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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: They did not get the opportunities; that is what happened.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: Groups with far fewer Deputies in the House got much more time-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: What we need is a bit of balance; that is all. As far as I am concerned-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the Deputy. This is a plenary session, and people felt they were excluded. They made representations to the various parties. All parties, in negotiating future orders for this Dáil, arrived at conclusions, agreements and so on. I was not at the meeting of the Business Committee; I do not attend its meetings. My understanding is that an agreement was reached at a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: It is not as simple as bringing in emergency legislation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: We had to in terms of the Covid payment, the pandemic unemployment payments and the wage subsidy scheme for hundreds of thousands of people.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: They were very straightforward measures to give a legislative basis to make sure that workers did not go without during the pandemic, particularly before the summer recess. In this situation, it is about changing company law and bringing in recommendations - a combination of both - that emanate from the Duffy-Cahill report. The Duffy-Cahill report in itself would not necessarily, in some...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: New loopholes emerge.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: We have got to make sure we do this properly this time. We must ensure that loopholes are boxed off, that there is a greater emphasis on protecting collective agreements in employment law into the future and preventing bad practices in terms of separation of assets from trading income and a whole load of mechanisms that can be used by some companies to exit from their obligations.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: I was only going to suggest that the eloquence of the Deputy proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that it is impossible to gag him.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: The report did not make specific proposals for changes to the Companies Act 2014; rather its proposals were primarily concerned with amendments to employment law and the company law review group has considered options in respect of company law. The Tánaiste has asked it to do so now with a view to protecting the rights of workers where collective agreements have been arrived at....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: We are keeping a very strong watch on this and will do everything we can to try to ease the pressures on those securing places this year.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: As I said, the Government has approved 5,000 extra places this year to try to ease the pressures. The calculated grades model is robust and as fair as it can possibly be. The decision to take out the socio-economic profiling of schools was correct and was broadly welcomed in the House. The Government does not have within its capacity the power to create places for every single person...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday was a special day for the thousands of students in the class of 2020 and their families. It is fair to say these students have endured a lot of anxiety and uncertainty over the past year due to the severe impact that Covid-19 has had on their lives, education and leaving certificate examinations. School communities and teachers articulated more than a sigh of relief that we have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy implied it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: No, I did not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy's assertion is untrue. I did not have sight of that offer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: I am telling Deputy Barry the truth. Will he withdraw what he just said? I did not have sight of that offer before the workers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy cannot be making assertions of that kind.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Sep 2020)

Micheál Martin: What is happening, from Deputy Barry's perspective, and has happened from the beginning of the dispute, is that this is about the politicisation and exploitation of the issue to the best political advantage of the Deputy. I put it to him bluntly that that is what he is about. My focus is on what I can do practically for the workers.