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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Properties (8 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: My Department does not own any property. All accommodation used by both my Department and the National Economic & Social Development Office (NESDO) is provided and managed by the Office of Public Works. All accommodation provided is used and occupied.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (8 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: No member of staff from my Department has availed of the Harvard Business School advanced management programme through the Department's learning and development programme in the past ten years to date.

Death of Vicky Phelan: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle is correct. Vicky Phelan did not want eulogy or tribute. She did not want us making speeches about her in this House. It was a mark of the woman that even though her life, her illness and, ultimately, her passing was the catalyst for so much, she wanted action and she did not want it to be about her alone. She made an extraordinary impact on her country and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue and for the manner in which she raised it. I agree wholeheartedly that it is extremely important that the work of Vicky Phelan is reflected in action in terms of legislation, in terms of the framework and architecture of the screening programme itself, insofar as it is located in Ireland, and in terms of the renewal of an audit of the screening...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: Work in respect of the national cervical screening laboratory at the Coombe is under way. It will take time before it will have sufficiency to offer full national coverage, although I would point out - and we have to be objective as best as we can - that Dr. Scally did not find, in respect of the particular lab, that there was a higher or lower incidence than elsewhere. Be that as it may,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising those issues. I dealt with some of these questions earlier but will deal with the specifics again. On the national cervical screening laboratory at the Coombe, the building is complete. It was completed in October. It is expected that it will become operational by the end of the year.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: Sorry, I am answering the question. A workforce plan is in place. Recruitment for the new laboratory is an ongoing priority for the HSE. It is working with the faculty of pathology to build the required expertise. As already stated, Dr. Cillian De Gascun was recently appointed as interim director of the national cervical screening laboratory. A lot will depend on the pace of recruitment....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: In terms of the clinicians meeting with their patients, I will follow through with the Minister and get a response for the Deputy on where that matter stands. That should have happened. It has happened in a number of cases. On the implications for other Departments, all Departments will take on board lessons learned from the CervicalCheck scandal and will follow through on best practice in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: A good polemicist and a great propagandist can often conflate issues and spin them to his heart's content, which is what Deputy Boyd Barrett has done. However, he has done it in a very disingenuous and, dare I say, dishonest way in his presentation and his attempt to conflate the two matters. Suffice it to say that I have repeatedly stated in this House that housing is the greatest social...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: Free trade is the esprit de corpsof this country. Since the 1960s, we have fundamentally changed an insular approach to an external approach by joining the European Union and embracing the Single Market. Why? Because we sell 90% of everything we make in this country, be it services or merchandise. We sell and export to create wealth and jobs in this country. Deputy Boyd Barrett's diatribe...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: We export €4 billion to Canada, which is a country that abides by the same liberal democratic values as we do and which is as committed to climate change as we are.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: Nothing in CETA can stop us-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----or can in any way damage our Constitution or, indeed, the values of the European Union for that matter.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: No, it is not true, actually. The Supreme Court is clear. If the Arbitration Act is amended, the point of law that was raised can be dealt with.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: Sorry, hold on a second. No country can be sued for adhering to the European Union treaty. It is daft to suggest it could be. It cannot.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: Neither can any country be sued in respect of upholding its own constitution.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: That would be the effects of the amendment to the Arbitration Act.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy should not scaremonger in the hypothetical manner he does and raise the one issue.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: I have read about and taken far more substantive advice on this question than Deputy Boyd Barrett has and I can say to him very clearly-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: It is not your question, Deputy Murphy; it is Deputy Boyd Barrett's question. Have some respect for the norms of the House.