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- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----and child-centred approach to special education is going out the window. The phrase "unnecessary labelling" is insulting to parents. One does actually need a definition-----
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----if one is on the autistic spectrum. That is not an unnecessary label. One does need to know that. A parent needs to know where the child is on a particular spectrum. If one has Down's syndrome, it is not an unnecessary label. It has implications in terms of education requirements and provision. The whole thing is stealthily endeavouring to undermine the edifice that has been built...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----from what his own Government is proposing in relation to these issues. I ask him to change it and to stop it.
- Order of Business (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The programme for Government contains many chapters. I ask the Taoiseach to indicate whether, even at this late stage, there will be any redrafting or updating of the programme for Government, in particular, whether the entire section dealing with universal health insurance will be formally deleted from the programme for Government and whether there will be a ceremony to announce formally...
- Order of Business (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: On a specific issue, delivering equity in education, the programme for Government states, "We will consider recommendations of the review of the DEIS programme and use it as platform for new initiatives to deliver better outcomes for students in disadvantaged areas." DEIS suffered cuts of 15% over two years ago. Those cuts have never been reversed, particularly for DEIS band 2 schools. In...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: First, I join others in wishing the Northern Ireland First Minister, Peter Robinson, the very best in his retirement. I dealt with him in my capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs and negotiated with him in the context of the devolution of justice and related matters over a three-year period. In many instances I found him straight up in negotiations, although he came from a difficult...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: No, I certainly did not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: In fact, if one watches all the interviews I gave, I am very clear about wanting the talks to succeed and wanting the institutions to survive.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not Sinn Féin's process, it is everybody's process. It belongs to the people of Ireland. A number of aspects of the agreement would concern people. The financial package does not quite add up and there is a bit of play going on in terms of changing six years to four years and taking money from one department to fund another department. In fact, in some respects, the package is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The issues with the UUP and the SDLP have not just started this summer. There has been a lack of inclusivity around how the Executive works. I would put that to the Taoiseach. Will he indicate to me whether any progress was made on the need to involve all parties on the Executive in a much more inclusive way in terms of the governance of Northern Ireland, particularly in terms of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: One cannot always expect the SDLP to cosy up to any deal the big two parties make, to the exclusion-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I did not advise them at all. I let the SDLP make up its own mind. I did not advise the SDLP at all because I would have had more respect for it in that it has its own processes and is in command of its own situation to make its own informed judgments, which is what it has done.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will indeed. The one big difference between this agreement and the Stormont House Agreement is that the issues around the past have essentially been parked in this latest iteration. I have always had the view that the British Government and Sinn Féin are probably the two main protagonists who never want full disclosure about the past, but I am concerned about why this agreement parks...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: We welcome it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is about the adequacy and the preparation that goes into the answering of questions. The bottom line is that the Taoiseach has never answered the question in respect of the forced resignation of the Garda Commissioner in this House. That is the point I am making to the Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: This should never have gone into the Fennelly commission's terms of reference because the Taoiseach should have answered the questions straight out. We only learned from the media that the Secretary General had been sent out the night before.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach never told us that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle, it has to do with the adequacy of questions. The final point I wish to put to the Taoiseach is-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is more of it. I asked the Taoiseach about it.