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- Order of Business (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Why are the lists in respect of children getting longer? Can the Taoiseach outline the Government's intention to get to grips with this issue?
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: It was published yesterday.
- Public Health (Availability of Defibrillators) Bill 2018: First Stage (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: That means the party.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff within his Department who have decided to return to work after their official retirement date. [6005/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: In 2016 the then Taoiseach stated that a staffing audit was being carried out in the Department of the Taoiseach. This was in response to questions from me about how the Department was going to undertake a range of challenges, including dealing with Brexit, the ongoing instability in the Northern institutions and the capital plan, which was due to go before a Cabinet committee at that time....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: How many?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: I thought it was meant to be five initially.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach have any idea what goes on in there?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The unit was the Taoiseach's idea. The Taoiseach appointed Mr. Concannon.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The unit now has 15 permanent staff. That is interesting.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach imagines?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Come on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: May I ask a brief supplementary question?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach think it is acceptable that there is more staff in the strategic communications unit than in the social policy division? Does that not say it all? Social policy was a very strong part of the Department of the Taoiseach in terms of social partnership but also in context of the RAPID programme areas and facilitating a cross-cutting role for Government with regard to areas...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is quite striking that strategic communications, which is very new and which is now embedded within the Department, is the one initiative the Taoiseach has taken and that it trumps all others in terms of staffing and expertise recruited. Given the enormity of Brexit, it is striking that priority is being give to communications above and beyond anything else. I have seen some of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The matter went to an oral planning hearing in the region of six months ago. Site selection and other matters have all been taken care of. Likewise, a dental hospital was mentioned that has nothing to do with the Government. The relevant university hospital got money from the European Investment Bank. People will not be impressed by the idea that we use taxpayers' money to advertise...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Does that mean that Deputy Ross gets a fair shot?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: It was announced by the previous president of University College Cork, UCC. This is extraordinary.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: There are six projects in that video that have been announced already.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: In fairness it is the Minister in the centre, not the citizens.