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- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: We have been publishing policy papers on European reform for a long time - for years.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: That is because the issue is never discussed. We need a debate on the issue.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: There are no pre-Council statements. There is no real or genuine debate on the issue in the House.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: There are many commitments in the programme for Government in respect of political reform. One of the disappointments has been the lack of progress for many Opposition Bills going through the House and the abuse of the money message. At the beginning of the lifetime of this Dáil, Members were told that a reasonable approach would be taken in using the money message with regard to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: Various Governments brought that project through. I visited DIT recently and buildings have been constructed. It has the makings of a fine campus. It is being advertised, through the use of taxpayers' money, as though it was something completely new that Ireland will get in 2040. All the time, the project is rolling on. There is a very legitimate question to be asked. Why are civil...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----will have its own campaign shortly.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is bizarre, absurd and wrong.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy Ross, has had his way then.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said he is not sure how it came about that the nomination of the chairman - anyway, we will talk about that again.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: I know, but sometimes one is taken aback by the answer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: On an important point, the Taoiseach talks about allegations. He made an allegation about someone who is not a Member of this House last week. This is a very important point regarding Standing Orders. He has not withdrawn the allegation he made about Mr. Flaherty in the Dáil. He is the last man to be lecturing anyone about casting aspersions on people's characters. He repeated the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----again today when he said he has his own conspiracy theories. I am giving him an opportunity-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----to reflect on what he said today and last week about Mr. Flaherty and to withdraw those remarks.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach does not like criticism.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: I am happy enough.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: I note the entire Cabinet is decamping to UCC on Friday.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: I am now beginning to understand why the Taoiseach was seeking assistance from all parties in the House for a quorum, because clearly half of the Fine Gael Party will be on the UCC campus marketing the national development plan.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: Delivery is the key and more than 9,000 people are in emergency accommodation of whom 3,267 are children. This is the bottom line. When people come into our clinics in desperate situations looking for housing, they find it unbelievable that there are all these advertisements about 2040 and 2027. The Luas to Finglas is post-2027 but it is a great thing and the Government will even get a few...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: We need delivery. Rapid housing was promised when the then Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, announced it three years ago. In 2015, some 1,500 houses were to be delivered. There is a huge issue about delivery in 2019, 2020 and 2021 in hospitals, health services and housing. They are the key issues on which the Government needs to refocus.