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- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach a simple question and as usual he did everything but answer it. Could he explain why a person would get a €100 conservation grant even if that person does not pay his or her water bill?
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is a very simple question. It is a question that is connected to people who pay because they are wondering why one would bother paying under the regime the Government has established.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Under that regime, one gets €100 if one does not bother paying one's bill. The bottom line is that given the rate of compliance, as of now the Government is losing money as a result of the introduction of the water charge. That is a fact. The Government has been forced into U-turn after U-turn.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The net result is that following the introduction of the water tax, at the end of the year the Government will be down by between €35 million and €50 million. It is some feat to introduce a tax and lose money as a result of it. Only stubbornness and pig-headedness is driving the Government on in terms of trying to create the impression that all is well, but if the Taoiseach...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will not try to convince the Taoiseach that the situation is one of high farce right now in terms of how people look at the edifice that has been created and the extraordinarily farcical situation whereby if someone does not pay his or her bill, he or she will get a conservation grant.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the request for extra special needs assistants she and her Department have received from a special school (details supplied) in County Cork; the allocation the school has now received; if the school is satisfied with its allocation for 2015-2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29316/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she or her Department have received a request for a special needs assistant for a pupil (details supplied) who has many challenging behaviours, as well as autism, and who is attending a school in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29317/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the justification for allocating only two new special needs assistants for 12 children in a special school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29318/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of requests for the allocation of special needs assistant that were denied, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29319/15]
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: What about the sum of €230,000?
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: This is the point. It is a smart-alec response. Deal with the substance.
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed based on the same principle as the opposition to the previous proposal. This again represents a guillotining of a very important Bill, namely, the Children First Bill. The proposal is that Report and Final Stages shall be taken today, but again, there is a very short amount of time to deal with the amendments and the issue itself. Coming after the guillotining of No. 39 it...
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I wish to raise with the Taoiseach the fact that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, refused a request to increase health funding to meet the ongoing need of the Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, for approximately €1 billion. The Minister, Deputy Howlin, said the sum of €1 billion was a nice, round figure that the Minister for Health...
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: What about the quality of the Friday sittings?
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should stop, for God's sake. He has ignored them for four years. He should give us a break.
- Order of Business (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. We are again witnessing the unnecessary guillotining of debate on important Bills, in this case, the Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2014, on which essentially there will be about an hour's debate, followed by the Children First Bill 2014 on which there will also be about an hour's debate this evening. What we have been witnessing is the very bad handling of Dáil...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Is that being communicated to the British?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has answered 31 questions together, 16 of which are mine. Three and a half years ago he told the House that he and the British Prime Minister, Mr. Cameron, had agreed an urgent set of priorities for Northern Ireland, including deepening economic activity, reviewing institutions and tackling sectarianism. There have since been a number of meetings but no progress. In reality...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diaspora Policy (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach does it all the time; he should read his material.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diaspora Policy (14 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: These are people looking for work. They want to stay here.