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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee at which climate change is discussed; and the committees at which the issue can arise. [3040/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. This time last year he was spending large amounts of public money not just promoting the new national development plan, NDP, but also advertising specific projects in different parts of the country. We all remember that. The project about which he talked most was the national children's hospital. He said many times that the NDP was fully costed and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: Some are saying it was €1.7 billion. It can be divided into two amounts, €1.4 billion and €300 million, but that is €1.7 billion in total. Why will this overspend and the dramatic increase in construction inflation about which we have been told in terms of the hospital not happen with other healthcare projects and NDP projects across the board? Presumably the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach ropes them in when it suits him and throws them to the wolves when it does not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: What about IT and kitting it out?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: 117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the annual meeting with the President of the United States of America has been confirmed. [4350/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: 121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has met or spoken with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland since the car bomb in Derry was found on 19 January 2019 and the following threats of violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4041/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: 122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he spoke directly with the Polish Foreign Minister regarding the suggestion of putting a time limit on the EU backstop; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4042/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: 123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has met the Palestinian ambassador recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4043/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: 124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has met or spoken with the Israeli ambassador recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4044/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: 125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has met the EU ambassadors as a group with regard to Brexit recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4045/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: 126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has met with or spoken to the British Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, Mr. Stephen Barclay recently; if they discussed the most recent comments by Mr. Barclay on the extension of Article 50; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4046/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: 127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the meetings he has had with the DUP and Sinn Féin recently; if the Northern Ireland Assembly was discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4047/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: 139. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken with President Donald Tusk or Mr. Michel Barnier since 21 January 2019 regarding the statement by Prime Minister May in the House of Commons. [3856/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: 138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if European Union leaders or officials on their behalf requested a change to the EU backstop; and if there have been requests from his Polish counterpart on having a five-year time limit on same. [3852/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Accommodation (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: 249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that on 4 July 2018 there were 314 prisoners detained in Cork prison which has a capacity for 296 and a peak capacity of 310; if he was informed of these emergency circumstances; his views on whether the prison is safe for both staff and prisoners in cases in which the peak capacity...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Work Projects Funding (29 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: 516. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way in which a project (details supplied) in Dublin 11 is funded by her Department; when she last visited the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3795/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: Thousands of patients are being impacted as we speak because of the nurses strike. In passing, I welcome the care that is continuing to be given to cancer patients and to patients on dialysis, and that an agreement was reached with the nursing organisation. However, 25,000 appointments have been cancelled and there is a lot of anxiety out there among patients, people with chronic illness...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: There was no limit to the budget for the children's hospital. It is wrong to try to pit against nurses the idea that if we do a deal with nursing, or if this issue gets resolved, it will somehow be at the expense of medicines and patients, and so on. The Taoiseach gave a very impressive, detached commentary and a series of observations at the beginning of his response, full of empathy and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: Brexit was never invoked at his Ard-Fheis last autumn. My point is that the Taoiseach said yesterday that this will be resolved and that all disputes end up being resolved. There are mechanisms available. We had a nursing commission in the past which dramatically transformed nursing relative to the prior position.