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Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: 17. To ask the Taoiseach the meetings he attended while in Strasbourg; and the issues that were discussed. [3443/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I find how the Taoiseach has articulated this to be extraordinary. He said that he spoke on his thoughts about how Europe should evolve and on the future of Europe. He said two or three times today that he did not share his speech to the European Parliament with any of his Cabinet colleagues. I must remind him that the constitutional framework under which he has his position is far...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: Before the Taoiseach comes in, I would not want to inadvertently mislead the House. The Taoiseach tendered for market research on that issue and we were told it would be published. He might check that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I am not saying that. The Taoiseach said it in the House.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I am not saying that. The Taoiseach knows what I am saying. I am talking about the policy on the future of Europe.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is extraordinary, from a policy perspective, that the Cabinet committee would not meet to discuss such a matter. The future of Europe is a very important issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: Surely the Taoiseach would accept that, and yet he goes off on a soliloquy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: No. Substance.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: I am more interested in substance than public relations.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach saying that the speech had no substance?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: No. It is more process.

Written Answers — Department of Health: First Aid Training (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: 338. To ask the Minister for Health if the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council is proposing to implement a ban on advertising first-aid training courses by self-employed instructors who are not registered as approved contractors even though they are registered with the council; his views on whether a distinction between permitting advertising by one provider and not permitting advertising by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (6 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the National Office for Suicide Prevention is no longer providing funding to an organisation (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the organisation has counselled more than 7,000 women and partners since 2011; if the National Office for Suicide Prevention will review this decision; and if he will make a statement on...

Death of former Ceann Comhairle: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: Ar mo shon féin agus ar son Pháirtí Fhianna Fáil, déanaim comhbhrón le muintir Séamus Pattison faoina bhás. Polaiteoir den scoth ab ea é. D'oibrigh sé go dian dícheallach le fada an lae. Fear macánta, cneasta ab ea é chomh maith. I extend genuine sympathies on my behalf and on behalf of the Fianna Fáil Party to the...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: The revelations by Martin Wall on Monday in The Irish Times, following the release of correspondence between the Government and the HSE through a freedom of information request, confirms what I have said for some time, that, in essence, there was a fundamental lack of transparency at the heart of the process for providing money for health in 2018. There is a clear attempt by the Government...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: There was no greater leaker of information than the Taoiseach during his time as a Cabinet Minister.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: It ill behoves him to be lecturing anybody about leaking or revealing all sorts of information from the Government.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: Could I equally say-----

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has made very serious allegations against the HSE.