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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (24 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: 112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the events he attended for the twentieth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement; if he attended meetings surrounding same; and the status of the talks to reconvene the Northern Ireland Assembly. [16492/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (24 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: 113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the recent statement regarding the Loyalist Declaration of Transformation that was made recently. [16493/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic and Monetary Union (24 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the discussions at EU level regarding the European Monetary Fund; and his views regarding Chancellor Merkel's comments on same. [17683/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: National Reform Programme (24 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: 575. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the role her Department has in outlining progress on social inclusion under the National Reform Programme 2017. [17684/18]

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: St. Gabriel's special school in Bishopstown, County Cork, provides education for 43 special needs children with very severe and profound diagnoses of autism. That includes intellectual disability with autism, probably the most severe and profound condition that is catered for in the education system. These are children who should be our number one priority, but they are being neglected by...

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: We put our priorities into the confidence and supply agreement. The reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio would not have occurred if it had not been provided for in the confidence and supply agreement. Fine Gael resisted the reduction, just as it resisted the National Treatment Purchase Fund.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: Likewise, the Fine Gael Party resisted postgraduate grants which we put into the confidence and supply agreement. The same applied to ex quota career guidance counsellors. There would have been no movement on career guidance counselling if I had not insisted that, despite Fine Gael objections, it be included in the confidence and supply agreement. I am not interested in a tit-for-tat...

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: This is a simple and valid point, which the Government acknowledged three years ago in its programme for Government but which it has not implemented.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: What does the Taoiseach say?

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is completely out of touch.

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: I refer to the commitment to child protection in the programme for Government. Anyone who watched "Prime Time" last night could only have been sickened and appalled by what was allowed to happen in that County Galway foster home. We have become almost numb to the repetition of such cases; the case of Grace last year was mentioned earlier. The Galway case happened relatively recently....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C, European Union, including Brexit, last met. [17679/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: Before I put my specific question, I want to point out that it is now the Taoiseach's customary practice to completely ignore difficult questions by using up all of his time to answer less challenging ones. Yesterday, I asked very direct and relevant questions on exaggerated claims for the strategic communications unit and the admission of the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, my views on the Mahon tribunal are very well known. I am not so sure whether that is the case regarding the Taoiseach's views on it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, I asked the Taoiseach about whether the Government had completed a study as to what might happen if the UK decided to stay in the customs union and outside the Single Market. It is a very simple question. If he had concentrated on the questions I had asked, I might have got some specific answers.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is very simple.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: In the event that the British Government reversed its decision and agreed to remain in the customs union, has the Government completed any study as to what the implications are for us of it being in the customs union and outside the Single Market?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: No. It does not cover it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: We need a different attitude from the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: The work carried out by staff at the Department of the Taoiseach is always excellent and ensures they are dignified and focused on unifying elements, such as the institution of the Presidency and of course the Army, which is now, and always has been, the only legitimate Óglaigh na hÉireann. However, it is a great pity the Taoiseach chose to be so highly partisan last week at his...