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Private Members' Business, Special Educational Needs: Motion (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: I wish to share my time with Deputy Brendan Smith and Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív who, I anticipate, will arrive in the nick of time. We have 15 minutes to speak so it will be a difficult challenge to deal with all aspects of this issue. Since it came to office, this Government has placed a higher priority on the presentation of announcements than on their content. Nowhere was this clearer than...

Written Answers — Mental Health Services: Mental Health Services (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to lift the staff moratorium in relation to psychiatric services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1180/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Reform: Health Service Reform (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 957: To ask the Minister for Health if he has attended meetings regarding the special delivery unit in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37017/11]

Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: I have in my hand-----

Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is relevant to what I am about to say. It is an absolute necessity to have an iPhone in the House because today the treaty on stability, coordination and governance in the economic and monetary union was leaked online.

Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: It highlights the irrelevance of this House to promised legislation in terms of a European Union treaty. We have been asking for months for details of the Government's proposals for this treaty and for its position on a new EU treaty. The Government has committed itself to a European Union treaty, a draft copy of which has now been leaked. The Taoiseach must have access to the detail of...

Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: What about this draft?

Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Attorney General would surely be consulted if these issues were being discussed by the Permanent Representatives and the officials negotiating for the 27 member states.

Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is fundamental and requires more than a parliamentary question. A Bill has been drafted and the Attorney General has already been consulted. It is not true to say the Attorney General has not been consulted.

Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Attorney General has been consulted. The Taoiseach should not tell the House the Attorney General has not been consulted.

Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: I know something about treaties.

Order of Business (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Everyone is in agreement on this one.

Employment Rights (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I rang the Minister for Finance before Christmas and he got the Chairman of NAMA to ring me and he said that it would be ultra vires of NAMA to become involved. I would like to get the precise legal basis under the Act upon which it cannot get involved. Having said that, the responsibility lies with the employer. Getting a solution to this for...

Employment Rights (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Thank you.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Without any warning or preparation, 150,000 pensioners received letters from the Revenue Commissioners to inform them they had underpaid their taxes due to a failure on their part to include their State pension when calculating their tax liability. It is very difficult to comprehend how the issuing of 150,000 letters of this nature to pensioners was not known to the Government or to any...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer the questions I asked as to whether he was personally aware that 150,000 letters were going out to pensioners. He also did not answer as to why there was no political accountability or responsibility for the decision to send out those letters. The Revenue Commissioners have confirmed to the Oireachtas committee that when they realised the scale and implications...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: The intention should have been stated in the budget.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: It was a sum of €45 million.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is still not reasonably answering the questions.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: I was there last year.