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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (28 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: 266. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the resignation of a person (details supplied) from the UN due to its failure to accept two ESCWA reports describing an apartheid regime being applied in Israel; if his attention has further been drawn to these reports; his views on these reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14999/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Dormant Accounts Fund Management (28 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: 300. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she expects to be in a position to allocate funding from dormant accounts to Foróige; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15037/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (28 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: 319. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the HSE providing home support to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14798/17]

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

Micheál Martin: Revert to the Business Committee.

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

Micheál Martin: Let us go, please.

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

Micheál Martin: We know well who groups them.

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

Micheál Martin: Keep going, Taoiseach.

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

Micheál Martin: We are wasting time.

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

Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his trip to the USA to commemorate St. Patrick's Day 2017; the bilaterals that were held; the issues that were discussed directly with President Trump; and if the Irish undocumented were discussed. [13176/17]

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

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach. In recent months, there has been a sense of some Deputies being almost relieved that Donald Trump is the US President because it allows them to revert to their default position of attacking the US for everything while ignoring the behaviour of other countries. Before November, I was clear about where I stood. We must manage the situation as it is. Ireland's...

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

Micheál Martin: What did Congress say about some of the issues that the Taoiseach raised, for example, the benefit that countries got from current trading arrangements? Were there indications of when the US would start reducing its corporate tax rates? What practical response did the Taoiseach get on the issue of undocumented immigrants? Mayor Marty Walsh stated his belief that a special deal could not be...

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

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach. I was in Brussels last week where I met seven Prime Ministers and four Commissioners as part of the ALDE group, when we had a particular meeting. Many people said to us that Ireland's approach to the Brexit negotiations is one where we have to move from talking about the problems to proposing solutions. I had meetings with officials as well. It is fair to say that...

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

Micheál Martin: I am talking about the level of officialdom.

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

Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he held any bilateral meetings with any EU leaders at the European Council meeting of 9 March 2017; and the issues that were discussed. [13175/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is accepted that, notwithstanding the very negative impacts of Brexit, one potential opportunity for Ireland was in the area of financial services, particularly relocation from the United Kingdom for companies which would wish to stay in the EU. I know the enterprise section of the programme for Government is very strong on the support of financial services. The Taoiseach will have noted...

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: I do not want to accuse the Taoiseach of being disingenuous but I believe he is being so in this case. He knows full well what I am saying. It is the application by the Government of an interpretation of the Louise O'Keeffe judgment. The invocation of the prior complaint mechanism has no moral status and, I would argue, no legal status. Only seven out of 360 cases have been settled via...

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: -----by the State.

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: I am not speaking about every item or accusation. I never said that and the Taoiseach knows it. Let us not introduce confusion or try to create a fog around this. It is very specific. I ask the Taoiseach and the Minister to engage with Dr. Conor O'Mahony in UCC, who has done an lot of work on this and has made submissions to Europe on it.

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: This is not complex, it is quite simple. What happened after the Louise O'Keeffe judgment, it seems to me, is the Government asked how the hell would it limit this and how would it prevent genuine people who have been abused and whose abusers have been convicted and limit the numbers. This is what is going on and it is scandalous. What gets me every now and again is that we had all the...

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: It was about the lack of proactive measures by the State to protect children in schools such as an inspectorial regime. This was the essence of the Louise O'Keeffe judgment. What is now going on is a scandal - the degree to which these victims have been left so high and dry. Many of them are in very difficult circumstances socially, financially and healthwise. It cries out for action and...