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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Records (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Apologies.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: That was probably one of the biggest fibs of all time, because that has come and gone.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy should relax.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: It had nothing to do with the children's hospital but he needed a hook on which to hang the privatisation of the lottery. As a left-wing Deputy, he had to hang it on some type of hook.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: That was €1 billion. The Deputy knows what I am saying - the management of it was.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The other issue is that projects such as the Cork to Limerick motorway are on ice. It is major infrastructure. If we are to deal with the difference between Dublin and the west there must be infrastructure in the west. The third point is that this time last year, the Taoiseach dug a sod in Cork, allegedly to confirm that the events centre was starting. It was a very cynical political...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: I do, because nothing happened.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: He has just announced to the newspaper that we need another €10 million.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy has. It was in the Evening Echolast night.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Coveney had it advertised on the back of every bus in Cork before the election, which is not-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Coveney is very sensitive about it obviously.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Varadkar killed that project.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: That was not the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action will next meet. [5764/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Hold on.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is the first time I have seen someone answer a Taoiseach before he has replied and thanking him for his reply.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: In terms of infrastructure generally, it is clear that there is a broader issue here. The Government does not seem to have any imaginative or creative proposals to deal with the infrastructural bottlenecks and the necessary projects that will be required over the medium term. The previous capital plan was a five-year plan and in the first two years, very little happened because all of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The British White Paper on Brexit that was published last week contains no clear blueprint for EU-UK relations and includes a range of contradictory objectives. However, there is more detail in it than in anything published by our Government thus far in respect of Ireland-UK relations. In an article published yesterday on RTE's website concerning the status of Ireland in the Brexit...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Under the Act, proper procedures are meant to be in place in the Department of Defence to react to protected disclosures.

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Could the Taoiseach publish the procedures of the Department of Defence or could he give me a copy of them? Will he confirm that such procedures are involved?