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- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 621. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he and his Department have received complaints from Leader companies regarding the funding that has been allocated to them; the way these complaints will be dealt with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12744/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 623. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has been informed that the new allocation of Leader funding by his Department will result in job losses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12746/15]
- Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Tomorrow morning thousands of workers from Dunnes Stores will go on strike across the country. They do not want to do this but they are being forced. This reflects a broader casualisation of the workforce, a regressive trend towards lower pay and less security of hours. The strike tomorrow is essentially about low-hour contracts that have become the norm in certain sectors of the economy....
- Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The reason I ask the Taoiseach to say he supports the Dunnes Stores workers unequivocally is because I genuinely believe a message must go out to the employer in this instance. As a former Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, I know all the usual processes and mechanisms. Dunnes Stores has refused to engage with the Labour Relations Commission or Labour Court, or to adopt its...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The company is making vast profits as well.
- Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Can the Taoiseach indicate when the Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No.2 ) Bill will be introduced? It is a Bill to provide any legislative changes required to deal with the bargaining rights of trade unions, and it is included in the programme for Government. If it was in place, it would assist the Dunnes Stores workers who will be on strike tomorrow. Can the Taoiseach confirm when the...
- Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: These are crucial issues and we need a fuller debate in the House on them, or at least some explanation of the content and substance of those remarks.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Investigation (2 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: 34. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the outstanding allegations of sexual abuse by members of the IRA, both in the Republic and in the North of Ireland; if this was discussed at Prime Ministerial level; if any specific actions will be taken, cross-Border or otherwise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12771/15]
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that for many families the most significant financial outlay is their monthly mortgage payment. It has a huge impact and can create enormous pressure in their lives. We have a situation where over 300,000 households are on standard variable rate mortgages which clearly are exorbitant and exerting enormous pressure on their capacity to sustain their lives...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is the Government's line when it suits it, but in November 2011 the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, made much of the fact that he had persuaded AIB to reduce its rates by 0.25% following a cut by the ECB. When it suited, the Government sought to claim credit for putting pressure on a bank to reduce its interest rates. In addition, the last meeting between the Governor of...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----namely, who is intervening on behalf of the average customers of the banks, particularly those which are owned by the State. It appears to the ordinary punter that no one is intervening. The Government is certainly not doing so. Hence the need for the latter and the Irish Economic Management Council to, at a very minimum, meet representatives from the banks and put that fundamental...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: I apologise for interrupting but did the Taoiseach state that AIB has passed on variable interest rate reductions to all its customers? It has not done so.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: It did not pass them on to those on the standard variable rate.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: What did AIB pass on?
- Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: AIB did not pass anything on. Perhaps the Taoiseach will correct the record.
- Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: In regard to the Minister for Justice and Equality setting up the independent panel of barristers, I understand every case must be gone through before anybody gets-----
- Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: We were promised it would be raised in the context of the Minister coming back to the House following the establishment of the review-----
- Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am looking for Government time to have this issue debated and I am entitled to do so on the Order of Business because we are getting queries on the cases we submitted to the Minister and because of the significant distress being caused to families. Page 5 of the programme for Government relates to health issues and outlines the pathway to universal health care and insurance. Universal...
- Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: What the Taoiseach is saying is that five years since the Government proposed this messure, it still does not have the costings.
- Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government still does not have costings for something it promised the people five years ago.