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Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: The results of the Westminster election last week have made it very likely that there is a movement towards the restoration of the democratic institutions established under the Good Friday Agreement. Immense damage was done in the past three years since the Assembly and Executive were collapsed due to a controversy over a heating scheme, in which it turns out both sides were implicated. A...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: I suggest that the whole issue of drug gangs is also appropriate to the Cabinet committee on social policy and public services. Recent reporting about the scale and activities of drug gangs in Dublin, and increasingly throughout the country, has confirmed what I and my party have been saying for several years, namely, that there is a new and sinister level of drug activity taking hold and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the officials who accompanied him during bilateral meetings with other Heads of Government in Zagreb. [50337/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the December 2019 European Council meeting. [52987/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he held bilateral meetings while attending the December 2019 European Council meeting; and if so, the issues discussed. [52988/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he met the new European Council President while in Brussels; and if so, the issues discussed. [53348/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: In recent weeks I have been asking and raising with the Taoiseach the increasingly extreme stance of the Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Netanyahu, and whether Ireland will advocate for any action against the threat of annexation of land on the West Bank. I think we can all agree that the Tánaiste's claim that his relationship with the US and with Mr. Netanyahu might lead to some form of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: 100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on Brexit discussions at the most recent Foreign Affairs Council meeting. [52989/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the next steps following the general election in the UK on the withdrawal treaty Bill with his UK counterpart. [53345/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Banking Union (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: 152. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the outcome of the discussions at the December 2019 ECOFIN meeting on strengthening the banking union. [52991/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: European Council Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: 553. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the discussions at the December 2019 Environment Council meeting on climate change; and the way in which the EU plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. [52992/19]

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: Ar mo shon féin agus ar son mo pháirtí, ba mhaith liom Nollaig shona agus athbhliain faoi mhaise a chur in iúl leis na Teachtaí go léir. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle agus an Ceann Comhairle as ucht a gcomhoibriú i rith na bliana. I thank all of your team, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. We extend our best wishes to the Ceann Comhairle....

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Mattie McGrath has been very conscious of that throughout the year. We wish him well. I wish the Taoiseach a very restful and peaceful Christmas. I wish everybody an interesting and exciting 2020. I am sure it will be exciting and interesting. I wish the best of luck to everybody and hope we all have a good and restful Christmas with our families.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (18 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: I always communicated when I was in a dance hall.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: The insurance crisis is having its most immediate and telling impact on the childcare sector. Up to 1,300 providers have been left without insurance cover following a letter from their broker, Padraic Smith, who said that he had spent the past six months trying to find alternative insurers through intermediaries and so on. Providers now have only weeks to find an alternative. Many quotes...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach why the Government was caught so unawares and why the Minister expressed the view that she was shocked and stunned at what was transpiring, given that in June 2019, the Minister for Finance, when asked a question regarding difficulties crèches were having in accessing insurance, said: "I am very conscious of the difficulties being experienced as a result of the cost...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: This has been coming for a while.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: Given all the Taoiseach said on Leaders' Questions, I am sure he must be aware of the case of Eoin Ward, who has been on a waiting list for four years for a scoliosis operation. His mother was on "Prime Time" last night. It was probably the last place she wanted to be because her son's operation was postponed again. It had to be deferred last week because of a shortage of intensive care...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: In recent weeks, the Taoiseach has rolled out what is already a highly negative campaign on his behalf and on that of his party. Who he thinks he is impressing with this is anyone's guess. One part of this negative campaign is the ridiculous claim that everyone who supported a proposal for more investment in public transport, including a major improvement in rural public transport services,...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (18 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: I want to raise two issues in regard to the Cabinet committee on the environment and the work, or lack of work, on the part of Government in regard to the environment. I have repeatedly asked the Taoiseach about the electric vehicle target under the climate action plan and I have pointed out to him that to meet the target set of 1 million vehicles in ten years, almost every vehicle purchased...