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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: 94. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Economy, Trade and Jobs last met and will next meet. [16404/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Correspondence (4 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: 151. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received contact from a person (details supplied); and if so, her response to same. [16628/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Shortages (4 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: 294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the programme for Government commitment in respect of ensuring an ambitious and implementable plan to identify and address skills gaps, ICT and STEM needs. [12051/17]

Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: Parents of children with special needs simply face too many barriers and obstacles to accessing services, including school placements, respite, proper and timely assessments, and basic equipment and aids to help their children get through the daily tasks of life. For example, the number of children who are waiting for appropriate occupational therapy assessment is extraordinary....

Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that it simply is not working. I refer to the case of a young child of two and a half years who needs an assessment application. The child attended in June 2016 and the family were told it would be dealt with on 23 September. They were then told in November by an assessment officer that there was a five month delay and that she was processing number 482. This child was...

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: Page 143 of the programme for Government sets out a commitment to "continue to play an active role at the European Union Foreign Affairs Council, the OSCE and through the UN, in seeking diplomatic resolutions to crises and conflict, with particular reference to Syria, Iraq, Libya, and the Ukraine". Everybody will have been absolutely appalled and horrified by yesterday's barbaric attack on...

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: It was promised.

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: Can somebody clarify the difference between a tender and a mini-tender?

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is true.

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: The panel rights are very restrictive.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: The fundamental issue is what is the function or role of the Cabinet committee on justice reform. It is clear that all reform efforts up to now have failed and the Garda Inspectorate reforms have not been implemented. I put it to the Taoiseach that it is extraordinary given the revelations about the latest debacle of 146,000 being wrongly summonsed to court, 14,700 being wrongly convicted...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: Is that not extraordinary?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is extraordinary.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (5 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken or written to the British Prime Minister, Ms Theresa May, since she wrote the letter to President Tusk on 29 March 2017 instigating Article 50; the details of the proposed statement he will make at the next EU Council following this instigation; and his main requests and concerns in this regard. [16400/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (5 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: I have two questions in this group. We spent some time on this yesterday and we had a debate on Brexit. Will the Taoiseach elaborate on a question I asked? Will he seek an explicit reference to the continued EU citizenship of Northern Ireland residents post-2019 in the Union's negotiation instructions? This has implications far beyond what would happen if there was reunification. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (5 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy cannot say "rightly".

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply, but is there a case for a review of the existence of these committees? It was revealed that the justice reform committee had not met since March, but the extraordinary debacle concerning the drink driving tests and the undermining of the criminal justice system via 146,000 people being wrongfully summonsed to court happened under that committee's watch...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: Will it affect the tender?

Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: The second Fennelly report into the telephone recordings at Garda stations has been published. It outlines clearly that these recordings were unlawful, but it must also be said that the consequences of such unlawfulness were very significantly overestimated at the time by the Attorney General. I recall the meeting about this issue to which the Taoiseach summoned Deputy Adams and me....

Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach avoided answering the key questions I put to him. He is, perhaps, the only person who has that view on the removal of the former Garda Commissioner. Irrespective of one's views on the former Commissioner or whether one was for or against him, the bottom line is that on this issue he did everything appropriately. However, the Taoiseach sent the Secretary General out to his...