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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: I object to Question No. 7, which asks the Taoiseach if he met the Scottish First Minister recently, being lumped with questions relating to Northern Ireland and relations within Northern Ireland between Britain and Ireland. The idea that questions about Scotland should be grouped with questions pertaining to Northern Ireland is absurd and whoever prepared that grouping should reflect on the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: He said he was not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken or met the Scottish First Minister, Mr. Alex Salmond MSP recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35200/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the lack of progress in the implementation or acceptance of the Haass report; if his concerns are shared by Prime Minister Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35632/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to or met the First Minister or Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland to discuss the Haass report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35634/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken or met Prime Minister Cameron in relation to the North recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35659/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 14. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding his September meeting with the First Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36512/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 15. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the resignation of Mr. Alex Salmond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36513/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the new round of talks on Northern Ireland with Prime Minister Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37622/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when he last visited Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37623/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the requests for a referendum on a united Ireland with the First Minister or Deputy First Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37651/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the requests for a referendum on a united Ireland with Prime Minister Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37652/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet committee on health met recently. [35594/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet committee on health has met since 2011. [35601/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. The frequency with which the Cabinet committee on health meets is instructive in itself. For three and a half years, every time the Taoiseach was asked a question in this Chamber about the health service, he replied that everything was going fine and getting better. Waiting lists were disappearing, treatment was getting better and reforms were on the...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: The general election has not happened yet.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Welcome back, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: I love the Taoiseach's sense of the English language. When a former Minister of State says something is an unmitigated disaster and abject failure and uses phrases such as "intense dislike of the whole process" and states people feel angry and intimidated, the Taoiseach says yes, it had teething problems. These are not teething problems. There is utter confusion about health. People with...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: This is excessive by any stretch of the imagination on a particular type of family.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Deputy O'Dowd correctly pointed to the unemployed and low-paid workers. The household benefits package does not cover any of these. The charges are excessive and he is correct in his analysis. He stated a poverty analysis was done in the Department but we have not seen it.