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Written Answers — Private Residential Tenancies Board: Private Residential Tenancies Board (18 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 226: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the role of the Private Residential Tenancies Board in securing determination orders against landlords for retaining deposits; the role the PRTB plays in retaining deposits; if the PRTB gives support to tenants pursuing determination orders in the Courts, the future steps he intends taking on these issues;...

Written Answers — Septic Tank Registration Scheme: Septic Tank Registration Scheme (18 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 227: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the role of local authorities in verifying that only certified septic tanks are installed in accordance with current building regulations; if he is satisfied with the role of the local authorities in fulfilling their responsibilities; his position on establishing a national register of certified septic tank...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (19 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 23: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his position in relation to the release of the Belfast Oral History project materials from Boston College; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36871/12]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (19 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 201: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the policy change came into force which now prohibits qualified parents from providing July provision for their children; the reason behind this decision; the reason a person (details supplied) did not receive adequate notice of this change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36371/12]

Written Answers — School Services Staff: School Services Staff (19 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 202: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his position on the decision of his Department not to facilitate new job-sharing arrangements for special needs assistants for 2012/13 when there has always been a precedent to facilitate same; the reasons schools were not informed of this change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36372/12]

Written Answers — School Services Staff: School Services Staff (19 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when will an agreed scheme and circular be in place in relation to job-sharing arrangements for special needs assistants; if the decision not to facilitate new job-sharing arrangements for SNAs for 2012/13 discriminates against SNAs looking to avail of a new job-sharing arrangement while at the same time existing job-share...

Written Answers — Bingo Licences: Bingo Licences (19 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 626: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Bingo Licences operating here; if his attention has been drawn to the growth of profit based Bingo companies; if he has any plans for reforming the issuing of such licenses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36851/12]

Other Questions: Septic Tank Registration Scheme (18 Sep 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of septic tank owners that have signed up to the registration system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39006/12]

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)

Micheál Martin: Before the last general election, the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, personally led a deeply cynical campaign on health promises and health issues. Across the length and breadth of the country, he promised that he and Fine Gael would ensure that no one lost any services and that a set of new, free services would be provided. Upon his appointment, the Minister announced the abolition of...

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)

Micheál Martin: She even offered to chair those negotiations herself. However, she wrote to the Minister on 27 July asking for a report and stating she had no delegated statutory authority in respect of primary care and that she had not been consulted with regard to any matter pertaining to the budget. I put it to the Taoiseach that the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, was asked specifically a number...

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)

Micheál Martin: I ask the Taoiseach whether the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, is correct in stating the Government's commitment to health reform genuinely is being questioned because of the Minister's lack of proactive engagement with the issues. Will the Taoiseach comment on reports that there will be numerous cutbacks in hospitals? Will he outline to the House how hospital deficits will be dealt...

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)

Micheál Martin: Fundamentally I asked the Taoiseach two core questions. First, does the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, have genuine confidence in the Minister, Deputy Reilly? That relates to very fractious correspondence between the two in July and May, when the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, confirmed that despite seeking delegated authority on primary care, she had been frustrated time and...

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Minister did not do a single thing in regard to any of those in the first eight months of this year, knowing full well that those targets were not realisable. That is why I charged that it was a false budget and that is what has put the health service into the crisis in which it finds itself this year in terms of finances. The Taoiseach mentioned waiting lists. The cynical thing the...

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----above which there are very few people, and then he quotes percentages. The key targets and objectives of the National Treatment Purchase Fund and its achievements over the years were dramatically reducing those on waiting lists for more than three months and six months. Since the Minister, Deputy Reilly, has come to office those waiting lists-----

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----have escalated and gone through the roof.

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is not just those on this side of the House who have deep misgivings about how the Minister, Deputy Reilly, is acting. One Labour Minister is quoted as saying: "Several times I have tried to work with him on a number of things and he appears to be so partisan that if you're not one of his cronies, he doesn't want to know. I don't have that problem with any other Fine Gael Minister."...

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)

Micheál Martin: "The first I heard of the cuts was the HSE announcement," said the Minister of State, Deputy Sherlock. "Everyone else has managed to live with Croke Park and keep within budget. What is so special about James Reilly?" asked one senior figure. I ask the Taoiseach to read any newspaper in the past three weeks. The benches here deserted that man in droves in recent weeks and left him...

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach would be well advised not to be attacking this side of the House but to reflect on what is, unfortunately and regrettably, a common refrain across this House irrespective of party or constituency in terms of the management of the health service in 2012.

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)

Micheál Martin: Do they have confidence?

Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)

Micheál Martin: I want to tell the Taoiseach something about the files in the Taoiseach's office that were shredded. Is that a figment of his imagination, Lenin coming to Ireland in 1922?