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Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I oppose the order the Ceann Comhairle is putting to me. My understanding, based on precedent, is that I am entitled to comment on why I oppose the order. As the leader of an Opposition party, I must state-----

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I asked for section 12 consideration regarding this issue yesterday. It is unprecedented that documentation would go to German parliamentarians before Irish ones. I do not have any problem with the concept once we get the documentation first. I find it extraordinary that we do not even get an opportunity to ask questions about it.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: We do not.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: It has been snuffed out.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: It has been deliberately suppressed and put down. We just have not got an opportunity. Yesterday, I got nothing from the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: It is not about changing Standing Orders. I am opposing this order-----

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: -----on the grounds that I would prefer to have time for a session of questions and answers, with either the Minister for Finance or the Taoiseach, on the process that led to the documentation going to the German Parliament before it came to the Dáil.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: It is a very reasonable request.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Barrett, as Ceann Comhairle, should defend the Members of the House in asking why this happened. That is all I ask.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: No.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: My basic issue on this-----

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: As I told the Taoiseach yesterday, the House should have an opportunity to discuss that draft programme of budget details that was sent to the German Parliament. We should have been allowed the opportunity to ask questions on how it got to the German parliamentarians before it was debated properly in this House. The Minister should have explained it to the House and taken questions on that...

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: There is nothing in the troika deal that states the Government has to give anything to anybody.

Order of Business (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Government Chief Whip should stop the jackboot stuff.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: German parliamentarians have had access to our budget details in advance of Members of Dáil Éireann.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: We are now learning that Fine Gael and Labour parliamentarians are receiving detailed briefings on budget options in the health arena.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach allow the Minister for Health to make the presentation to the House today that he made to the Fine Gael and Labour parliamentary parties-----

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: -----regarding the choices in the health arena? Having to pay to get a medical card is no laughing matter, Deputy Durkan.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Closing 42 community nursing units is not a laughing matter.

Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: It is this aspect of the proposals on which I want to focus. We need honest debate in the House about the choices facing us. The worrying element of the proposals outlined to Deputies last night was that of the pending closure of community hospitals around the country. There are more than 100 such units and they give excellent care to the elderly. Such drastic action would seem impossible...