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- Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach will be aware of the commitment in the programme for Government to ensure that at least 9,500 Permanent Defence Forces personnel and a full strength reserve is in place. Fianna Fáil has highlighted the poor pay and conditions in the Defence Forces, and it is coming home to roost as significant numbers are leaving the Defence Forces on a regular basis. Those leaving are...
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: Ordinary questions were taken in the past.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: They were at one time.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: We just want to make sure there is consistent accountability on the Government side.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: There is a lot of ducking and diving going on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: Last week direct questions were put to the Taoiseach about Brexit, but he avoided answering them beyond vague generalities. I want to ask him a very simple but important question which I asked last week. Has he proposed to the British Government or European Union partners that Northern Ireland receive special economic status following Brexit? He has said he will not propose any border...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: I did not hear that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: That is if they-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: It is not about us giving in but about the British coming to an arrangement with everybody else.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: The British might not do it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: They do not do party work.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, they do departmental work.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: One does not party politicise Government officials.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is missing the point. One does not party politicise Government officials. One cannot do that. The practise has been dispensed with.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Diplomatic Representation (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report his commitment to double the number of staff in Government agencies globally by 2025. [39662/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Diplomatic Representation (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the way the Government plans to double Ireland's global footprint. [41641/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Diplomatic Representation (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. It is clear from the reply that this commitment was one of the Taoiseach's soft August stories designed to give the appearance of activity without doing anything concrete. Since before the Brexit referendum, Fianna Fáil has been calling for a significant increase in overseas staff, both to overseas missions and to the enterprise agencies,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Diplomatic Representation (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: Can the Taoiseach give us a definition of doubling at some stage in this process?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Overseas Visits (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: When we discussed the visit of Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Trudeau, to Ireland the Taoiseach did not mention a return visit. Can we assume it was something that was organised relatively late for such meetings? Instead of a multiday visit, the focus this time was on existing trading companies and links rather than on opening new ones. Why was that the case? It is surprising, given the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Overseas Visits (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: I do not think the Taoiseach will be in a position to do that for quite some time.