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Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: I feel the civic forum went well. The participation of stakeholders in business and farming and the raising of workers' issues, trade unions and so on was quite effective. However, if it is to be a true dialogue, it must continue and we must get down to specifics with the various sectors that are represented. The potential impact on the academic and research communities is, for example, a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: Not December.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he has been in contact with the Northern Ireland First Minister since the civic forum on Brexit was held on 2 November 2016. [33804/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: I accept that Sinn Féin has had a strong view for a long time on abstentionism at Westminster. It is, however, a very curious form of abstentionism because its members have never abstained from taking salaries or expenses at Westminster, or the Saxon shilling. They take the money and run, or they do not actually go over at all but still take the money? I read that a couple of million...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: Equally - I believe it is true - it is extraordinary hypocrisy. On the one hand, they are abstaining for the optics that nobody-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: We dealt with the issue of abstentionism in 1927 in the second election.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: I believe the decision of the DUP to abstain from being represented at the forum was also a mistake.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: I also believe the tone at the DUP conference was not constructive. To describe anybody scared of the impact of the Brexit vote as "remoaners" was dismissive. It showed a basic refusal to engage with the realities. If one listened to people at the forum, they were very worried. They were from the third level sector, the academic sector, businesses and the farming community in the context...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: I think we all agree that it was a good idea.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Interdepartmental Meetings (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: 58. To ask the Taoiseach the way his Department is interacting with the EU unit in the Department of Foreign Affairs on a weekly basis. [33239/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Recruitment (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: 59. To ask the Taoiseach if the staffing in Government information services has increased since July 2016. [33240/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: 60. To ask the Taoiseach the section in his Department responsible for organising the civic forum on Brexit; and the number of civil servants and non-established civil servants employed in this section. [33241/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: 61. To ask the Taoiseach if the overall staff numbers in his Department have remained stagnant since 2015; the number of staff who have retired or been transferred, in tabular form; and if they were replaced. [33242/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: 62. To ask the Taoiseach the reason he is against appointing a Brexit Minister; the way in which he came to this decision; the rationale used; and if he sought advice from his officials. [33243/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: 63. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met the new British ambassador. [33244/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: 64. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met or written to the Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, recently. [33246/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: 65. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to have any bilaterals at the North-South Ministerial Council meeting planned for 8 November 2016. [33247/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: British-Irish Council (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: 66. To ask the Taoiseach the issues he plans to discuss at the November British-Irish Council. [33238/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: 72. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education last met. [33057/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Seanad Reform (8 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: 73. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the inter-party group being set up to review Seanad Éireann reform. [33058/16]