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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: By any stretch of the imagination it is stretching credibility to suggest that the resolution put forward by the Chief Whip in any way confers Opposition status on other TDs. I outlined that earlier when I reminded Deputy McDonald that in other parliaments it is a matter of form and norm that non-government deputies and government deputies who are not officeholders get to ask questions. The...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The headline in the newspaper read: 'We'll meet big three, but with no intention of going into government' - Ivana Bacik rules Labour out of coalition. According to the article, it is recorded in the minutes of the Labour Party's national executive that they "will meet the big three as a courtesy, but with no intention of going into government".
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is the reality facing the Dáil.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Labour Party had no sincerity about going into government, and neither did the Social Democrats. The regional Independent group wanted a Government formed. That is the bottom line here. There is an obligation to form a Government. Now, may I say-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----just because people keep making false assertions-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----that the Chief Whip never gave a nod?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The nod became a thumbs-up.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: This is all Sinn Féin-speak, and now Deputy Bacik is parroting it. The Labour Party has tied itself to the hip of Sinn Féin and will regret it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I know the Labour Party a long time. I know a lot of ordinary Labour Party supporters who are not happy with the way it has become an appendage to the Sinn Féin Party.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: When Deputy Bacik used the phrase "prearranged"-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----she was parroting the Sinn Féin false assertion.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I do not mind Deputy Bacik having a different view - of course we all have different views and different perspectives - but-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----she cannot make deliberately false assertions, just generally.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is false.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: There was nothing preconceived. The Ceann Comhairle has a responsibility that the business of the House gets done. The new tactic is this: if we shout loud enough, if we stop everybody on the Government side from talking and if we create mayhem and chaos, the Ceann Comhairle must then adjourn the Dáil and we get our way. That cannot be the new precedent either but that is what...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Ar dtús báire, ní aontaím in aon chor leis an Teachta. Is dóigh liom nach bhfuil sí ag insint na fírinne in aon chor sa mhéid a dúirt sí faoin Chief Whip. At the outset I wish to say that before this Dáil was convened, we were told - in no uncertain manner - that we faced a new era of total opposition. That was the Sinn Féin...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Since Dáil Éireann first met, its rules have changed hundreds of times. Many times these rules have been changed without agreement between all parties. We have regularly had votes on changes to parliamentary procedure. The concept of an Opposition veto is found nowhere in the democratic world.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: In this case, what we have is the profoundly antidemocratic demand that non-office holders be kept quiet if they support the Government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday, a number of Opposition spokespeople claimed no other country in the world would do this. It is a sad commentary on their approach that they would use such inflated language to make provably false claims. A basic review of democratic parliaments around the world shows that Ireland may in fact be the only one which refuses to allow Government-supporting TDs to ask priority oral...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: To give just a few examples; in Germany all non-Ministers have access to oral questions.