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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Staff Training (5 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 332. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the training her Department and agencies under its aegis will receive on GDPR legislation; when it will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29841/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Staff Training (5 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 339. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the training his Department and agencies under its aegis will receive on GDPR legislation; when it will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29853/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Training (5 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 343. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the training her Department and agencies under its aegis will receive on general data protection regulation, GDPR, legislation; when it will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29846/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Training (5 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the training his Department and agencies under its aegis will receive on GDPR legislation; when it will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29850/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of meetings he and his departmental officials have had with Dublin local authorities on utilising State-owned lands for building affordable and social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29859/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of meetings he and his departmental officials have had on utilising lands owned by local authorities in counties Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford for building affordable and social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29860/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (5 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he expects building of affordable and social houses on State-owned lands in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29861/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff Training (5 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 363. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the training her Department and agencies under its aegis will receive on GDPR legislation; when it will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29843/18]

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday's drama in London, with the resignation of two senior Cabinet Ministers from the UK Government, should not distract from the key message that has emanated from, as well as the key importance of, the UK Government's Chequers statement on the evolution of negotiations on the UK-EU relationship and Brexit. In essence, the Chequers statement represents a pathway and a platform on which...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. He has said these are internal matters for the British Government, but they are also of relevance to and have a profound impact on Ireland. Put simply, the pathway being pursued by hard-line Brexiters such as Mr. Boris Johnson and Mr. David Davis, if they had succeeded and if they succeed in the future - hard-line Brexiters are still there in numbers...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should listen to the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, a bit more.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should take the advice of the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, who is most desirous of an extended term.

Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: Despite the programme for Government commitment to build further capacity in child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, the waiting lists for young people are getting longer and, more crucially, professional staff are leaving the service. I do not know if the Taoiseach is aware of a study undertaken by researchers in Trinity College Dublin and published today which describes how...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the actions he has taken to strengthen Cabinet accountability as outlined in A Programme for a Partnership Government; if the examination of the role of Ministers for State has been completed; and if it will be published. [26881/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach and his predecessor entered office claiming that they would implement a new approach to accountability for Ministers. In fact, the Taoiseach's predecessor said he would have annual score cards for Ministers, which never materialised. In the Taoiseach's case, we were told that he would hold Ministers to account very closely for their delivery. Has he looked at the work of all...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy should speak with his Whip.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Government Chief Whip does nothing about it at the Business Committee.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: On a contrary approach, one of the entirely false accusations made against some of the large companies that operate out of Ireland is that they are somehow brass plate entities or that they are only tax vehicles. That is nonsense. Apple has been one of the biggest employers in Cork for almost four decades. I can recall that in the late 1990s, when we had just entered into government, there...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: No, but I challenge the Deputy and others to talk to the workforces in these companies, including Intel and the pharmaceutical companies. I was the Minister with responsibility for enterprise for four years. Who are we up against? It is not other European states but Switzerland, Israel and Singapore. People from Singapore were knocking on every door on which representatives of IDA Ireland...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: I am not getting excited. I am getting very real. I am focusing on the jobs in the economy which are often ignored.