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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (20 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: 371. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants that have been recruited to date in 2018; the estimated number to be recruited in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47809/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services Provision (20 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: 372. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the maternity strategy; if they are ahead or behind recommended timelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47810/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Administration (20 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: 527. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is a division within his Department that is involved in the provision of the national broadband plan. [48112/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: Over the past number of years, budgets have reduced income tax and the universal social charge, USC, modestly by approximately €300 million per year. To do that and maintain increased spending, there had to be increases in taxes elsewhere. Last year, for example, commercial stamp duty went from 2% to 6%. That yielded approximately €400 million, which paid for the tax...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: Why did the Taoiseach not answer the question I asked? I asked whether he could give me a precise trajectory of the annual increases in carbon tax that will happen year by year over the next five years. The Minister for Finance has said that there will be carbon tax increases. The Taoiseach said in August that there will be carbon tax increases. It is all very well to make a specific...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: -----income tax by €600 million per year without increasing taxes elsewhere. That is an honest position I am putting to the Taoiseach, and he needs to be honest with people and say that is what will have to happen in the coming years. He owes it to us to give us the same precision as he gave us on income tax reductions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: Will there be a carbon tax increase?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: At what level will it be?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: Of course the Government has.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: Has the Government not worked out the income tax reductions?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: Why can the Government not work out the carbon tax increase?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said in August-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Government said in August it would increase carbon tax-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: There has been plenty of time to do the numbers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform have the numbers done.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach raised this issue last August and has done nothing since.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is in the Executive and Government. He should do something about the issue. He is in la-la land about this stuff.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach dodged the issue. He dodged it in the budget and he dodged it just half an hour ago.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: There is a very good article in the Irish Mirrortoday which details the tremendous attraction that Government Ministers have for golf clubs and the extraordinary lengths to which they went to lobby for lottery grants for such clubs. There was a time when golf clubs were excluded from sports grants given that many thought that the clubs' own resources were enough to sustain them. What...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: What about boxing clubs?