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Personal Explanation by Minister (9 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, is there any intention to take questions on this specific item?

Personal Explanation by Minister (9 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: This relates to a parliamentary question I tabled. The reply I got was comprehensively wrong and misleading in a fundamental way. The Minister has now corrected the factual aspect, but has left many unanswered questions regarding, for example, the period before March 2012 and the whole issue of discontinued freedom of information, whatever that was about. That is the first mechanism by...

Personal Explanation by Minister (9 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is the device being used by the Minister. Given the gravity of the issue - we are about to debate the establishment of a commission of inquiry - it is extraordinary that there would not be questions and answers on this issue, that the Minister would not volunteer to take questions on this issue, and that we would not get notice of this. In the past, people would have gone before...

Personal Explanation by Minister (9 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----and not just categoric but political presentation of the issues in a partisan way. We now learn that those were completely in error, yet there is to be no discussion of that. How did that happen? How was the Minister so wrongly advised? Is there any corporate memory of it? In the interest of the House, it is a very shoddy state of affairs that this is the mechanism by which this is...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Minister, Deputy Michael Noonan, for his earlier contribution. First, the issue of governance is included in the terms of reference in the form of specific issues but not at a macro level. I ask that the entire overall governance of IBRC be examined by this inquiry. When the Minister replies at the end of the debate, will he clarify that this will be the case? Second, I ask...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Eligibility (9 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: 245. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon, in relation to that person's application for a carer's allowance; the benefits that the person may be entitled to; her views on the financial difficulty of that person's situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22142/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (9 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: 691. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department is aware that funding is not available for a new cancer drug called TDM1, also known as Kadcyla; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21588/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (9 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: 939. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the findings of a new survey of guidance counsellors (details supplied) which found that 69% of respondents in the free education scheme reported a decrease in guidance hours in 2012-13 compared to 44% in the fee-charging sector and that the cuts to guidance counselling services are affecting students with the greatest need for...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (9 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: 1074. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of meetings he has attended since January 2015 at which the the increasing number of homeless persons was considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19223/15]

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: I raise with the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard Bruton, the ongoing debate around the commission of investigation into issues pertaining to IBRC and the need for absolute clarity in relation to the terms of reference the Government has proposed and guarantees that they cover key issues. The heart of this goes back to concerns raised by civil servants in the...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: I regret that, again, the Minister had to be politically partisan in his opening remarks. What he just stated in his opening remarks was exactly what the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, said during the Private Members' debate and in answer to a parliamentary question to me some time back. He had to come to the House and, humiliatingly, apologise. He also wrote to me to...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is unacceptable that it would be allowed to drag on over an indefinite timeframe and, as such, we need clarity and certainty in relation to it. Given what the Minister has said, it should be within the Government's capacity to give that certainty in writing before the close of the debate.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: Is a verbal agreement contractual?

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: Can that be written as an appendix to the terms of reference?

Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Paul Murphy should try submitting 19 parliamentary questions. He might be lucky.

Order of Business (10 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: Over the last two weeks, people have been genuinely taken aback by the situation pertaining to two 101 year old women who were kept on trolleys in accident and emergency departments for an extraordinary length of time. We have seen the figures for waiting lists getting much worse month by month. Our health system is in crisis, particularly in terms of information and data. The Minister for...

Order of Business (10 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: Will the Minister give me the date?

Order of Business (10 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: Is it ever going to happen?

Order of Business (10 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: He is out in the housing estates.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (10 Jun 2015)

Micheál Martin: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his officials are aware of a report on the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation by a solicitors firm (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22542/15]