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Official Engagements (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: I agree with much of what the Taoiseach said about the importance of the extraordinary relationship between Britain and Ireland, particularly the economic and trade relationship. For that reason it is almost incomprehensible that he did not have a meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Cameron, before the summit. All the indications in advance of the summit were that it would be a...

Official Engagements (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: However, it occurred.

Official Engagements (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Dutch did not want the break up either.

Official Engagements (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach agree that President Sarkozy does not run Europe? President Sarkozy proclaimed after that summit that we had got rid of the British and that this was great. He said the way forward is to leave the British behind.

Official Engagements (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Somebody must stand up to President Sarkozy and tell him he does not run Europe.

Official Engagements (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach signed up without it.

Official Engagements (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: And for domestic French politics.

Official Engagements (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: I asked four of the questions in the group, two on the European Union and two on the Good Friday Agreement. On the latter, as the Taoiseach will agree, we are entering into a new and important phase in which the institutions of the Agreement have to be more fully entrenched. I have been struck by independent commentary recently - by which I mean independent of the political system - which...

Order of Business (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: A debate has ensued following the publication of the national health service plan by the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly. Let us make no mistake about it, taking €750 million out of the health service will have an enormous impact. There is also significant uncertainty about the fair deal scheme. Are the 1,200 new places being provided under the scheme net of the 900 places which will...

Order of Business (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach instruct the Whips to organise a debate fairly quickly?

Order of Business (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: The plan has been published and it has been announced that 3,000 staff will leave the health service. A large number of other issues arise from the plan. It makes the House irrelevant if it does not have the capacity or an opportunity to discuss the plan shortly after its publication.

Order of Business (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is already pushing back the debate.

School Guidance Counsellors (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: For most of last year, a steady stream of announcements and leaks came from Marlborough Street. An enormous amount of time was spent telling journalists how progressive reform was under way in a new era for Irish education. The problem through all of this is that it all added up to nothing more than a statement of intention rather than concrete action. Budget 2012 was the moment when the...

School Guidance Counsellors (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Yes.

School Guidance Counsellors (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: I was in schools yesterday and this morning. They told me how well literacy and numeracy programmes have worked under existing schemes that the Minister is now savagely cutting. That is the point. The Minister is robbing Peter to pay Paul.

School Guidance Counsellors (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Minister should make a more honest and decent analysis of that. One does not cut between five and eight teaches in a DEIS school and terminate the entire guidance counselling service and use part of the money for another initiative that will get PR headlines. If the Minister is to do what he ought to, he should concentrate on protecting the areas that are working and that have been seen...

Written Answers — EU Treaties: EU Treaties (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 96: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views that a constitutional treaty referendum is inevitable in view of the euro crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38473/11]

Written Answers — EU Treaties: EU Treaties (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 99: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has published or circulated any document regarding reforms of the European Union. [2446/12]

Written Answers — EU Treaties: EU Treaties (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 100: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has prepared any documents for circulation to other Heads of State and Governments setting out Ireland's position on future reforms of the EU and eurozone. [2447/12]

Written Answers — EU Treaties: EU Treaties (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 101: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the procedures he is putting in place to ensure consultation here regarding potential reforms of the EU and eurozone. [2448/12]