerned come before the House...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----and incompetent approach was adopted by the Government, in which it broke every rule in the book in terms of the material it published.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: We have been fobbed off before. When the initial judgment came out we had no debate. In the Seanad they had a special notice question immediately on the publication of the first judgment. There has been no meaningful discussion in the aftermath of the referendum about what was a serious breach by the Government-----

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----regarding the holding of the referendum and the material it published.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: There is nothing done through the Whips.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: It does not happen. The Chief Whip-----