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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach made a point about Ministers following through on full programmes in Europe. These are meaningless statements.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: We had the highest attendance record of all. Do not start with that untruth again.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach claimed that I told him he should spend his time going around Europe and all over the place, but in leader to leader terms he is not moving at all. Storm clouds gathered over the June deal during the summer and people are trying to erect obstacles. Just as the Taoiseach does, we want the best deal for the country. Anyone reading any analysis of what is occurring will know...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: We know what happened. They had to clean up the mess afterwards. The meeting became about a mobile telephone and the Taoiseach texting. That is all that emerged from the meeting. The people behind the Taoiseach's operation in Government Buildings should stop spinning every half meeting as a substantive meeting.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: At the outset of the term of office of this Government the Taoiseach stated that he would undertake a substantive diplomatic initiative, yet he has not done so. The challenge in trying to push home a deal that was apparently agreed in June is to meet the Prime Ministers of the countries in question, keep them on side and persuade them of Europe's need for the separation of banking and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am aware of that. It was the Taoiseach's people who briefed, not the Holy Father's.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: The reply to this batch of questions shows up the Taoiseach's reluctance to engage in any substantive way with EU matters or to embark on a substantive diplomatic initiative. From the replies to questions on the meeting with Prime Minister Cameron, we do not get a sense of any detailed face-to-face discussions on the European Union, for example. Instead, we are hearing accounts of small...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Taoiseach the matters he raised during recent contacts with Prime Minister Cameron. [40257/12]

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: Nothing happens.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: As for the added primary care centres, the Minister, Deputy Reilly, has changed his story repeatedly. He misled the Dáil last week by claiming that Balbriggan and Swords lost out and were swept from high priority to low priority. There was no prioritisation system in 2007, as the former Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, has confirmed and as have others close to the issue.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: Originally, the Minister, Deputy Reilly, stated that he consulted ministerial colleagues and officials, but no ministerial colleague can be found to confirm that he or she was consulted. Several Ministers, namely, Deputies Varadkar, Burton, Quinn and Creighton, have stated they are not familiar with the details.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: Can the Taoiseach spell out the criteria? Can he confirm that he actually approved of the addition by the Minister, Deputy Reilly, of those 15 centres and of the basis on which he did it? Moreover, I presume the Taoiseach will facilitate the Minister's appearance before the House today to make a statement and to answer questions in this regard given that he is doing so with the Fine Gael...

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer any of the questions I asked. I do not buy his answer in respect of the statutory order. However, I asked him specifically whether he approved of the adding of the 15 centres. This pertains to public private partnerships, which, as I noted last week, have a strong commercial dimension to them because they involve the State entering into a contract with...

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----the more I am reminded of a poem by Francis Duggan, "One Lie Leads To Another Lie So Happens To Be True", which goes:When you tell one lie it leads to another So you tell two lies to cover each other Then you tell three lies and, oh brother You're in trouble up to your ears.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: I would never apply that to the Cabinet and so on-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----but that seems to be the position in respect of this saga.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: Can the Taoiseach confirm the Minister, Deputy Reilly, will come into the House to make a statement? Is that the position? There has been a request by the Opposition but I am unsure whether it has been acceded to. Unquestionably, however, given all the different versions Members have heard on this matter, given that Fine Gael is having a meeting to discuss it and given that the Minister of...

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----to have an opportunity to get a clear, honest and truthful account of how the 15 sites were added.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am trying to make it easy for the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2012)

Micheál Martin: No, I referred to public private partnerships.