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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Labour Employer Economic Forum (22 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 181. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is a new mechanism for the way in which the Government will engage with organisations (details supplied); and if there will be particular areas of concern that will form part of this dialogue. [22295/18]

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: As the referendum campaign draws to a close, it is important to put on the record that this has largely been a very respectful debate with many people having genuinely held positions on the proposition before the people. For my own part, I can genuinely say that on the doorsteps and in meeting with people in the streets people have been very courteous and very fair irrespective of the...

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. To reiterate, I made my comments this morning with the people outside of this House who are genuinely wrestling with this issue in mind. Many in this House have also wrestled with it. I invite people to watch the powerful testimony of Pat and Mary Lyons on joe.ieabout their daughter's journey to Liverpool in the context of a diagnosis of fatal foetal...

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: -----and the necessity to ensure medical supervision and care for women who may take the abortion pill-----

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: -----in this country, some of whom are doing so right now. Those are the reasons the committee decided on 12 weeks. Those were the issues that informed it.

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: In no way can it be described as it has been described, that is, as somehow wilfully legislating for abortion on demand.

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: That was not the intention of the cross-party committee. I respect all views in the House, including the views of those who have a different view from mine. I genuinely do because it is not an easy issue.

Leaders' Questions (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Ceann Comhairle.

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The programme for Government contains many commitments on public sector reform. Given today's reports about the retirement cliff in the Civil Service there are genuine concerns over the skill mix and the expertise that will be lost in coming years. The Association of Higher Civil and Public Servants has published some staggering statistics. Some 40% of those in management positions are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I think 25 people work in the economic division of the Taoiseach's Department. It is also responsible for statistics and supporting the Cabinet and Cabinet committees in respect of housing. Is the Taoiseach happy to stand over his claim that he made at the Fine Gael Ard-Fheis last year that the Government had a plan and the plan was working in respect of housing? On housing statistics, I...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Minister started the argument.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: First, it has to be said that when the Fine Gael proposal to abolish the Seanad was defeated, the central reason was the refusal to consider more wide-ranging political reform. It has taken far too long to set up this committee. It is rather bizarre that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, decided to sit on the committee. Some believe it was his last-ditch...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: It took a year.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Could we agree to meet on that?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I am particularly interested in the question as it relates to the supports provided by the Taoiseach's Department to Ministers of State. The unseemly row between the Minister of State, Deputy Moran, and Deputy Canney did not reflect well on Government. The image of two individuals tossing a coin at the commencement of Government to decide who would be Minister of State for one year and who...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin is clearly doing very well at the moment.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Mattie McGrath?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Is he not in the Rural Alliance?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: That explains a lot so.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Is that how the Government roped in the Rural Alliance then? Deputy Mattie McGrath denies anything like that.