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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Summer Economic Statement (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance when the summer economic statement is planned. [19089/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 183. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she and her predecessors have taken to address the concerns of members of an association (details supplied) about their pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19231/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 184. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that the trustees of a pension scheme (details supplied) have acted in the best interest of all beneficiaries and in particular the best interests of an association; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19232/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 185. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she or her predecessors have taken to address the concerns of an association (details supplied) that is of the view that decisions were taken without its input in 2010 in relation to its pension scheme which closed off the defined benefit pension and replaced it with a defined contribution scheme and changed rules...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 186. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if safeguards will be put in place to enable pensioners have a greater say in the governance of their pension scheme in view of the fact that many defined benefit pension schemes are closed to new members and that pensioners constitute a growing percentage of scheme memberships; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 187. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce measures to specifically protect retired members of defined benefit pension schemes particularly in view of the fact that pensioner groups only have one month to appeal the decision of the pension fund trustees to make an application for a section 50 order to the Pensions Authority for reduction in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Legislation (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 188. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to amend section 81E of the Pensions Act 1990 to abolish the six to 12 month time bar in which pensioners cannot pursue a complaint once they have retired longer than 12 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19236/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Legislation (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 189. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether legislation is adequate to ensure that trustees of pension schemes act in the best interests of all beneficiaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19237/18]

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Ar mo shon féin agus ar son mo pháirtí déanaim comhbhrón le clann Monica Barnes as ucht a bás. Is léir gur pholaiteoir den chéad scoth í a bhí dílis dá muintir agus do mhuintir na tíre seo go ginearálta. Bhí dea-thioncar aici ar pholasaithe éagsúla agus chuir sí carn na bpolasaithe sin i bhfeidhm. ...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Susan Mitchell of The Sunday Business Postwrote at the weekend that last week was one of the worst in the history of the Irish health service. She was summing up the understandable anger at how Vicky Phelan was treated, the failure to tell women the truth about their misdiagnoses, forcing a sick woman through the courts and questions regarding the quality of our national cervical cancer...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: In the bubble of Leinster House, we can go in one direction but we must listen to what victims say to us and we must be proportionate. The woman who contacted me asked us to be balanced and proportionate and, above all, to keep her needs as a victim as our number one priority in whatever we do.

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The point is that arguably the system did have time to prepare and did not respond initially as it should have to the Vicky Phelan case. That is why we have had these panicked, rushed measures that have not been properly thought through. There are 7,000 women waiting for a callback. That is an appalling number. Proper thought did not go into what type of helpline should be established and...

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: On the scoping inquiry, the Taoiseach might answer on whether it should report to a different Department. That is a separate matter, however, and I will come back to him on that. What is striking in terms of the reforms that have been announced is that the director general of the HSE announced his retirement date months ago. We now know that he will be leaving in eight weeks time. The...

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: It would.

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: To the Taoiseach's Department.

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is in the terms of reference.

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Is there a timeframe?

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The judgment then is to be without a director general.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The primary reason this issue continues to be raised is that the Taoiseach has continued his policy of refusing to respond to on-topic questions and to deny the reality of serious lapses in what happened with this unit. I have now asked the Taoiseach four times to respond to direct questions about information released by the Secretary General and each time he has ignored the question and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Leuven speech was interesting in that its advance billing to the media as setting out some sort of vision about the future of the European Union was classic hype. It was a standard recitation of broad generalities and it is disappointing that the Taoiseach did not go into specifics about the major structural discussions currently under way within the Union. For example, it is...