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Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: Forget it. This is pathetic.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: Yes, the Taoiseach should answer the questions about Northern Ireland.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: He is hardly being barracked.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he is satisfied with the progress on the implementation of A Programme for a Partnership Government. [39765/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the commitments on defence policy in A Programme for a Partnership Government. [40023/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: The review of the programme for Government published during the summer is quite striking in how it includes a statement of how much has been spent on everything but has almost no engagement with the impact which policies are or are not having. For example, the shambolic failures of this Government and the previous one in respect of broadband are ignored. So too are nearly all adverse...

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: Why?

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: On the National Treatment Purchase Fund?

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: He gets help with planning though. He gets a lot of assistance.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: Hold on-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer the question on whether he would confirm-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: He deliberately avoids answering the questions.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: He is deliberately avoiding the questions. There are not constant interruptions. He is just not answering the questions.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: He is deliberately refusing to answer questions.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: We do not need a course. Let us not overdo it here. We get less than a minute to ask questions. The Taoiseach deliberately goes off on tangents about-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: -----Donald Trump and all the rest of it instead of answering the specific questions that were asked.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach confirm-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: Absolutely.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Gender Equality (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to address gender equality issues in a Citizens' Assembly. [39541/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Gender Equality (3 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: I agree with Deputy Burton on gender equality that there is a whole range of areas to be addressed, not just pay equality, such as under-representation of women, for example, in the senior echelons of universities and third level education which is quite striking. Where the Citizens' Assembly model has been effective is where the question put to it has been specific rather than covering a...