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Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: I am fed up with going to service providers with emergency cases. Everybody is.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: The service provider says back to us that it is getting no funding from Government.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: This is the reality.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: Last night the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, stated it shone a light on it. It did not shine a light on it because everybody knows this.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: The real problem is it requires a step-change in Government response. The national intellectual disability database lays out the demographic challenges and the 5,000 plus additional adult children with intellectual disability, if one uses that phrase, coming on stream who need new services.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: The data is there for the Government. What is missing is action and resources. I would ask the Taoiseach to watch the programme and come back to the House with an action programme to deal with the crisis that so many families in this country are facing right now.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Brexit Negotiations (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: 86. To ask the Taoiseach if he has written to all of the EU 27 prime ministers seeking support in the Brexit negotiations. [51997/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Strategy Statements (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: 87. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the commitment in his Department's strategy statement to implement 25 actions in the Civil Service renewal plan including HR capability and strengthening performance management and accountability; the way in which this is being achieved; and the position regarding same. [52097/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Programme for Government Priorities (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: 88. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the commitment in the programme for Government regarding completing a core structural review of decision making arrangements across the common areas of security and defence; and the progress to date on same. [52099/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: 89. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee which has responsibility for equality and inclusiveness. [52100/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: 91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if officials in his Department have given him an update on progressing improvements for the undocumented Irish in the United States of America. [52098/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is a year since we were told the new capital investment plan was nearly ready and would run up to 2021. Since then, the plan has been repeatedly delayed and the Taoiseach has announced it will claim to be a plan for the period up to 2027. For the first time in the history of such plans, the Government is proposing to announce and then sell, via a multi-million euro marketing campaign, a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: We need to reflect on the spatial plan because it is putting limits on development in towns across the country.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on Cabinet committee A - economy. [51711/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: Earlier this year, NESC produced a detailed research paper relating to the development of infrastructure plans and the levels of consultation that represent good practice. Has the Taoiseach implemented the plan in this way in preparing for the new capital plan and the national marketing plan? In every study of the Irish economy, whether public or private, there has been an absolutely...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee that covers housing and homelessness. [51712/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee in which transport is discussed. [51996/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: Are we taking Questions Nos. 1 to 4 together?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: We need to be clear. The first question is on housing and homelessness. The fourth is on transport and the third is on infrastructure. I would have believed the question on housing would be separate from that on transport. We need to be very careful that we are not amalgamating questions and making it impossible for people to focus on a core issue within the minute and a half they are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: On the transport question, I have a number of points. Can the Taoiseach outline the position on our utilisation of the European Investment Fund and particularly the European Fund for Strategic Investment, known as the Juncker plan? We have apparently secured investment only in primary health care centres under that particular plan. Trenitlaia, the national train operator in Italy, has...