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- Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: I wish to share my time with Deputies Dooley, Calleary and MacSharry. Given the scale of current problems in vital areas such as hospital waiting lists, homelessness, non-functioning Northern institutions and Brexit, it is indeed to be regretted that we have to spend parliamentary time discussing Government communications. However, there is no alternative because the Taoiseach's approach to...
- Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: He has admitted it there. He has of course.
- Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: While the clear abuse evident in the launch of the national development plan brought this controversy to a head, the reality is that all of the unit's work serves the same goal. The squalid reality is that the Government has sought to use public money to compromise the boundary between public information and propaganda. We have seen that revealed with a Minister sitting at her desk deciding...
- Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: We never complained about the information.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Recruitment (20 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: 27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there will be an increase in the number of staff in his Department in 2018 particularly in the areas covering Brexit in Dublin and Brussels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11818/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (20 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: 28. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the negotiations on reconvening the Northern Assembly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11819/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Meetings (20 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his meeting with the shadow chancellor in London on 5 March 2018; the issues that were discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11923/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Meetings (20 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his meeting with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Philip Hammond, in London on 5 March 2018; the issues that were discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11924/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (20 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will have a place in a secondary school which caters for their special needs in September 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12271/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (8 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: 16. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to Mr. Barnier since the draft withdrawal agreement; and his views on his comments on Brexit transition being far from a sure thing. [11333/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (8 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: 32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the back stop arrangements he envisages if option 1, the Government's preferred option, and option 2 fail to be negotiated in the context of the withdrawal agreement. [11334/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (8 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: 33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the impact he and his officials view the draft withdrawal agreement will have on talks on reconvening the Northern Ireland Assembly. [11332/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: 255. To ask the Minister for Health if a student placement in the health service is available and will be provided to a person (details supplied). [10838/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (8 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: 289. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10947/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Development Plan (8 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: 352. To ask the Minister for Health if meetings have been held in his Department regarding the new hospitals announced in the NDP and NPF; when the process will begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11288/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Payments (8 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: 590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is considering extending the fuel allowance since the extreme cold spell started. [11335/18]
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: That is in relation to the Good Friday Agreement.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: That is why you collapsed the institutions.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the Tánaiste.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: I make these comments in a very constructive-----