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- Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It was in 1985, 1986, 1987.
- 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...
- 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: 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: 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): 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.
- 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...
- Order of Business (24 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Ballyhale Shamrocks.
- European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Last week's summit involved no significant breakthrough on any of the major issues facing the European Union. While there are very important policies being rolled out or discussed at the moment, they were not on the agenda, rendering the summit itself more of a sideshow than a main event. A defining feature of the last four years has been the Government's non-stop effort to spin everything...
- European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Clearly, the decision to seek room for an additional €1.5 billion is the first move towards the spring statement and is intended to allow the announcement of as many initiatives as possible. The European semester process that the Taoiseach signed off on last week is designed to give transparency and certainty to policy. Due to the Taoiseach's approach, though, we are getting...
- 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]