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Order of Business (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach provide an update? Will it be operable before the new year?

Order of Business (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Will the regulations be in operation?

Order of Business (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: That sounds like it will be the new year.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: He decided for some reason - and I do not know why - to switch this on the eve of a Cabinet meeting after the Taoiseach had signed off with the Tánaiste on 33, not including these two.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: No one knew up to the Monday evening or indeed Tuesday morning. The Labour Ministers clearly did not know either, but for some reason they allowed their Minister of State to take the fall and resign.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: There is something wrong here. At the very minimum it is wrong for a Minister to interfere in moving a project that is significant for private sector stakeholders from one model to another which confers a better benefit ultimately.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: A Labour Party Minister of State resigned over this.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: He did not tell us the truth. He told a pack, a tissue of them.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: And no propriety.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The former Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, saw this and she raised the alarm. All these documents show that she was raising alarms about this the whole way along the line.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is not glad I got it because he would not give it.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach would not give the information. With all his talk about transparency and all his talk about "Paddy wants to know", he would not give me the information.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is not glad. It is no thanks to him that I got the information.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday I received another large bundle of freedom of information documents on the selection of primary care centres and the addition of centres at Swords and Balbriggan. One might be suspicious on the eve of budget day to get such a large selection of documents because it is a classic way to bury material that the Government might not want people to see but, on a quick read through the...

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: That is not the point.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: No. Read that one, that is the key one.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Not that one.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am not.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: No. You keep giving a different answer.

Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach keeps on answering questions he was never asked. That is his favourite tactic in this House. I refer to what is in black and white. I am not making this up. The Government made this decision in July and it is now December when I get this information. That is because the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste nor the Minister would not tell the truth about it in this House.