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Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has failed to deliver and has failed even to put the issue on the negotiating table.

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach now regret making-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: In short, does the Taoiseach regret misleading the Irish people on this very specific issue?

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Every member of this Government, including the Taoiseach and those sitting behind him, was elected on a commitment not to pay the full €700 million to the Anglo bondholders, which is being repaid today. He can dress up his position in all of the brazen nonsense he wants-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: -----but he cannot wriggle out of his own clear words. In fact, the value of the bond collapsed in February as a result of Fine Gael and Labour statements and commitments and since then, the Taoiseach has done absolutely nothing to implement his commitments. It is incredible the lengths to which he has gone not to burn these bondholders.

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach stood on many occasions and on many a platform saying he would not pay these bondholders. At the four crisis summits he has attended-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: -----he did not table any measure to allow the burning of these bondholders; he did not meet Mr. Trichet about it; he did not meet Mr. Draghi about it when he was appointing him as the president of the ECB; and he did not raise it with his close friend, Chancellor Merkel. The Taoiseach made a solemn promise of not another red cent more. If he was told in March-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: -----what was the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, doing in June in New York telling the world he would not pay these bondholders? He told RTE but he did not have the guts to say it to the bankers on that occasion.

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: Everything the Taoiseach says in here means absolutely nothing; his words mean nothing-----

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: -----his words mean nothing in here.

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State, Deputy Creighton, stated the Taoiseach would not put this on the agenda for the Dáil. I did not need to be at the meeting.

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: This is very serious.

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: I beg your pardon, a Cheann Comhairle, this is not play-acting.

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: You had nothing to do with that. Stop spinning.

Leaders' Questions (2 Nov 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is the best man I ever saw for claiming he scored goals with his hind legs.

Civil Defence (26 Oct 2011)

Micheál Martin: Question 11: To ask the Minister for Defence the proposed timeline for the reintegration of the Civil Defence organisation into the army; when it is proposed to introduce the Civil Defence (Repeal) Bill; and if he has had consultations with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government on this matter. [31346/11]

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Micheál Martin: I have been consistent on these issues from the outset. We have always said there could not be unilateral action by Ireland, and that is what we said before the election. The parties in Government made it clear they would unilaterally burn bondholders - they have reneged on that. The position is now different because at this summit there is a pan-European approach to bank capital and to...

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Micheál Martin: I never-----

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Micheál Martin: What was the formula?

EU Summits: Statements (26 Oct 2011)

Micheál Martin: This is akin to scoring goals from the sideline.