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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Protected Disclosures Data (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 231. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of whistleblower complaints in his Department since the legislation was introduced in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25654/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are regular assessments in his Department on the way in which decisions on issues could be delivered faster than currently; if actions are being taken to allow processes, procurements and other decision-making matters more responsive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25635/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities have made requests or suggestions to him regarding the way in which decision-making in his Department could be improved to allow a swifter response to providing social and affordable homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25636/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Protected Disclosures Data (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of whistleblower complaints in his Department since the legislation was introduced in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25662/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Constitutional Amendments (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the amendment of the Constitution (extending the franchise at presidential elections) Bill to extend the franchise at presidential elections is expected to be introduced; and the role his officials have in same. [25601/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Protected Disclosures Data (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 274. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of whistleblower complaints in her Department since the legislation was introduced in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25655/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: There is an overarching issue concerning the management of human resources and industrial relations within the health services, which are, by any objective assessment, dysfunctional. Morale is very low across all grades and levels of people working in the health services. Pressure undoubtedly is rising, as health needs and pressure on staff are becoming more acute. The pressure is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I acknowledge and accept the Taoiseach's expression of sympathy on the shocking and untimely passing of Manus Kelly who would have been an outstanding public representative for us in the Letterkenny electoral area. Our thoughts are with his wife, Bernie, family and friends. I put it to the Taoiseach that SIPTU is reluctant to go to the Labour Court because it has the sense that the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I concur. We have no difficulty at all with changing the order to facilitate such a debate.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Let us refer to the Business Committee.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I will speak to two developments in the context of the release of documentation under the Freedom of Information Act pertaining to the national broadband plan. It has emerged that at a meeting last September that was attended by the then Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Naughten, very serious reservations were articulated by the Minister for Public...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: They were published on thejournal.ielast week.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Fair enough. I am only being helpful.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I agree with some of the previous comments about NESC and its various reports. The last Government to introduce a substantive free-travel scheme on public transport was, of course, a Fianna Fáil Government in the late 1960s, when Charles J. Haughey was Minister for Finance, for those in receipt of the old-age pension. It has a radical impact on the quality of life and utilisation of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Of course, the resident university is thrilled with the profile and we are all happy campers. Meanwhile we cannot implement the smoky coal ban. Thirty years after Mary Harney introduced it in Dublin, it has still not reached places like Enniscorthy and the Government caves in to the fuel companies and says it will not implement a smoky coal ban-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: -----in the remaining 20%. When the children's hospital happens and when broadband happens, there is no roadshow. At one meeting, it was revealed that within a month the cost of that had increased by €300 million and no one bats an eyelid, just saying, "That's okay; just add €300 million to the €2.6 billion we agreed last August." If all else fails the Government will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: It is a fantasy at the moment.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Dunkettle interchange was agreed.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Could the Taoiseach explain why the Dunkettle interchange has not happened?

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: The public were not allowed in.