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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements: Supplementary Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Prime Minister May in January 2018 regarding Northern Ireland and Brexit. [3061/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements: Supplementary Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Prime Minister May since talks to reconvene the Northern Ireland Executive have recommenced. [4322/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements: Supplementary Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: One of the clearest messages of the last month is that nothing has actually been secured for Ireland in the negotiations thus far. When the spin and self-congratulation are put aside, the reality is that the phase one agreement commits the United Kingdom and the European Union to the same positions they offered at the start of the process. The frustration is that, so far, there has not been...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements: Supplementary Questions (31 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach's speech to the European Parliament was surprising in the extent to which it failed to address most of the most urgent issues facing the EU. One of these is how we react to member states that seem to reject basic democratic norms such as the balance of power and independence for both the media and academia. Hungary is a member state and we must deal with it. I do not have an...

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: There is a clear commitment in the programme for Government committing the Government to tackling criminal gangs. It is with great horror that people watch on a regular basis murder and mayhem on our streets, in particular in Dublin. In the past ten days alone there have been two more very callous murders - one last night - which we condemn unreservedly. It is an appalling loss of life...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: Some months ago, I raised in Leaders' Questions the plight facing our hospices, employees in our hospices and indeed other section 39 organisations providing disability services and mental health services among others due to the Government's decision to exclude them from pay restoration agreements. There has been an unfair, cynical and downright dishonest approach to these organisations with...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: That is a cop-out. It is unacceptable and dishonest. The HSE has been auditing these organisations year in, year out. There was correspondence from the Labour Court hearing from 14 December 2009 and January 2010 instructing these organisations, at the time of the pay cuts, to align their pay scales with the HSE pay scales. The net effect of that, said the Labour Court, was to apply pay...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: They are not caught in the middle.

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is not opinion. It is a fact. They are not being paid.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (31 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: 126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to EU leaders at or since the last European Council meeting about the length of time for the transition phase for the UK following March 2019; and if Ireland's request for a five-year transition period will be considered or reached. [4557/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (31 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: 127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has met with his officials to discuss phase 2 of the Brexit negotiations. [4558/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (31 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: 255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has spoken to his French counterpart regarding CAP policy recently. [4326/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (30 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: What does the Taoiseach make of the shifting sands?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Hungary; the meetings that were held; and the issues that were discussed with Mr. Viktor Orbán. [1382/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (30 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: In recent months, the Taoiseach's refusal to answer simple factual questions has been a feature of this series of exchanges. Several times I have asked for basic information about decisions on infrastructure and investment. What tends to happen is that the Taoiseach goes on talking about other issues that have not been asked about but not about the specific questions asked. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (30 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Burton will find him in Stepaside.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: I too have had the privilege of visiting our troops serving overseas in the cause of peace, including in the Middle East. They are a source of immense pride for the country and always have been. One is always struck by the warmth with which they are received by host populations and the acceptance of their bona fides in making a contribution and their objectivity in peacekeeping and peace...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent trip to Lebanon; the meetings that were held; and the detail of his discussions with the Defence Force while there. [1383/18]

Order of Business (30 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: What I am about to ask again cuts to the heart of honesty in the framing of the health Estimate. I refer to section 39 organisations. What happened was fundamentally dishonest. When the public service pay determination was agreed to and new agreements were made, everybody assumed that those who worked in disability organisations and hospices would have their pay restored in line with that...

Order of Business (30 Jan 2018)

Micheál Martin: I will conclude. Others get an opportunity every now and again. Will the Taoiseach, please, make a determination and will the Government, please, do the right thing by the people who work in these services by including them in the pay determination for HSE employees?