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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (17 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: 204. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on Ireland's corporation tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35263/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (17 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: 408. To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the Health Service Executive in the context of its 2016 service plan, and in the context of long waiting lists for essential therapy services for children with special needs, and the need to reduce waiting times, to provide a fund for the outsourcing of such services in order that they can be accessed. [40365/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (17 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: 485. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made contact with the President of Turkey, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40026/15]

Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the Supplementary Estimates.

Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy Howlin, told Deputy Kelleher in a parliamentary question that the published forecast outturn for 2015 gross current health expenditure includes provision for a Supplementary Estimate of €600 million. There is a lack of clarity about the final figure in a reply on 4 November and the Minister said the final figure would need to reflect the latest view of HSE...

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----is that this was all a big surprise to them last Thursday-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----when the judge formally wrote to them.

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: We are fed up. We had it with the Fennelly inquiry, and we are fed up with not getting straight answers on Leaders' Questions at the beginning of a process.

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: There is all this obstruction and obfuscation going on time and again.

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: This House is being dismissed on an ongoing basis by that type of obfuscation and it is not good enough. I said at the outset I want the simple truth. When did the Department of Finance know?

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach this yesterday and he could not tell me and he refused to tell me.

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach would not tell me yesterday.

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I have to come in again today to ask him and, of course, he then says it knew but there were Chinese walls and they cannot even dare talk about it.

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: The claiming of privilege by the Department of Finance is not-----

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is answering questions he has not been asked and this is his classic trick. He answers questions he was never asked.

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: No.

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: Yes, but the Taoiseach could not tell me yesterday.

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: Waiving privilege is not breaking the law.

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday, I asked the Taoiseach a number of questions about the inquiry into the sale of Siteserv and other State-owned assets by IBRC. He did not answer the very basic question I put to him, namely, why the Department of Finance refused to waive its rights regarding the documents it sent to the commission of investigation. I asked the Taoiseach if it was his position that no officials in...

Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: Incredibly, it was also originally asked by the Minister for Finance to lead the investigation. Is the Taoiseach not now thoroughly embarrassed by the decision to ask it to investigate, given that it has emerged as the main obstacle in the progression of the investigation and has claimed that the public interest does not override the necessity of the utilisation of these documents by the...