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Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Government has done no preparatory work. It has merely introduced the household charge.

Leaders' Questions (21 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: What about an extension?

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: In the past few weeks there have, to say the least, been mixed messages from the Government in regard to Ireland's obligations on the promissory note issue. As the Taoiseach knows, the promissory note mechanism was created and agreed as banks were not allowed to fail. Depositors needed to be protected and no other European Union facility existed at the time to facilitate the...

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Could the Taoiseach confirm to the House what exactly he has been looking for? Has the Government formally sought a deal that would involve, for example, extending the obligation over 30 years? Is it seeking a write-down of the money owed to the Irish Central Bank? I ask the Taoiseach to answer those basic questions. Can he confirm that the commentary by the Minister, Deputy Burton, in...

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer the question I asked. Has the Government formally sought a deal that would involve extending the obligation over 30 years or is it seeking a write down of the money owed to the Irish Central Bank? It is technical, complex and sensitive, but boils down to that fundamental question. The Opposition cannot be accused of raising expectations. The only people who...

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: They should shut up and allow the negotiations to run their course, if this is what the Taoiseach wants. He should not be messing around over this issue. Will the Taoiseach confirm that the paper will be published? Has he sought an extension of the obligation over 30 years or is he seeking a write-down of the money owed to the Irish Central Bank?

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Government is telling everybody else, however. Every morning on the front page of The Irish Times, the Irish Independent and the Irish Examiner, Ministers are saying, "Here is the deal."

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: What about the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton?

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should tell that to his colleagues. They have done so.

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: What about a write-down?

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should tell his Ministers that.

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Thank the Greeks for that.

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is on the public record.

Leaders' Questions (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: We will read in the newspapers tomorrow morning.

Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: One could say that I am in search of clarity and certainty on a number of issues this morning.

Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am getting none so far. Regarding the forthcoming fiscal compact treaty and the legislation that is required to facilitate it, it is fair to say at this stage that, in the context of the entire constitutional reform programme, there is an absence-----

Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: In terms of the constitutional reform programme, there seems to be an absence of any clarity or certainty from the Government. My question relates to the legislation to facilitate the referendum on the fiscal compact treaty. Yesterday, the Taoiseach was not in a position to answer the question on whether the legislation to establish the European Stability Mechanism, ESM, would be introduced...

Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach already did.

Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach stated it as recently as one month ago.

Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach publish a realistic indicative timeline? The referendum on the fiscal compact treaty clearly has to take place. We need to know whether it will then be possible to hold the referendum on children's rights and when that will be held, and then there is the referendum on the Seanad. The Taoiseach has an opportunity to include the Seanad issue in the remit of the...