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Order of Business (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday, over 100 repossession cases were scheduled for the Circuit Court in Castlebar. Throughout the country there has been an increasing number of such cases in different courts. Given that Castlebar is the Taoiseach's own home town, will he accept at long last that the number of repossession cases is out of hand? It is indicative that the Government's response to the mortgage crisis...

Order of Business (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: I know. I am coming to the Bill. There were approximately 600 beatings in the North in recent years. I wish to ask three questions. First, when can we expect the criminal justice Bill to be published? Second, has this issue been discussed at any stage at the North-South ministerial meetings? Third, will the Taoiseach allow time in the House to discuss the content of the RTE programme...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: These questions were tabled approximately five months ago. The Ceann Comhairle noted the long time lag between tabling and discussing them. However, the Taoiseach has reduced by half the number of times he must deal with questions. Before his time, questions to the Taoiseach were taken twice a week. Whenever the Taoiseach misses a session because he happens to be missing on a Tuesday, as...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The system is highly restrictive, including in respect of the questions we can ask the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: To cut back.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is the Department responsible for cutting medical cards. Medical card probity?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the Asia-Europe meeting he attended in October 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46769/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: In his supplementary reply to me the Taoiseach said the Cabinet sub-committee on social policy had met on 23 February, but he subsequently informed me that the sub-committee had been merged with the Cabinet sub-committee on public service reform. Therefore, the questions predate the merger and the Taoiseach should have spoken about the new merged entity in his response. This is important...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: On the social impact.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It always used to happen.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social policy last met. [46771/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is approximately five months since these questions were originally tabled. It would be useful, therefore, if the Taoiseach could indicate the number of occasions on which the Cabinet committee on social policy met during the past 12 months and when it last met prior to the tabling of these questions. Questions to the Taoiseach only take place once a week now as a result of a decision...

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: There was a time Eric, it was back in 1985 I think-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It was in 1985, 1986, 1987.

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The language used by the Taoiseach goes to the core of the problem. He has said they are "sitting down and working it out." Working what out?

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: I accept the need for fair procedure and due process but the idea now seems to be emerging that, behind the scenes, the two bodies are going to sit down and work it out. Work what out? The job of HIQA is to investigate and come to conclusions. These conclusions may be unpalatable to the HSE, but their full extent and range should not be up for grabs or "sorted out" behind the scenes. Are...

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It has not been put to it.

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: With respect, the Taoiseach should change his terminology. He is playing with words. It suggests the board is against the investigation.

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: What the Taoiseach is saying is very worrying.

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: We do not know that; we do not know anything about it.