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

Micheál Martin: How dare the Minister of State come in here with that kind of nonsense?

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.