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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: What the Government has said is a very clear commitment and intention to hold the leaving certificate next year. We are giving that certainty to the current cohort of students who are now in sixth year, who had a difficult year last year in fifth year - I am sorry, as I meant this year, but it was last year's academic year - because of Covid-19, the degree of disruption that caused and the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I take the Deputy's point and I will pursue the matter with the Minister again to see if we can expedite it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: No, I am okay.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I have kept the channels open on a consistent basis with the First Minister and deputy First Minister. The Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, is in constant contact with the Minister for Health in the Northern Ireland Executive, Mr. Robin Swann. The respective Chief Medical Officers are engaging. Our views are well known. I have made the point that harmony in terms of the United...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I have made it clear in the past that this is because Britain is leaving the European Union. This is not a scheme; it is a European directive. Europe made this facility available to all the citizens of Europe. It is a cross-border arrangement for health services which are then recompensed by their taxpayers. Since Britain is leaving the European Union, its participation in the directive...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I can tell the Deputy one thing: by the time I am finished, there will be no absence of greenways in west Cork. The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is here and he agrees with me.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Government has been part of the European Commission approach in term ofs the pre-purchase of vaccines from a number of companies. Pfizer-BioNTech is one of the partnerships in respect of which a contract is being explored and it is very close to conclusion. Others are Sanofi, Janssen and Oxford-AstraZeneca. The Government today decided to establish a task force headed by Brian...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I move: That Dáil Éireann has confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar T.D. The decision by Sinn Féin to table a motion of no confidence in the Tánaiste was based on that party's hope that something would turn up that would help it use today for an aggressive political attack on the Government. It was a 100%...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commission on the Future of Policing (10 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: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: The first meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Education is scheduled to take place this month. However there have been a number of meetings held between my Department and Department officials in the Department of Education since August.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Tribunals of Inquiry (10 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Moriarty Tribunal was established in 1997 and published its final report in March 2011. Following publication of that Report, the Tribunal’s team was substantially reduced and a small legal and administrative staff remains in place. The determination by the Court of Appeal in relation to one of the last remaining sets of legal proceedings taken against the Tribunal took place...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Freedom of Information (10 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table: Year Number of FOI Requests Received 2015 290 2016 275 2017 344 2018 490 2019 489 2020 266 (to end October)

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (11 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: Leinster House is world-class too.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: The language used by the Deputy is quite propagandistic. To describe a €3.3 billion budget allocation as "massively disappointing" is extraordinary by any yardstick. Fianna Fáil has not been in power for ten years. That is just the reality and the facts, but Sinn Féin never allows facts get in the way of anything. The bottom line is that we want to build social housing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: It would be useful if people compared and contrasted the Sinn Féin performance in government on housing to that of the current Government here in terms of protecting tenants. Under a Sinn Féin Minister with responsibility for housing, for example, the recent private tenancies legislation in the North simply extended the termination period to 12 weeks, with the courts starting to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy raised a number of issues. Beginning with the Covid-19 situation, the bottom line is that we are part of a pre-purchase agreement with the European Commission. The latter has advance purchase agreements so far, and prior to this week, with Oxford and AstraZeneca; with Janssen, which is owned by Johnson & Johnson; and with Sanofi Pasteur. Those agreements will be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I accept the latter point the Deputy made. Whether or not it is a weekly update, I would like the task force to get down to work on this. That is why we have established the task force and I am very determined to move ahead, notwithstanding the work that has already been under way, to be fair, within the normal channels around immunisation. That includes the work of the National...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I agree that it should be done electronically.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising these very serious issues. Without doubt, Covid-19 has had a significant impact on a range of services and activities and it has created much hardship and difficulties for many people. The Deputy mentioned initially the screening programmes. In the first phase of Covid-19 and the first lockdown, screening programmes were not just scaled down but closed...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I ask the Deputy to send me the details of the cases that he has come across. There is a number of key points here. For example, if someone is leaving prison, there should be a proper plan for that person before he or she leaves prison in terms of rehabilitation or work, and in terms of placement, and each case is different. Much work goes on within prisons to facilitate safe release...