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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (2 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Cabinet Committee on Water Quality has been established in accordance with the commitment in the Programme for Government with a mandate to coordinate water quality improvements across all sectors. The membership comprises the Taoiseach; Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence; Minister for Finance; Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform;...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Meetings (2 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: Minutes of the meetings of the Department of the Taoiseach's Management Advisory Committee (MAC) are published on a quarterly basis and are available to view on www.gov.ie. Given the nature of the work of the Department of the Taoiseach, members of the MAC engage with me, the Tánaiste, the Ministers of State assigned to the Department of the Taoiseach, and other members of Government...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: Tá sé dochreidte an méid atá laistigh den tuarascáil seo, go raibh dochtúir ann a bhí sásta springs den saghas seo a cheadú in obráid do leanaí. Ní raibh aon cheadúnas ann. Tá sé dochreidte an méid atá tar éis tarlú. My thoughts are with the families, the three children and the trauma they have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: If I want to be blunt about it, it actually is fundamentally about decision-making within the hospital setting and within the operating theatre. Too often within this House and across the political world, we immediately go to the political domain. There comes a time when we equally have to stand up for what is right and proper, and I know the Deputy wants to, but let us call a spade a spade...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: People talk about well wishing. It is as plain as night follows day. One does not use unauthorised devices on any child. That is at the heart of it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: First, I want to join with the Deputy in expressing our very best wishes to Deputy Boyd Barrett as he goes through treatment. We have had many a good joust in the House-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: ----- as has the Deputy, as she says - and his voice will be missed over the next couple of weeks. We wish him the very best in the treatment he is about to go through and we wish him a full recovery. There is some distance to travel here yet on the issue of tariffs and trade wars. It is very serious and grave. The initial focus has to be on whether we can get this onto a negotiation...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: Whatever we do has to be financially sustainable over the long term. It is just far too early to be venturing anything on that front just yet. This is not the same as Covid-19, as the Deputy has acknowledged. Therefore, our response has to be one that is sustainable, but also we must have some sense of where this is going to settle, if indeed it settles at all. I believe it will in time...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I condemn without reservation the attacks by the IDF on Gaza, the bombing and the continuing slaughter within Gaza, in particular the murder of emergency responders that the Deputy has referenced. That has been confirmed, essentially, in terms of what happened on 23 March, in terms of 15 emergency responders being murdered. I say that without hesitation. It is quite shocking that something...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I will make three points in response to what Deputy O'Callaghan made reference to earlier. On overflights, there are set regulations and legislation governing that. I will ask the Minister for Transport to again pursue the issue the Deputy has raised with regard to Lufthansa. We cannot physically stop planes but we can certainly take actions subsequently. There are no planes landing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I thank Deputy Collins very much for raising the issue, which is of grave concern to those who have been depleted of their resources. Towards the end of his contribution Deputy Collins, in some respect, provided the answer. The Central Bank is responsible for the regulation of financial advisers. I do not know whether this person was registered with the Central Bank in the first instance....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I will indeed. I might discuss it with the Deputy if he has case studies that he can bring to our attention. I will also talk to the Minister for Finance, who I think will be happy to engage, because it is awful for this to happen to anybody. There is the old adage that if it is too good to be true, then it is too good to be true, in terms of potential returns from investments. That said,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: There is no need for a vote. We are going to set up the committees as quick as we can.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. We have about 3,000 schools in this country. When schools find themselves in financial difficulty, there is a structure and system in the Department of Education to respond to such schools. I will refer the matter to the Minister for Education. I ask the schools involved to engage with the section in the Department that deals with schools that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is very disappointing-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----that only two orders have made any sort of meaningful responses, one being the €12.5 million from the Bon Secours order, which has been accepted. This is what was recommended by the Nunan committee. I pay tribute to Sheila Nunan for the work she has done. The other response concerned a building. I will have to get greater clarity in terms of its value and so on. The Minister...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: My understanding is that significant resources were put into the schools through that programme. This may not have been in the capitation category, but in terms of curriculum supports and other supports in the general area for young people in particular, including therapeutic supports for children and multidisciplinary teams. I think that has worked very well. Again, I will refer this...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: Easpa uisce, an ea?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: Sewage, gabh mo leithscéal. Níl an t-eolas sonrach agam ach déanfaidh mé fiosrú ar an gceist. Is olc an scéal é nach bhfuilimid in ann dul ar aghaidh leis na seomraí breise. Déanfaidh mé fiosrú leis an mbardas agus leis an Aire féachaint an féidir linn rud éigin a dhéanamh go gearrthéarmach chun...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Micheál Martin: I was there on the day we announced the €50,000, which was warmly welcomed by the Deputy and by everybody else. Fair play to the Deputy, he has doubled his bet now in terms of the request. It was the first time ever a response of this kind came from Government and it was part of wider financial supports that were allocated to cancer centres across the country. Yes, Cancer Connects...