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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach to set out his Department's priorities for 2018. [2111/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: On the priorities of the Department of the Taoiseach, I referred during our discussion on the previous group of questions to the need for sectoral impact studies in the context of Brexit. I put it to the Taoiseach that we do not know what the sectoral impacts will be under the various scenarios that may emerge from the EU-UK deal on Brexit, if such a deal emerges. I am thinking particularly...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, I thought the Irish unity issue would have been a separate question to that on the Cabinet sub-committee. Could we have a bit more time? Essentially we are asking two questions; one on Brexit and the European Union and one on Irish unity.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: They are two very separate questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I will do my best. On the question on Irish unity, one point that has caused a lot of division in recent years is that many people are getting tired of the politics of the empty gesture. The only credible way of achieving Irish unity remains in showing the majority in the North the strength of our community of interests and that we utterly reject the zero-sum sectarianism, of which there is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin represents the greatest barrier-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: -----to Irish unity. As a former Minister involved in North-South infrastructural development in education, health and enterprise, I regret very much the lack of progress on North-South infrastructure over the past eight or nine years. Will the Taoiseach tell the House of the North-South projects the Government is identifying, with the British government and the Northern political system -...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C, European Union, including Brexit, last met. [3062/18]

Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I suggest a slight amendment that, with the agreement of the House, the proposed concluding of statements on broadband at 11.15 p.m. on Wednesday be changed to adjourning of statements on this issue so as to facilitate the continuation of that business on Thursday and indeed into next week to give Deputies an opportunity speak on the issue, and that Deputies could be given a ten minute as...

Order of Business (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: De réir an Phríomhchigire na Roinne Oideachais agus Scileanna, tá an caighdeán sa Ghaeilge ag laghdú bliain i ndiaidh bliana, go háirithe ó 2013 amach. Níl dul chun cinn sásúil le feiscint sa Ghaeilge sna bunscoileanna ar fud na tíre. Bhí 26% de na ceachtanna a dhearnadh iniúchadh orthu gan chruinneas agus míshasúil...

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I note the Taoiseach's reply was devoid of any reference to the Government's failure with regard to broadband connectivity.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I was intrigued by the Taoiseach's opening remarks, in which he referred to what the Government has been able to do "in a short period of time". It is as if he is trying to wave a magic wand so we will ignore the fact that he has been a Minister since 2011.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach and his colleagues promised that there would be broadband connectivity by 2015.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I remind the Taoiseach that he was a member of the Government which, contrary to its promises, destroyed the esprit de crops of the effective and successful Leader programme.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: Fine Gael politicians wanted to take it away from the community and give themselves some credit.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: That is exactly what happened.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: That is what happened. It went from €400 million to €250 million. It was snarled in bureaucracy because individual Deputies and Ministers wanted the credit. They did not like non-politicians in community-led groups developing through the Leader programme.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I say very calmly that we are now in 2018 and we have spent just €13 million of the €250 million budget that was provided for a programme that lasts from 2014 to 2020.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: By any yardstick, we are failing to deliver on something that could have a very real impact in parishes throughout the country.

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I have travelled the length and breadth of the country from Moville to Kanturk. I have met people involved in very good industries. Those who advocate for rural Ireland do not talk it down. Most of them are self reliant. They want the best for their towns, villages and rural areas. They do not like being talked down to by the Taoiseach. They do not like lecturing from a Dublin-centric...