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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Mergers (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: 1524. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he and his Department agree that merging Cork City and County Councils will actually benefit its citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32312/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Mergers (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: 1525. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the process he went through before he endorsed the report recommending the merger of Cork City and County Councils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32313/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Environmental Impact Statements (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: 1592. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will publish the environmental impact statement in respect of the Bloomfield interchange-N28 area affecting Maryborough Heights, Douglas, County Cork, which was due for publication in quarter 1 of 2015; the reason for the delay in providing this report to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30643/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Noise Pollution (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: 1593. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action the National Roads Authority has taken in relation to the noise levels to which the residents of Maryborough Heights, Douglas, County Cork are subjected enduring from the Bloomfield interchange-N28 area, since it monitored the noise levels in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30644/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Noise Pollution (22 Sep 2015)

Micheál Martin: 1594. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm that noise monitoring carried out in 2014 in relation to the Bloomfield interchange-N28 area affecting residents of Maryborough Heights, Douglas, County Cork showed noise levels in excess of European Union accepted levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30645/15]

Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: Markievicz was the first president of Fianna Fáil. The Deputy is misappropriating her yet again.

Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: Of course, I would not know; only the Deputy knows.

Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: Ask Scapaticci and he might tell the Deputy what republicanism is.

Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: Does he want us to be subservient to his position?

Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: Everything is by consensus in the Sinn Féin narrative. We will not allow Deputy Gerry Adams to rewrite history.

Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: The truth hurts the Deputy.

Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: Ask the Quinn family about it.

Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: Tóg go bog é. Ar aghaidh leat.

Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: Calling on people to vote by religion and get one over on the other side is sectarianism pure and simple, and Sinn Féin should stop trying to find excuses for it. The failure of political leadership to assist properly in the fight against sectarianism and to promote a genuine spirit of equality was demonstrated in Deputy Adams’s disgraceful comments last year when he talked about...

Northern Ireland: Statements (15 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: I believe this debate is too short. Originally the debate was only going to provide for five minutes for spokespeople and I gather we had to make representations to get a longer debate. Not only is the debate too short but squeezing it into a packed agenda at the end of the parliamentary term is unsatisfactory. Unfortunately, in many ways it illustrates the approach the Government has...

Events at Ballymurphy in 1971 and Legacy Issues: Motion (15 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: Ar son Fhianna Fáil agus ar mo shon féin ba mhaith liom comhbhrón a dhéanamh le clanna na ndaoine a fuair bás in iarthar Bhéal Feirste 44 bliain ó shin. Níl aon amhras ach gur dúnmharú uafásach a bhí ann. Is deacair a thuiscint cén fáth nach bhfuil Rialtas na Breataine sásta an dúnmharú seo a fhiosrú...

Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: I am actually a great fan of fiction.

Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: This brings me back to the programme for Government time and again. I want to clarify the position of one legislative proposal that the Government had put forward and promised.

Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: The programme for Government states that the legislative basis for universal health insurance will be established by the universal health insurance Act. Can the Taoiseach indicate when we can expect that universal health insurance Act? The programme also stated:In the first term of this Government, the foundations will be laid for the introduction of Universal Hospital Care Insurance:- The...

Order of Business (15 Jul 2015)

Micheál Martin: I did not call a vote.