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Ceisteanna - Questions: General Data Protection Regulation (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The GDPR will ensure a harmonised system of data protection rules that will work across the European Union. My understanding is the Bill will be before the committee tomorrow and I hope it will pass all Stages by 25 May. It is unfortunate that we are so late in the day, given the fact that companies and others are preparing for the introduction of the legislation. We welcome the...

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill has not been mentioned.

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I would like to propose a compromise. Would 15 minutes be sufficient for the Minister's address?

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: As a former Minister, Deputy Brendan Howlin is aware of how speeches can be padded.

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Minister should have 15 minutes for his address. Questions and answers are vital. That is what the people want. A further 20 minutes could be provided for backbenchers.

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I suggest a half an hour. We can reconsider the matter tomorrow. In fairness, almost 3.5 hours is being provided. We need to be reasonable.

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: In a major announcement in November 2015 in response to a range of issues about patient safety the Taoiseach said the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill 2015 would make mandatory the reporting of events which had resulted in death or serious harm. At the time the heads of the Bill had been published but in May 2018 the Bill remains in Schedule B. It has been around for a long time....

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Nothing was done on the Bill.

Order of Business (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is open ended.

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has commented a number of times that it would have made no difference if women had been told about this in advance. He is making that from a clinical perspective in terms of the actual diagnosis of cancer and the response to it, but I suggest it would have made a hell of a difference to the women involved, and to their families, because in not informing the women their families...

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Everybody knew but nobody knew, and nobody could tell us anything in the past week. It had to be dragged and drip-fed in a frenzied way. I have to put that to the Taoiseach.

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Irish public, especially the women of Ireland, have been genuinely shocked at the failure to inform Vicky Phelan and many other women of the false negative screening results of smear tests which they undertook, and also at the appalling manner in which Vicky Phelan was treated since. It is particularly objectionable that she was forced all the way into the High Court before settling her...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 62. To ask the Taoiseach the way in which the €2.5 million was spent by the strategic communications unit since its inception in September 2017. [18765/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Budgets (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 63. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Revised Estimate for his Department. [18863/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Government Information Service (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 64. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the role of the GIS in co-ordinating cross-departmental information campaigns. [18864/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 65. To ask the Taoiseach when the citizen research for the strategic communications unit will commence. [18865/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken or written to the Israeli ambassador about Israel's 70th anniversary commemoration celebrations. [19090/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the negotiations on reconvening the Northern Ireland Assembly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18862/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his departmental officials have met with him recently to report on the progress on the talks to reconvene the Northern Ireland Assembly. [18809/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (1 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 75. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if officials in his Department have briefed him on the status of Brexit negotiations and the preparations being made for March 2019. [18808/18]