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Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: -----but the analysis of the Health Service Executive, whose plan the Government approved in the knowledge that it was short €100 million for hospitals.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: That is my point. The Government is leaving the health service short.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Under this Government, the waiting time increased to 16 weeks.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: On No. 33, the Technological Universities Bill 2015, there has been enormous disquiet among members of institutes of technology throughout the country about the Bill. There is a very strong sense that their points of view have not been properly articulated, represented or reflected in the Bill, in particular the issue of the mandatory merger-----

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I know that, but I have a proposal on the Order of Business. The proposal in primary legislation, that in order to become a technological university there must be a mandatory merger of institutes of technology, has caused significant disquiet and opposition throughout the country. The issue has not been dealt with properly at a local level. The Bill should be deferred until after the...

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I am asking the Taoiseach in all seriousness, having listened to the people involved, if we would defer passage of this Bill until after the general election.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: It was to make it mandatory.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I have no issue with technological universities. It is the mandatory merger I am raising.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I have two issues.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I know but there are 30 minutes.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I had intended to raise two points, which I normally get a chance to do. This could be my last day here, a Cheann Comhairle, in terms of this Dáil.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: That is a good cue for me to put the question to the Taoiseach. Will he confirm that he will be coming into the House on Tuesday to dissolve the Dáil and go to Áras an Uachtaráin to commence the general election? He might be in a position to confirm that. A Cheann Comhairle, I want the record of the House corrected because last night the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, spoke...

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: These are not new social housing units, be it transfers from rent allowance-----

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: -----to the housing assistance payment and so on.

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Yes, but it is playing with language. To be honest-----

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: People are fed up with this misuse and abuse of language in terms of trying to camouflage Government achievements when we all know that housing and homelessness-----

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: The position in terms of housing and homelessness-----

Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: The record needs to be corrected, and I ask that it be corrected.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: 69. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his officials, staff or advisers are informed on a regular basis of pending job announcements by the Industrial Development Agency Ireland and Enterprise Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3453/16]