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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Policy Functions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer the question on hostels.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Policy Functions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach took his time to get to it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Policy Functions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: It makes no sense.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Policy Functions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Burton wins on both.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Meetings (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the EU social summit in Gothenburg; and the issues that were discussed. [49849/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Meetings (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he held bilaterals at the EU summit on social rights in Gothenburg; and the issues that were discussed. [49850/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Meetings (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: The European social pillar document and strategy launched at the summit sets out a series of principles of social policy, which are accepted by member states. It has no justiciable basis, of course, but it is intended as a means of setting broad objectives for national and European Union activity. It is a very worthy document but it is not clear what importance is attached to it. It is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Policy Functions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: How many people work in the social policy and public service reform division and how many work on the Sláintecare report and policy which the Taoiseach says the Government is considering? The Taoiseach indicated yesterday that the communications unit, which is under his command – he picked the head man for it - would organise communications campaigns particularly on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Policy Functions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: It has been liaising with all Deputies for quite some time. The project goes back a long time over successive Governments.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Policy Functions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: It does not belong to anyone. It does not belong to the Taoiseach although he has sometimes claimed it does. The decisions predated the Taoiseach's role. The former Minister for Health, now Senator Reilly, had an impact. Mary Harney even had an impact but the planning derailed that project.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Policy Functions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: My point is that there is a sense that the real function of the communications unit and the €5 million of taxpayers' money is to promote the Government and the Ministers, not the hospital. I genuinely believe there is a danger in how this grows and evolves. If a hospital is a self-contained entity in its work it is difficult to comprehend why its communications agenda is located...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: In the programme for Government, under the subheading "Ireland-UK Relations", it is stated, "Building on the successful state visits [and so on], we will continue to enhance Ireland's relationship with the United Kingdom [and so forth]". Amid everything that has happened in the past two weeks, there was a very serious breach and leak of foreign affairs documentation. Our diplomats, as he...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: -----was released recently in a leak to a very good journalist but, from the perspective of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, I think it will damage UK-Ireland relations. A British judge was quoted, so how can any diplomat, civil servant or politician around the world have any confidence in the Irish Government's-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: -----capacity any more to garner such off-the-record briefings and so on? In light of the programme for Government commitment and the damage this has done to our relationship with Britain, about which there is no doubt, will the Taoiseach confirm that an investigation of that breach has taken place? Will he undertake to update the House in this regard and let us know the outcome of that...

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: Is the money therefore owed already?

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: The money is owed so.

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: People will have been concerned to learn that the assistant commissioner of the Dublin metropolitan region, Pat Leahy, has advised that no overtime is to be incurred other than in respect of Operation C-Port and Operation Hybrid. In his instruction, he declared in very stark language:No other overtime is authorised and any operations intended on an overtime basis are hereby cancelled ... The...

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: If enough money is available, it should not be the case in any national system that a declaration of this nature, with so many implications, is made. Did the Garda inform the Department of Justice and Equality that it intended to make this announcement to all gardaí across the country? Surely proper planning would dictate that something like this should not occur at this time of the...

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has said he shares the concerns about this matter and needs to understand it a bit better. He has said he would have assumed that Garda management knew about these arrangements. This instruction was issued by an assistant commissioner on the basis that "the Garda Budget for 2017 has been exhausted". I think we need a better explanation of how this has happened within our...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 79. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to First Minister Arlene Foster since 12 November 2017 regarding Northern Ireland and Brexit. [50535/17]