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Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: With regard to the Pat Finucane inquiry, the Taoiseach, on behalf of the Government, is party to an international agreement. He represents all of us with regard to the fulfilment and delivery of this agreement. As the Taoiseach is aware there is no sense of any breakthrough on getting the inquiry to which all sides have signed up. Does he see any light at the end of that tunnel? Have his...

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: It was not - he never dealt with it.

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: He never asked him.

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: No.

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach remember the Fine Gael document, "Credit where Credit is Due"?

Official Engagements (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is Frankfurt's way or Labour's way.

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: With regard to the situation pertaining to Deputy Mick Wallace, his statement last Thursday morning on RTE that he knowingly under-declared VAT to the Revenue and the subsequent public debate that has developed, which has been very widespread and has been in all the main media since then, I put it to the Taoiseach that the scale of the issue is substantial. I know the Deputy offered to make...

Order of Business (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: I accept that.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: This week we had the development with regard to the intervention by the European authorities on the Spanish bank debt and the decision to recapitalise Spanish bank debt by adding €100 million to the sovereign debt of Spain. Does the Taoiseach accept it is a bad deal overall for Spain, Ireland and Europe in the sense that it represents another sticking plaster approach to the resolution of...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: There was no bank guarantee in Spain, yet the Spanish citizens and the Spanish Government have to cough up €100 billion on the balance sheet. The Taoiseach has just given the House a non-answer. At the beginning of his reply he said that I have no right to speak on behalf of the Spanish Government. It is not a Spanish problem; it is a European problem.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is not just an Irish problem; it is a eurozone crisis and that is the point. The Taoiseach contradicted himself by saying he wrote to all the leaders saying it should be a European mechanism and the link should be severed from the national. He cannot have it both ways. It is not just a Spanish problem anymore. That is the issue and it goes to the core. The Taoiseach should not distort...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: ------sought a European mechanism to deal with the bank debt and the recapitalisation of the banks. He was saying it was a mistake on the part of the European authorities and they still have lessons to learn about the crisis which has escalated over the past 15 months to become a genuine, eurozone-wide crisis. Even the European Commission-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----has said-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----it wants to create mechanisms for the eurozone. The Taoiseach studiously avoided answering my question about the publication of the technical paper. He did not deal with that basic question. Will he publish the technical paper and will he let us know, in an open and clear way, what exactly he is looking for as regards the promissory note issue? There were no European facilities such...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: There is a danger that it will spread to every country, one by one, until we really are in the middle of an existential crisis for the euro. There should be less of the PR, less of the spin, less of the smart alec politics from the Taoiseach and let us get down to reality. It is too late to be writing letters - get at it and sort it out. Will he publish the technical paper?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach voted for it at the time.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: Spain had no bank guarantee and they have €100 billion recapitalisation.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should stop trying to spin his way out of this.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: He did not say that. This is distortion and it is the Taoiseach's stock in trade. He should not mislead the House.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: Come off it; just publish it.