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- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I want an answer to it. It does necessitate a statement. Under the Voluntary Health Insurance Acts of 1996 and 2008, the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, brought forward SI 613 of 2014, which gave today as the appointed date for VHI to make an application for authorisation by the Central Bank of Ireland. Is this happening or has the Minister authorised a new statutory instrument? When...
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order. I asked a basic question about when the legislation committed to by the Government in its statement that "we will bring to an end the unacceptable Executive practice where no record is kept of ministerial involvement with an issue and resulting decisions" will be introduced? Would the Taoiseach please answer that question?
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: This is my second week in a row asking this question and the Taoiseach waffles on about something else that I did not ask at all.
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I did not.
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I simply asked the Taoiseach when that legislation is coming in and why so many meetings were held with no minutes.
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach committed to legislation to "end the unacceptable Executive practice where no record was kept of ministerial involvement with an issue and resulting decisions".
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: "We will legislate for reform", it says here.
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach obviously got it out the wrong way today.
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The groups cannot devote more than 20% of their funds to these purposes. The Taoiseach undermined them and misled people. He does this all the time.
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is nasty stuff.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Debt Conference (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 266. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding holding a debt conference in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5473/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Meetings (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 267. To ask the Minister for Finance if he met the Governor of the Bank of England, Mr. Mark Carney, when he was in Dublin on 27 January 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5476/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Programme for Government Initiatives (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 396. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the commitment in the programme for Government to help homeowners in distress; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9971/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 615. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to explain the reason he and his Department came to the decision to allocate Leader programme funding on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12738/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 616. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the allocation under the Leader rural development programme for 2014 to 2020 to each county that he and his Department made; and the way it compares to the allocation in the previous Leader round of funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12739/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 619. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to explain the rationale of using and allocating funding to a sub-regional area; the extra areas that received funding under this category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12742/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 622. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a cost benefit analysis was carried out on the impact the new allocation of Leader funding will have in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12745/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 617. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the allocation of Leader funding to the County Cork region is 32.4% less than the previous round of funding; his views on the equitability of this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12740/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 618. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out the average of the national allocation of Leader programme funding that County Cork received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12741/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 620. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how the criteria of sub-regional areas were applied to the County Cork area given that the population of the Cork county area is twice the population of the Cork city area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12743/15]