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Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (18 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 277: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the criteria used to determine eligibility for applications under reasonable accommodations for the leaving certificate examinations in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork, who was refused a spelling and grammar waiver and whose appeal was refused. [17757/12]

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (18 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 278: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the criteria used to determine eligibility for applications under the reasonable accommodations for the leaving certificate examinations in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who was refused a spelling waiver and appeal was refused. [17758/12]

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (18 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 279: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the criteria used to determine eligibility for applications under reasonable accommodations for the leaving certificate examinations in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork, who was refused access to a reader, refused a spelling waiver and an appeal was refused. [17759/12]

Written Answers — State Examinations: State Examinations (18 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 280: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the criteria used to determine eligibility for applications under reasonable accommodations for the leaving certificate examinations in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who was refused access to a scribe and is pending appeal. [17760/12]

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (18 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 951: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there will be a review of security for members of the Government following recent events; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17864/12]

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: I have just learned of the sad passing of Mr. Paul Barry who worked in Leinster House for many years. On behalf of the Fianna Fáil Party, I convey our sympathy and sorrow to Paul's family. He was an outstanding gentleman who was kind, courteous and represented the best traditions of the Houses. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. The budget the Government introduced hit the lowest income...

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Minister's position is deceptive because it is pretending to make a change without making any. Incidentally, I agree that it is wrong to reduce the age to seven years. If the Minister and her Government colleagues are serious, surely the only honourable and sincere approach would be to withdraw the Bill or, at least, delete section 4 which gives rise to this provision. It is not...

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: That is an extraordinary comment by the Tánaiste, avoiding the core point of the question. If he agrees with the Minister, Deputy Burton, who perhaps believes she is Tánaiste in a different way, that the age of seven is too young for anyone to contemplate access to education or adequate child care on the Scandinavian model, why put this into the Bill in the first place? Why make this...

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is an attack on single parents.

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: Has she not engaged already?

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: There is.

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is a cut, not a reform.

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste was good at it himself at one time.

Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste knows a lot about taps going on and off.

Order of Business (19 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: I oppose the Order of Business as it is laid out on the grounds that it is important and necessary there should be a comprehensive debate on water charges.

Order of Business (19 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday we asked for the Minister to come before the House to make a detailed statement on the issue and to take questions. It is extraordinary that every newspaper, radio and television programme has been able to debate the issue while the one place it cannot be debated is Dáil Éireann where the elected representatives of the people are. It speaks to the irrelevance of the House in...

Order of Business (19 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Rabbitte is laughing because he does not believe his fellow Minister's hyperbole, but if the decision is that big, surely the Government can facilitate a decent debate on the issue where the Minister can come before the House to make a detailed statement and take questions?

Order of Business (19 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: The hapless Minister of State is probably fed up standing in for the Minister.

Order of Business (19 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: Metering is starting in October.

Order of Business (19 Apr 2012)

Micheál Martin: Given what was said earlier, is it now promised that section 4 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill will be deleted on Committee Stage? Will the Tánaiste confirm that we can expect amendments in line with what was said by the Minister for Social Protection last night? Will section 4, which deals with the reduction in payments to single parents up to 2014 and establishing the age of...