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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: I would make the point that my position has always been very clear in terms of commissions of investigation and tribunals. The principle of innocent until proven guilty is an important one that we cannot jettison too easily in the House. It also affects future commissions. For example, we could have a commission of investigation into Project Eagle. Does that mean that the directors or the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Things are particularly intense at the moment so people will bring up different issues. I accept that there are challenges. The Policing Authority was established to depoliticise the-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: -----appointments but also the administration of justice and policing, so to a certain extent politicians are contradicting themselves. If there is a call to be made, it should be left to the Policing Authority to determine the issue pertaining to the Commissioner. The Policing Authority has already made a comment, which some Deputies have pointed out is perhaps of a qualified nature in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: They were qualified because there was a deliberate political attempt made to suggest we were protecting somebody, which we are not. Does Deputy Howlin understand? The issue was the principle that one is innocent until found guilty.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: That is the principle I would have always observed in the conduct of public affairs-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: -----and particularly in the context of commissions of investigation because what could quickly follow is that when future ones are established, before we even have an investigation, everybody in a position of authority would have to step aside if that precedent is established. That is the point I am making in the calmer environment of this Question Time but I put it to the Taoiseach that it...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Finally, the Garda Inspectorate is that international overview body. I know the members of the Independent Alliance have to find some way out of whatever but we have to give up that kind of politics. It is the idea that they need to have a hook to hang or whatever acquiescence so therefore someone magics up an international review. We have already had that. It is ongoing and it is very...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to President Juncker regarding Brexit. [8461/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach his views on future reform of the EU. [8775/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any communication he has had with the Italian Prime Minister regarding the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. [9997/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meetings in Brussels on 23 February 2017 with various EU leaders and with President Juncker; the issues that were discussed; and the responses that were made. [10420/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on all of the meetings he attended in Brussels on 23 February 2017. [10424/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The three of us could ask our questions collectively.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Minister for Finance appears to have given a very aggressive statement at a private dinner, and I note he often seems to be more aggressive in private than in public, concerning the Commission's agenda on corporation tax. The report states he said the Commission would undermine agreed OECD anti-evasion rules and was failing to keep to previous agreements respecting tax sovereignty. Did...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: You collapsed the institutions in the North.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 120. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she or her officials have recently reviewed a case (details supplied); the circumstances that led to the person's death by a person that was repeatedly on bail and that had numerous convictions involving drugs and alcohol; if she has discussed this with the Taoiseach, who has met the family recently; if the Government is considering a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Commissions of Investigation (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 218. To ask the Minister for Finance if his officials are working on the terms of reference for a commission of inquiry into Project Eagle, which is under the remit of his Department. [7053/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the severe shortage of school places within specific speech and language units in primary schools in County Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10069/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there has been a failure to build a new school or school extension for a school (details supplied) despite a ten-year commitment by his Department to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10143/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the severe shortage of school places for children with autism and complex needs in Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10144/17]