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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: I thought that was covered by the previous question. That said, it gives me the opportunity to go back to the Taoiseach on the issue of electric vehicles. The Taoiseach is not facing up to the reality of the points that I and most people are making. No one is criticising ambition, but there is a responsibility to ground whatever proposals we are making in some framework of reality. No one...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Oireachtas has done-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: What about the electric vehicles?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: I seek the evidence base for the figures.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: I need to see that evidence base.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: If there is one.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Come on. It cannot be back-of-the-envelope stuff.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: There is always an evidence base.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Government has been doing it for 20 years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach give me the Department's evidence base for the electric vehicle figure? He might send that on to me if he does not have it now.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: I ask the Taoiseach to clarify whether there is.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy wasted 25 minutes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: There was a full half an hour.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has stated in the past that he is happy with the structure of the Department of the Taoiseach as it has been since 2016, when the last significant change was implemented. In that case, the change was a reversal of a decision taken five years previously to incorporate the EU division from Iveagh House into Government Buildings. If we assume that the UK's withdrawal agreement or...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: It is not the first time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: We have had specific Ministers with responsibility for disability before.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Is he effective?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: EU Meetings (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: 72. To ask the Taoiseach if Israel and Palestine was discussed at the most recent EU Council meeting. [45244/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Brexit Preparations (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: 80. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for an economic impact assessment of the current withdrawal treaty on trade and other economic metrics under the auspices of his Department and agencies under his remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44272/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: 100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken with his French counterpart in relation to his initial comments regarding his reluctance to the flex-tension on the Brexit date. [44490/19]