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Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Government has told us nothing about what is going on. It told us nothing last month. It told us nothing the month before. It is pathetic nonsense.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I am waiting for proposals.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: This is not a Fine Gael meeting in Dublin 4.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: This is a serious Dáil session on the most important summit, potentially, in the history of the euro.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State is giving us this kind of pathetic nonsense.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: That is what it is.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Come on now, Phil.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is wrong.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: According to an Austrian study, we had the fifth highest rate among the 27 member states over the last ten years.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Thanks be to God.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: He has had no such engagements.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: We have been telling you that in here for six months. I welcome the Government's belated conversion to our thinking.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: It is.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State should go back over her speeches.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State should go back over her speeches for the past nine months and tell me how it is not a belated conversion.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I have been saying this for the past six months in this Chamber and the Minister of State ridiculed me. Only a month ago, the Minister of State claimed we had make a great breakthrough.

Pre-European Council Meeting on 8-9 December: Statements (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I want a debate but the Minister of State will not even take questions now.

Order of Business (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. I want to put on record my total opposition to the guillotine of the very substantial and important Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011.

Order of Business (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I am opposing the guillotine of the Bill. We had many commitments about transparency and about the facilitation of debate in this regard.

Order of Business (30 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday, we raised a similar issue in regard to the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011 but only one amendment from Deputy Sean Fleming was taken because of the guillotining of Committee and Report Stages after only half an hour, although 21 amendments were tabled.