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

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is filibustering.

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

Micheál Martin: Whose fault is that? The Taoiseach has been filibustering every answer.

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

Micheál Martin: When did I say that?

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

Micheál Martin: Do not say untruths in the House. The Taoiseach is twisting words.

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

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is twisting words. It is his favourite sort of operation.

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

Micheál Martin: I asked a question about meeting the Finnish Prime Minister-----

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

Micheál Martin: -----the Dutch Prime Minister and the German Prime Minister.

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

Micheál Martin: The former Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, knows all about Deputy Lynch's loyalty and solidarity.

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

Micheál Martin: The Minister's number one fan.

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

Micheál Martin: The Ceann Comhairle should not be looking at this side of the House.

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

Micheál Martin: I beg your pardon? Do not address me in that manner.

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

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has been filibustering for the whole session. He has spent 15 minutes going around the world. It was no one else.

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

Micheál Martin: He will not answer a question.

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

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach's answer confirmed more or less the points that I made in my question. I would challenge him, as it was not correct to state that he was obliged to stick to the agenda set by Prime Minister Cameron. Setting the agenda for a meeting of the Taoiseach and the British Prime Minister has always been a two-way process.

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

Micheál Martin: One can always seek a meeting with the British Prime Minister or to have issues put on the agenda. The idea that the British Prime Minister would dictate the entire agenda is not tenable, particularly given the seriousness of these times.

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

Micheál Martin: It suggests an agenda of exaggerating about small gatherings around large events. They are not substantial bilateral meetings from which anything of consequence emerges. That is the reality and the Taoiseach would be better off stating as much.

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.