Results 30,121-30,140 of 51,299 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Cross-Border Co-operation (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the possibility of increased crime, smuggling and fraud in Northern Ireland and at the Border region was discussed during his most recent meeting with his UK counterparts; and his plans to deal with same. [38505/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the families in direct provision centres are there on a voluntary basis in view of the comments by the Taoiseach on a television programme (details supplied); if many have applied for HAP to allow them to be accommodated outside centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39270/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 243. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there has been a reduction in the number of adults or families that live in direct provision centres since the rules to allow them to work have been changed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39271/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications Data (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 244. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average length of time it takes to review and assess asylum applications for those families being accommodated in direct provision centres on a long-term basis; if changes have been introduced to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39272/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 245. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of legal cases that are ongoing for those families that are still being accommodated in direct provision centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39273/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 309. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for approval for new drugs; the way in which this compares to other OECD or EU countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39267/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 330. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the number of inspections that EHOs have undertaken of service stations; if they are inspected as regularly as restaurants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39356/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 451. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the commitments made by Ireland on climate change at the UN Climate Action Summit. [39631/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 649. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the role her Department has in the allocation of grant assistance to a centre (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39544/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The fast-track planning scheme, the strategic housing development scheme, has not delivered and is not delivering faster housing construction and it has de-democratised and undermined local input into our planning system. In an academic paper emanating from UCD and Queen's University, it is revealed that a group of developers essentially captured the then Minister, Deputy Coveney, and got...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: I did. I said that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: I said that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has been in government since 2012, not just since he became Taoiseach, and he needs to take responsibility for that period too. The bottom line is that it has not resulted in faster construction. I have produced research. It is not my research but research from UCD, Queen's University and The Sunday Business Post, for which Killian Woods did much work to identify what got...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: It was.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: I read the Minister's speech on the day and I have reread it. He rang the developers, all excited, and they came in. They gave him the plans and he took them lock, stock and barrel. That is what they tell the researchers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Quite a number of them told that to the researchers. The Minister accepted their proposals lock, stock and barrel. Some Fine Gael national politician who is very involved in housing told them that is the Fine Gael way, that Fine Gael believes in the market and that the market will solve the housing problem. It has not solved it and homelessness is far worse since the Taoiseach became...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should be producing the alternative evidence, not just telling us to consider the counterfactual. The Taoiseach should have that evidence. This was raised yesterday by Deputy Boyd Barrett. I accept that the Oireachtas acted in good faith but we were wrong and we should now go back on the decision and revert to the local authority model. Builders on the ground have told me...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: They are not homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Fianna Fáil in government built far more houses, even during the recession, than the Taoiseach's Government has built subsequently.