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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the information in his Department regarding contracts with marketing companies. [9658/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: In only nine months, the Taoiseach has become renowned for his refusal to back off a partisan position no matter what happens. There are worrying signs that he sees no difference between the State's interests and those of his own party. He said yesterday that this is not even an issue about which we should be talking. The reason this issue keeps arising is because it involves a personal...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: In fairness-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I think the Deputy wants to ask the Taoiseach whether he consulted the President of Italy on that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: Unfortunately, I think it was the Taoiseach's decision not to have statements before or after last week's summit. Having told us last year how eager he was to have a much greater public engagement on European Union issues this reluctance to engage with the House is surprising and somewhat disappointing. It is also surprising that he is not willing to have any discussion on the European...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: We are on European issues.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: For goodness' sake we either take this seriously or we do not.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of Italy, Mr. Sergio Mattarella. [8470/18]

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: They were all part of the one decision.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I wish to raise the criminal law (sexual offences) Bill in the context of the Garda Inspectorate report on child sex abuse cases. It is quite appalling to read about the level of lethargy and inaction in that regard, particularly the lack of implementation of previous reports in 2012 on this serious area of crime prevention. The report showed a 64% increase in Internet-based offending yet...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I ask the Minister to do that-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is important we have this discussed at the earliest opportunity because it is a very serious issue.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Minister himself said it is unacceptable.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I am trying to be constructive, a Cheann Comhairle.

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I make my remarks on schools constructively and on the basis that the Fianna Fáil Party spokesperson, Deputy Thomas Byrne, spoke to the Minister for Education and Skills before Storm Ophelia urging that schools be closed in red alert areas. School boards of management cannot be summoned in the middle of the night or at 6 a.m., as a principal said today. The Government is leaving the...

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I will not comment on the Taoiseach's obsession with what he said about all of that yesterday.

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I would like the Government to examine the issue of schools, even for the future. Second, on public transport and roads-----

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: -----will the Taoiseach indicate whether local authorities will be properly resourced in respect of those issues? Will they have the equipment to keep the main arteries open?

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: Since last Sunday, we have been warned about a very severe weather event which will reach its peak over the coming days. I commend the front-line services on their work to date. In particular, I commend Seán Hogan and his team on the national co-ordination efforts. I also pay tribute to Met Éireann for the precision of its work. I thank the media for broadcasting the guidance to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: Brexit issues and the talks on Northern Ireland are entirely different.