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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (1 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: 177. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the electoral process for Seanad Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37323/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (1 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: 178. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that the criteria for selection of nominees to the Seanad are satisfactory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37324/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (1 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: 179. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied to allow the by-election for the vacancy in the Seanad to go ahead on 10 October 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37325/14]

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Government has had it for more than a year.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: I have previously raised with the Taoiseach on the Order of Business the issue of extreme obesity and the lack of funding available for surgery for those who are at high risk in this regard. As he is aware, funding stopped halfway through the year. It has now emerged that, instead of funding operations in St. Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin and University Hospital Galway, the HSE is...

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: These are specific double taxation agreements which do not relate to the broader debate about international and global taxation models. However, I asked before the summer recess for a comprehensive debate, because there seems to be a determined effort to undermine Ireland's ability to have an independent taxation regime which is fully in compliance with international tax law. We cannot sort...

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: Some Deputies tend to ignore that in any contribution they make on this subject. A total of 4,200 people have been working in Apple in Cork city since 1981, in good-quality jobs-----

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: Small businesses get a lot from the multinational companies in Ireland in terms of bioscience, life sciences, instrumentation and service provision. A raft of industries have grown as a result of that multinational investment. It is a bit more complex and subtle than it is sometimes presented in this House, and we need to be careful. The OECD is an important body but it does not have...

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----for the G20 countries. That is because some of them are strapped for cash now. It is not our fault that the United States has the tax regime it decided to have-----

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----and it does its deals-----

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----with China and it will do its deals with Japan and with Asia, just as many other countries will do.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: We may have to reform, but should we do so on our own, oblivious to the actual realities of the global economic model, whether we like it or not? There is much I dislike about globalisation - wage rates across the world, the absence of any conformity with health and safety requirements and the lack of any adherence to consumer rights. Let us introduce a dose of realism to this debate. I...

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: He was completely out of order. Let us be under no illusion that all the Prime Minister wants is our jobs. He wants the 166,000 jobs that are in this country to go to the United Kingdom. He wants Apple in the United Kingdom.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: The anti-inversion laws in the United States are motivated by British moves in recent times, such as the patent box, which the Commission is also investigating. The British Government needs to look at its own house before it starts lecturing Ireland. I hope the Taoiseach will give that message to Mr. Cameron in no uncertain terms. I have no difficulty-----

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: I oppose Deputy Higgins's proposition.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: I will allow this proposal on the basis that we have a comprehensive debate on the overall issue of the international tax regime, the global tax situation and our strategy in responding to the most recent OECD measures and the moves of the G20. We need to know the direction in which this matter is going and must adopt a cautious approach to it. The Commission has issued an opinion and there...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: I have tabled 11 questions in this group and it is unsatisfactory that I have to deal with them all now in a short space of time. We should do it thematically - Gaza, Palestine, Ukraine separately-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----and the debt issue separately. Whoever decided to group them should have at least divided them up in that way because this is totally unsatisfactory. First, in terms of the debt issue and the retrospective debt, for three and a half years the Taoiseach and the Government defined relief on banking debt as European agreement on retrospectively funding the debts that were effectively...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is because Sinn Féin has followed the same line in the European Parliament as it followed here-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----which is that it attacked the European Union and the United States, and it tried to draw an equivalence between the behaviour of the EU and the United States to Russia's behaviour.