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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (28 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 221. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the discussion on human rights in the context of the Brexit negotiations. [50667/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (28 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 237. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the status of progress with regard to the Irish undocumented in the United States of America. [49852/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospice Services Provision (28 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 306. To ask the Minister for Health if the section 39 hospices will receive funding to enable them to refund the cuts that were made following the application of FEMPI; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the country's hospices are facing a deficit of approximately €4 million which will force them to cut services in 2018 and also pose staff recruitment problems; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: EU Agreements (28 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the European Pillar of Social Rights is binding. [49849/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (28 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 684. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will allocate more funding to Mountmellick following the recent flash flooding which has caused damage to homes, businesses and roads in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50623/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (28 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will allocate funding to Laois County Council for Mountmellick and other areas in County Laois following the recent flash flooding which has caused damage to homes businesses and roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50624/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Strategy (23 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 42. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if officials in her Department have a role in monitoring developments on the concentrated effort of China opening its markets and dominance in world trade; and if there will be increased resources allocated to Ireland's agencies in China. [45044/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staffing vacancies in his Department. [47899/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the number of advertisements for staff recruitment his Department has. [49417/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. In June last, he informed the House that he intended to study staffing and roles in the Department before taking decisions about priorities. Will he indicate what happened to that process? When we discussed this topic last week, the Taoiseach indicated he did not know how many staff were assigned to specific policy areas. I hope it can be assumed that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: Go away.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: In June, the Taoiseach stated he would carry out such an examination.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: There was no controversy surrounding the strategic communications unit in June.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Prime Minister Rajoy recently. [48168/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the latest British-Irish Council meeting. [49072/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, the group includes questions on the British-Irish Council meeting, engagement with the British Prime Minister and engagement with the Prime Minister of Spain. It is very difficult to take all those together. I do not know what logic possessed someone to group them.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is difficult to take three separate questions in one follow-up question. On the British-Irish Council and the division between Governments on core objectives, the mounting evidence is that we are in the middle of an unprecedented crisis. Over the past week, it has become absolutely clear that there is no effective working relationship between the two Governments. The extent to which...

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: About two years ago, after the general election of February 2016 there were many talks about different policy issues. The Independents were talking with various parties and we met with the officials in the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten's Department, to discuss the roll-out of broadband. That followed a general election in which Fine Gael made...