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- Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The entity being investigated is selectively leaking what is going on.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not the only party to be wildly off the mark.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I wish to raise the issue of the unedifying spectacle of the HSE threatening legal injunctions against the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, in the context of an investigation into quality, patient safety and standards of service at the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise. The background to this is that, more than one year ago, the chief medical officer, Dr. Tony Holohan,...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: We need to be sensitive to the parents of babies who have died at the hospital and their absolute need for the full truth to emerge unhindered. I put it to the Taoiseach that this could be a defining moment for HIQA, its independence and its capacity to investigate without being emasculated, undermined or, to put it more bluntly, told to "shut up" or to pull its punches behind the scenes....
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Northern Ireland Issues (24 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 146. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, regarding the recent bombing in the North; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11111/15]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Northern Ireland Issues (24 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 147. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, in February 2015, regarding the Stormont House Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11112/15]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Risk Assessment (24 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 148. To ask the Taoiseach when his Department will publish the 2015 National Risk Assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11356/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Economic Policy (24 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 295. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he and his Department will be preparing for the new social dialogue announced recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11113/15]
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Do not tell Joan that.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Sorry?
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy has 16 more minutes. He should not become part of the Sinn Féin agenda of suppressing legitimate articulation of views and perspectives. Will the Minister clarify the matter and tell me when we can expect the education Bill?
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Finance did not promise it.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Given that the teachers' unions have not found favour with Dr. Travers' recent proposals relating to junior certificate reform, given the botched manner in which this was dealt with historically, particularly by the Minister's predecessor, Deputy Quinn, who in a very ham-fisted way ignored the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment's original recommendations on this issue, and given...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is why allegations of abuse have to be investigated - to show that children are not exposed to potential abuse. In terms of any information that is held by Sinn Féin or its associates, therefore, there is a legal obligation that this knowledge or information should be provided now to Tusla and to the Garda in order to protect children who could potentially be exposed to further...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----that, as we know, some commissions of inquiry have held their hearings in confidential settings and then produced comprehensive reports to shine a light on the practices, what happened and did not happen and who was complicit in the cover-up of grave allegations. The bottom line is that in 2002, which is not too long ago, all of this was deliberately, premeditatively kept from the Garda...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is just not credible, but in 2009 we learned that the leader of Sinn Féin, on his own admission, knew about this and did not refer it to the HSE or the Garda at the time.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is as plain, simple and straightforward as that, and no satisfactory response or explanation has come from the leader of Sinn Féin, and none will come because we are tired of the mantra of "Please come forward".
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: These people themselves know, so a statutory basis is the only way forward now in terms of trying to get to the bottom of this and getting the truth.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am sure the Minister will accept that since the 1990s this House has debated many scandals, allegations and issues surrounding sexual abuse, particularly of children and young people, and the rape of young people, which happened across the country in different contexts within the church from diocese to diocese, within sport, particularly in swimming, and within schools. There is an ongoing...