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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: All of us live in a multicultural society.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy has been talking to us.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Cases (16 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 48. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the matters outstanding in a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16415/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Independent Review Mechanism (16 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 52. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the panel of barristers she appointed in 2014; when they will finish reviewing the cases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16479/16]

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: On my behalf and that of my party, I wish to express solidarity and sympathy with the family, community and political colleagues of Ms Jo Cox, MP. The murder of a public representative in a democracy is a very rare and shocking thing. On behalf of my party-----

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I did not realise that. That had not been communicated to me. Maybe we could work out arrangements for situations like this in the future. I appreciate that, a Cheann Comhairle. I raise with the Taoiseach the anger, anxiety and great surprise at how the statutory instrument introduced by former Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, last...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach say that the hot potato has been handed to the Minister for communications, climate change and natural resources, Deputy Naughten?

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: That is a surprise.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I thought that the Minister for housing, planning and local government had been handling this proactively for the past week or two weeks but the Taoiseach slipped it in there that it is now the responsibility of the Minister for communications, climate change and natural resources.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The former Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Kelly, was adamant that there would be a reduction for 87% of households. The Minister, Deputy Coveney, has not commented on that one way or the other. The bin companies are saying it is a mathematical impossibility. The Taoiseach was in the previous Government with Deputy Kelly. Surely they discussed it and...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach rehearse that?

Order of Business (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: We might need time for reflection and have statements later.

Death of Jo Cox, MP: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: On my behalf and on behalf of my party, I wish to express our deepest sympathies to the family, community and political colleagues of Jo Cox, MP. The murder of a public representative in a democracy is, thankfully, a very rare and shocking event. It is extremely important that we condemn what has happened, but also reflect on it. Quite clearly, the British Labour Party has lost a rising...

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to increase each year funding for home care packages and home helps. Some weeks ago, I brought to the attention of the Taoiseach that there appears to be a cap in operation on home help hours nationwide, about which he seemed unaware at the time. Since then, answers have been received on some parliamentary questions tabled that...

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: That was Deputy Ó Cuív.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: That is below the belt.

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: That was our commitment to rural Ireland.

Ceisteanna - Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order - I know that there are new Standing Orders - some questions were sent for written answer and therefore transferred out. Under new Standing Orders, each leader is entitled to three oral questions, and it was understood that no Member may put down more than three questions to the Taoiseach for oral answer on any one day. I submitted at least three questions. Two were...

Ceisteanna - Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The two questions of mine that were transferred out related to the Taoiseach's letter to the President of the European Commission. If the Taoiseach writes to the President of the European Commission, the subject matter of that letter should be allowed as a question, but they were transferred out.

Ceisteanna - Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: It was transferred from the Department of the Taoiseach to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.