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Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste is becoming more like the Taoiseach every day as he manages to avoid answering questions.

Order of Business (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: I must remark on this week's lack of business. I have asked the Taoiseach on a number of occasions if he could schedule an urgent debate on the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council report, which is almost four weeks old. It goes to the heart of some of the significant economic challenges we face and it voices significant concerns. I would have thought we could have had the debate yesterday or...

Order of Business (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach undertook that there would be a debate specifically on the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council report, not the Bill. There are concerns in that report and issues that need airing and articulation. The goalposts are changing.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: The former Minister of State, Deputy Shortall does not think it is a priority.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: That was a previous Government's policy.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: There was in terms of adding certain centres. The Tánaiste is being disingenuous.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: I find that an extraordinary response. Do not tell us we must depend on freedom of information; I am asking the Tánaiste, as deputy leader of the Government, to see to it that all the documentation will be published in the next couple of days. There is no reason it should not be. I do not want Secretaries General stating that correspondence with Ministers is confidential. On this...

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: We should not wait for two or three months for this storm to abate, with documentation then fed out with some of it redacted, as all previous experiences with freedom of information requests to the Government have shown.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: I want the documentation published. Nobody stated that a Minister was involved in a selection of a site except the Minister for Education and Skills.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: We are talking about the adding on of centres. The mention of a stimulus package is a feeble response, as the former Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, was anxious that those most in need would get the allocation, and hence the list. Dundalk was 21st on the list and Swords was 144th on it. Does the Tánaiste stand over that? There could have been another 15 on Deputy Shortall's list...

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: Sorry, could the Tánaiste answer the question?

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: People are fed up with this nonsense.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: He should stop ducking and diving.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: Answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: Are we to blame for the former Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, resigning on the Tánaiste's watch-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----and without his support? Am I to blame for that? Keep repeating the mantra.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Government is reforming nothing.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: Dundalk was 21st and Swords was 144th in that list and the Tánaiste is standing over it.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: I want the real answer.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: Will the Tánaiste provide the documentation?