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- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is just filibustering.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is just filibustering. This has turned into a Second Stage debate rather than a question and answer session on the European Council meeting.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: I was surprised at the Taoiseach's touchy response to my simple request to publish the text of the van Rompuy compromise text from the 11 March meeting. Publishing it would allow people make up their minds objectively as to whether the Taoiseach skilfully handled the meeting or bungled it. He has decided not to publish it, however. Yesterday, I asked about his recent meeting with the French...
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: I posed three specific questions in respect of the European Central Bank, the text-----
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: Why did the Taoiseach agree to a text which is weaker than that issued on 11 March?
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer my three specific questions on the European Central Bank and the conclusions reached at last week's meeting, which were different from what was agreed on 11 March.
- Northern Ireland Issues (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: On the broader issue of contacts with the Northern Ireland Executive, we need evidence of a more active engagement with the North from across the Government. It is surprising that four months into the term of the new Government there has been no formal series of meetings between the Taoiseach and Northern leaders. I would have expected that to have happened at this stage. It is important...
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: Last week's meeting of the European Council was the latest in an increasingly lengthy series of crisis meetings. Its primary objective was again to find a way of containing the threat of a significant sovereign debt default by showing how the leaders are committed to comprehensive and credible action. As even the most basic look at the events and commentary since Friday suggests, this...
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: As the Taoiseach knows well, but refuses to admit because it would undermine one of his favourite attack lines, the interest rate on Ireland's support package was a fixed figure and not open to negotiation. In subsequent discussions, our partners agreed to reopen the issue. This culminated in the February agreement, formally ratified on 11 March, that our interest rate should be reduced in...
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: So the Taoiseach will publish it.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach publish it?
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Kenny is the Taoiseach. Will he publish it?
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am asking whether the Taoiseach will publish the text.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: So the Taoiseach is not going to publish it. The delay in the deal to take account of the stress tests was reasonable, but given the fact that the stress tests and subsequent Government banking announcement were indistinguishable from expectations and existing policy, the failure to conclude a deal in March is inexplicable. Beyond the fact that the Government has halved the value of what it...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday anyone who was paying attention to this Chamber could see there was a problem with Labour Party Ministers and backbenchers.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: This morning the reason for the decision to stay away from the Chamber during Leaders' Questions has been revealed. According to all reports, the Government yesterday argued and then failed to reach agreement on what the Taoiseach has called the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation's personal agenda to reduce the basic conditions guaranteed by joint labour committees. This is not a...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Social Protection has told the media the proposed changes will significantly increase welfare costs and was supported in this by the Tánaiste.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: In reply, staff speaking on behalf of the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation have replied that he is bravely facing down the Labour Party.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: When will this end? Is the Taoiseach going to stand by while the Minister tries to present himself as the tough guy of the new Government by ignoring an independent report and briefing against his coalition partners? Is the Taoiseach happy that one Minister's personal agenda is causing this confusion?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: I did actually.