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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Websites (26 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach will recall that the report into the now disbanded marketing unit in the Department of the Taoiseach demonstrated that the decision to move to a single State website is far from being accepted best practice. In fact, the head of the marketing unit, who has now been transferred to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, produced a report which looked at only three countries...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Websites (26 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: -----and which we were told would involve consultation with the Opposition leaders before it was carried out? That has been the subject of many questions in the House and it just seems to have disappeared into the ether.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Websites (26 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: I am sorry?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Websites (26 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: It has been abandoned.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Websites (26 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: Forever. Was that announced?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Websites (26 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: What Department is it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach will remember that in 2017 he informed the House he was reorganising the Cabinet committee structures so they would become more active. A pattern has since emerged of Cabinet committees being, at best, marginal to the issues they are supposed to be handling. The facts demonstrate that in areas such as health, housing, Brexit, Northern Ireland and other areas of public concern,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: That is because of a Fianna Fáil initiative.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Preparations (26 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: 83. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the launch of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019 on 22 February 2019; and the status of preparations for a possible hard Brexit, as reported in the media (details supplied) on 20 February 2019. [9375/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Anti-Racism Measures (26 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: 84. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the rise of anti-Semitism in some European countries; and if the matter was discussed when he met other EU counterparts recently. [9376/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Issues (26 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: 437. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the recent comments made by the UK Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in relation to the impact that tariffs will have on the UK agrifood industry and on the cost and availability of food in shops there; the discussions he has had with EU counterparts in relation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (26 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: 504. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the M20 and N20 project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9116/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: In 2012, the then Government led by Fine Gael promised to provide high-speed broadband to 100% of homes and businesses by 2020. The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources at that time, Pat Rabbitte, had humble expectations and estimated the cost at €350 million. In 2013, the tendering process began and his successor, Alex White, announced a new strategy, with the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: I wish to raise two issues. The Taoiseach is saying that further due diligence remains to be done and the cost will be multiples of what was originally envisaged. I note that in response to a question by Deputy Dooley last week the Minister, Deputy Bruton, stated that he wanted to meet the two additional companies. Given that in October we were told a decision would be made within weeks,...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: Cuirim fáilte roimh an mBille agus os rud é go bhfuilimid i láthair anseo i gcomhair an díospóireacht tábhachtach agus práinneach seo. Fianna Fáil supports this legislation and will be facilitating its swift passage through the Oireachtas. While an extension to the Article 50 process seems likely, this legislation still needs to be in place. However,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: In January 2018 the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, announced with great fanfare a Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme which would be available to all local authorities as a solution for many people who were not in a position to secure finance to purchase a home. As we learned quickly and anyone with a busy constituency office would know, the scheme...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: When did the Taoiseach discover that the Government had to do those two things? The Minister said last year: "We are not going to wait for the fund to run out before we build up a second fund to allow a continuation of the scheme with whatever changes we might deem to be necessary". He said that there would be no issue here and he would continue with a second fund. He was saying that as...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Government advises its own press office and tells no one else. We are all dealing with applications in our constituencies. These are people who are desperate to buy homes. If they could get mortgages, they would be cheaper than the rents that they are paying. There have been higher rents for seven or eight years now and they could be paying much less if they could get a mortgage. They...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Minister misled the House. He said he was going to extend it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: That is wrong. He said that he was not going to wait for-----