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Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: Like universal health insurance five years ago.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Dáil sat for only five days in September and is due to sit for ten days in October. On yesterday's Order of Business, the Taoiseach listed a raft of legislation that is required. Maybe he was contemplating a run to the country in November, and hence the diary might have been cleared.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: Of course. This relates to the order of the House. Will the Taoiseach allow time for a debate on the report on paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland? I accept the report of the PSNI and MI5. I am not clear whether Sinn Féin has accepted it or whether there is complete denial.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy's organisation would know much more about MI5 than I would. Many of his party members had a lot of collusion with them. I will take none of that nonsense.

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is important to have a debate to allow all political parties to put on the record their position on the report and the report of the Garda Commissioner. Within days of the budget, the Minister, Deputy Reilly, clarified that not all children will receive a second year of free preschool education as a result of budget 2016. Deputies will recall that the Minister, Deputy Howlin, had said he...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: I want to know when the child care (amendment) Bill will be brought before the House. It seems that we have to decode the budget statements of the Minister, Deputy Howlin, in order to get any clarity. My third point relates to the care of older people in community care. Five years ago, the programme for Government contained a clear commitment that "additional funding will be provided...

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: I have asked about legislation. There were social care plan reductions in 2014. Contrary to the commitment made in the programme for Government, additional funding has not been provided each year for older people's services. In fact, there have been reductions. When will the programme for Government be implemented?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (22 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: 183. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí allocated to each Garda Síochána Division and District in Cork City and County, as of 1 October 2015; the corresponding figures for October 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36818/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (22 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: 320. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government's plans to rebuild trust between the five political parties in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32849/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Commemorative Events (22 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: 323. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to commemorate 60th anniversary of Ireland's membership of the United Nations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33972/15]

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: Last February the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, confirmed "the Government is proposing a statutory framework which will introduce a rent certainty for up to four years". Throughout the year, month by month, the Minister, Deputy Kelly, is quoted as saying he will bring an end to rent instability, he will bring rent certainty, he will bring...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: He is talking about his colleagues, Fine Gael senior Ministers. As this goes on, we read all the headlines about "AK-47" versus "Buddha", in the form of the Minister for Finance, who is nodding silently and sagely.

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: Meanwhile, there are 1,500 children in emergency accommodation and Threshold states the number of homeless families will increase from 700 to 1,000 by Christmas. The indecision of the Government is creating further instability in the rental market, with landlords shoving up rents to get in ahead of whatever proposals emerge from the Cabinet. The National Economic and Social Council, NESC,...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach hopes they can conclude their discussions this week. We have had the budget and the situation is chaotic. What is going on with the two Ministers is chaotic. They had a good meeting yesterday and we are all supposed to breathe a sigh of relief, after all the leaks, counter leaks and antagonism of the past two months. This goes back to what happened in February. I asked the...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----and the Government's lack of cohesion, focus or a sense of purpose, or a policy on homelessness. All we get is the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government calling Fine Gaelers a load of cowards and, in turn, them calling him "Calamity Kelly". That is what we are getting in the media each week, yet families are coming to us to ask us to do something for them. They...

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Government continues with the pseudo warfare through the media in the absence of coherence or a single-minded or purposeful policy initiative. The budget was silent on this issue. The two Ministers, Deputies Michael Noonan and Brendan Howlin, were silent on this issue in their entire Budget Statements.

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: One of the most basic obligations of a state is to put a roof over people's heads. Will there be legislation before the end of this Dáil session and will the Taoiseach confirm whether the plan to link rent increases with inflation is dead in the water? Is that what is going to happen?

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: It has provided 2,000 units in four years. That is all it has provided.

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: In each and every way the Government has screwed people.

Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: We all get the impression, a Cheann Comhairle----