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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: He is playing a popularity contest all the time. On Deputy Andrews' question, Sport Ireland is the body that advises on this------

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: Through the Chair----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: In the parliamentary Chamber, I am entitled to make comments. I make them in the best of good faith. The Deputy has opposed everything as far as I can see.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy has opposed every single thing.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: Stop shouting, please.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I do not think that is the basis on which I should respond.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I would like to make a final point, if I may. We all enjoy, and engage in, the cut and thrust of parliamentary debate. There was nothing untoward or unparliamentary in what I said. I made a debating point and it was an important point from a policy perspective.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: People say things about me and I accept them in the full spirit in which they are given in parliamentary exchange and debate. What I said was not a slur, smear or aspersion on anybody's character. My comment was about policy. I was speaking to the policy of this issue.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I do not think the Deputy's overly melodramatic response is sincere.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, together. My Department continues to play a central role in co-ordinating the State's response to the Covid-19 pandemic. To date this work has been carried out from within my existing staff cohort, although this has involved significant reallocation and re-prioritisation of work within the Department. This work is co-ordinated through...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: We have answered that question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: To start with Deputy Kelly's questions, the Department of the Taoiseach has not brought in additional staff to deal with Covid-19, as I stated in my reply. It has reprioritised and reallocated work within the Department, as senior members of the Department have been dealing with it on a consistent basis since the outbreak of the pandemic early in the year. The judgment call was that it was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I last reported to the House on this matter on 23 September 2020 and since then I have continued to be in regular contact with First Minister Arlene Foster and deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill. I spoke to the First Minister and deputy First Minister on the evening of Friday, 16 October, when we discussed the evolving Covid-19 position. Prior to that I had a videoconference with the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I should have included the North-South Ministerial Council and my visit to the North on two occasions when I formally met with the First Minister and deputy First Minister.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I reject the assertions made by Deputy Tóibín. They are simply wrong and overly simplistic. There has been very regular contact at multiple levels. That is the way it has to be. I am engaged with the First Minister and the deputy First Minister. At the first North-South Ministerial Council in three and a half years, which was due to the Executive being collapsed, an assembly...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I would kind of agree with the Ceann Comhairle there.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 5 to 8, inclusive, together. I last reported to the House on this matter on 20 September. Since then I have maintained contact with Prime Minister Johnson. I spoke with the Prime Minister on 8 October when we discussed latest developments around Covid-19 and in particular the situation in Northern Ireland, when I supported the cases for additional...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: As regards Deputy Paul Murphy's question, Irish migration authorities operate within their own set of policy parameters and within the legal framework that has been laid down by the Oireachtas. That will remain the position. I will follow up on the specific assertions the Deputy makes, but the work and role of Irish officials in relation to migration policy generally is certainly not as he...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commission on the Future of Policing (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: In September 2018, the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland (CoFPI) published its Report outlining a clear vision and roadmap for strengthening An Garda Síochána and the broader national framework for policing, security and community safety. In December 2018, the Government approved A Policing Service for our Futureas the Plan to implement the CoFPI Report. The Plan was...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: Further consideration is being given to making the information in theResilience and Recovery 2020-2021, Plan for Living with COVID-19 available in other accessible formats and my Department is consulting with the National Disability Authority on the matter. The HSE has partnered with NCBI to produce audio, braille and Large Print versions of public health information. The partnership includes...