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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: This year the Government seems to be taking a different tack for some reason.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Or will the Government kick real problems into next year?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: I would say in passing that the Taoiseach's attitude to Cabinet sub-committees has been poor in terms of efficiency and the structures that he has brought in have been ineffective, particularly in housing and health. In particular, the issue of homelessness continues to get worse. The number, at more than 10,000 people are homeless with 70 new children becoming homeless last month alone,...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: That is not to talk about the home help situation where there are significant delays in terms of home care packages and home helps, with consequential delayed discharges of patients from the acute hospitals where we cannot get locations, etc.-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: There is a real crisis. The Cabinet sub-committees seem ineffective in dealing with the issues of health and housing.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: He has a slush fund.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should concentrate on his own policy.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should not be flippant about that. It is a serious issue.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is wrong.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: No.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach ask the leader of the Labour Party why he did not support the withdrawal agreement and why he did not facilitate the passage of that through Westminster? While I accept his good faith in terms of the Good Friday Agreement, it has to be said that his position on Brexit has not been constructive and has not really contributed to a resolution of the issue. The reports last...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach knows what they are, though.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Brexit Issues (2 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has discussed security in the Border region with Prime Minister Johnson recently. [39896/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met or spoken with the DUP leader, Ms Arlene Foster, since 2 October 2019; if the EU response to alternative suggestion by the UK Government to the backstop was discussed; and if the Northern Assembly will be restored before 21 October 2019. [40812/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the reaction from business groups in Northern Ireland to the latest suggestions from the UK Government on custom checks with the leader of the DUP; and her reaction to same. [40813/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee which covers policy on direct provision centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40819/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 9. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to or met with his UK counterparts or other EU counterparts since the UK Government submitted its written alternative suggestions to the backstop to the EU; his views on whether it is a final offer; and his further views on whether the Prime Minister is determined to scrap the backstop. [40811/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an extension will be applied for and granted to the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union if it is not possible to negotiate or agree a Brexit deal at the EU Council meeting in October 2019 in view of the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019 (details supplied); and if the EU is planning for all scenarios. [40814/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 11. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the written alternative arrangements from the UK relating to the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union are a breach of the agreement between the two Governments in December 2017; and his views on whether the Good Friday Agreement is also breached by same. [40815/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Controls (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 27. To ask the Minister for Finance if officials have been requested to assess the technological options for the Border separate to and in the absence of custom checks for certain goods. [40816/19]