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Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: About two years ago, after the general election of February 2016 there were many talks about different policy issues. The Independents were talking with various parties and we met with the officials in the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten's Department, to discuss the roll-out of broadband. That followed a general election in which Fine Gael made...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Prime Minister Rajoy recently. [48168/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the latest British-Irish Council meeting. [49072/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, the group includes questions on the British-Irish Council meeting, engagement with the British Prime Minister and engagement with the Prime Minister of Spain. It is very difficult to take all those together. I do not know what logic possessed someone to group them.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is difficult to take three separate questions in one follow-up question. On the British-Irish Council and the division between Governments on core objectives, the mounting evidence is that we are in the middle of an unprecedented crisis. Over the past week, it has become absolutely clear that there is no effective working relationship between the two Governments. The extent to which...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staffing vacancies in his Department. [47899/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the number of advertisements for staff recruitment his Department has. [49417/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. In June last, he informed the House that he intended to study staffing and roles in the Department before taking decisions about priorities. Will he indicate what happened to that process? When we discussed this topic last week, the Taoiseach indicated he did not know how many staff were assigned to specific policy areas. I hope it can be assumed that...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: Go away.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: In June, the Taoiseach stated he would carry out such an examination.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: There was no controversy surrounding the strategic communications unit in June.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Recruitment (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: No.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Contracts Data (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 97. To ask the Taoiseach the external contracts his Department has. [49418/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: EU Summits (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 106. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the EU summit on 17 November 2017; the issues that were discussed. [49553/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: EU Summits (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 107. To ask the Taoiseach if there was discussion at the EU summit on the roadmap relating to the issues affecting the Border here in view of the fact that Northern Ireland is leaving the Single Market and the customs union. [49554/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: EU Summits (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 108. To ask the Taoiseach if he had bilateral meetings at the EU summit meeting on 17 November 2017; the leaders he met; and the issues that were discussed. [49555/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 109. To ask the Taoiseach if funding was allocated from other Departments to fund the strategic communications unit; and the amounts his Department received from each Department. [49556/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 110. To ask the Taoiseach the details of the tender for the research and insight survey which was issued by the strategic communications unit that drafted same; the changes that were made to same subsequently; and the reason these were made. [49557/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Schemes (22 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the Department of the Taoiseach's strategy statement and its commitment to meet the demographic challenges in higher education. [49414/17]