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Questions on Promised Legislation (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is simply not reconcilable that one can be the director general of the HSE and also serve on the board of a company whose chair is also the chair of an Irish hospital. I do not understand why the Taoiseach does not get that. The Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, made a grave error in facilitating Mr. O'Brien joining that board. I have no personal issue with Mr. O'Brien but the bottom...

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Government created the issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Media Mergers (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee at which communications and media mergers are discussed; and when it last met. [17973/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Media Mergers (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, the Taoiseach's reply does not pertain to Questions Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Media Mergers (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: After many days of controversy, the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, finally got around to admitting he should not have spoken to a lobbyist for a media company, Independent News & Media, INM, about a media merger it was promoting. He still claims that he did nothing wrong but admits that he should not have done it and said he would...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Media Mergers (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: That is the point.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Media Mergers (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: That was wrong.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the President of the European Council, Mr. Donald Tusk, since his speech on 18 April 2018 to the European Parliament on Brexit regarding the forthcoming assessment on the talks on transition in June 2018. [17972/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: President Tusk has been a consistent and strong friend of Ireland since his time as Prime Minister of Poland. He has been an excellent President of the EU Council and I believe he has handled Brexit extremely well. As the final deals will be settled at summits, he will be central to what is finally agreed. In this context we need some clarity about the timing and nature of any final deal...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: We will do what?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: We all agree with that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The only person doing the sabre rattling is the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: That was always going to happen.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Who said that?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I never used the word "reject". The Taoiseach just makes things up to suit his straw men all over the place.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I have asked the Taoiseach on a number of occasions what he means by the term "meaningful progress". Could he give us some sense of what "meaningful progress" means? It is the Tánaiste who said more strongly than anybody here that if there was no progress by June - "substantial" is the word he used - then it would be questionable whether we would have any deal at all in October. He...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I support Deputy Boyd Barrett on that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Sometimes the Brexit questions get thrown-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Referendum Campaigns (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the referendum campaign on the eighth amendment of the Constitution. [17977/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Referendum Campaigns (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach misunderstood the nature of the question. I will take the opportunity to make a few points in the context of it. While in international terms Ireland has highly independent and regulated elections, we are only beginning to get our act together in referendums. International experience shows that overseas attempts to interfere in votes are increasing rapidly. The work of...