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Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he and his officials are planning for the worst-case scenario in the event of the draft withdrawal treaty being rejected by the UK Parliament. [48377/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. The ongoing chaos in Westminster is a reminder to us all that the default position under UK law is that Britain will leave the EU in 115 days' time. The withdrawal agreement may somehow be passed, there may be an extension of the Article 50 process or there may even be a new referendum, but the default position is that unless a majority can be...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: Is this amendment not consequential on amendment No. 43?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff in his Department who provide supports for Independent Ministers in Government. [47126/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: British-Irish Council (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the British-Irish Council meeting held on 8 November 2018. [49138/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the role his officials have in co-ordinating or partaking in Brexit preparedness according to the recent request by the EU Commission. [50473/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council Reports (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 163. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received the recent report from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. [50474/18]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: The housing crisis continues to deepen and to impact on many people across the country. The annual report from Threshold published today makes for depressing reading and illustrates how existing Government policies and initiatives have failed, particularly in relation to security of tenure, substandard accommodation and ongoing homelessness. Threshold has seen a dramatic rise in the number...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: That sums it up. The legislation will be published next Tuesday, a week before the recess. This report relates to 2017 when 32% of calls to Threshold were from people being evicted, a figure that increased to 40% in the first half of 2018. The lack of urgency is incredible. The Taoiseach mentioned all the apartments that are being built. I invite him to go around Dublin where...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: The rent pressure zones have caused evictions and exacerbated the position for many families.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: Was that the Taoiseach's Government also?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: Many years ago, a former Minister, Michael Woods, engaged with an iconic member of the credit union movement, Brendan Roche of the Lough Credit Union in Cork. Out of this evolved the Money Advice & Budgeting Service, MABS. Essentially, that credit union, with the then Department of Social Welfare, put together a financial proposal and vehicle to allow people in difficult financial...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: No-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: About 3,000 loans were given out.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: For example, Drogheda does not have any.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Data (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: I remind Deputy McDonald that this jurisdiction has a Government and that this House facilitated its formation unlike Northern Ireland, which has been without a government for two years, a record length of time. The people of Northern Ireland have no voice in any democratic forum because of very wrong decisions that were taken. The Taoiseach will remember that he repeatedly said that...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Data (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: That is a big problem with the Government.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): British-Irish Council (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: The BIC meeting last month was, unfortunately, a reminder of just how bad things are in the operations of the agreed structures of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Yet again there was no democratic voice for Northern Ireland at the meeting because of the continued suspension of the Assembly and Executive. We were then told that Sinn Féin's concerns about the operations of a heating...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: There is not much to be achieved by trying to discern any final outcome from the chaos in Westminster at the moment. There are many different groups and constantly shifting coalitions. For example, the vote yesterday on the Dominic Grieve amendment was interesting. It saw European-positive Tory MPs, who will mostly support the deal, vote with the UK Opposition while the deal's most bitter...