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- Order of Business (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: I refer to the big ones.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Government may not have to.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: Their opinion of themselves is unreal.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is a gerrymander for the Labour Party. They will have eight seaters to protect their local electoral seats.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that our health services are putting in place sufficient measures to deal with hospital acquired patient infections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48952/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health his views on the concern that cutbacks in cardiology in the Midwest Regional Hospital, Limerick, are putting undue pressure on services at University Hospital Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48951/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the necessary funding for a project (details supplied) in Dublin 16 will be made available now that planning permission has been granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49205/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Museum Projects (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the spending on improvements that have been undertaken at a museum (details supplied) in Dublin 14; the outstanding works that remain to be completed; the moneys that have been allocated for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49206/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding provided by the Office of Public Works towards flood relief in south county Dublin; if he will detail the projects for which moneys have been provided; if he will also detail those projects for which funding requests were rejected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49207/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the refuse collection services provided by private operators in the Dublin area meet with EU standards, particularly in relation to the collection and disposal of organic and garden waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49208/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Domestic Violence Refuges (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that a housing association (details supplied) is unable to provide crisis refuge accommodation for many of the victims of domestic violence seeking support, his plans to increase the provision of family refuge accommodation here; his plans to increase provision of family refuge accommodation here; and if...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (13 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: The concerns of Limerick were not addressed at all.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: First, I welcome the decision of the Irish people to support the children's referendum last week and to insert the proposed clause into the Constitution. That decision was stained somewhat by the stark and blunt judgment of the Supreme Court when it essentially made it clear that the Government not only dismissed the McKenna judgment but was in breach of the Constitution in carrying out its...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----and that it could not trust the Referendum Commission anymore. Did someone say something?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: I want to ask the Taoiseach some questions on this. Obviously, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Fitzgerald, took a calculated decision to proceed on this route of a Government campaign separate from that of the Referendum Commission. Will the Taoiseach outline why that decision was taken? Did the Attorney General examine all of the information that was contained in the...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: There is no speculation. There is no one adding any reasons. It is merely what was stated by the Supreme Court, that the Government was wrong and was in breach of the Constitution. Does the Taoiseach not get that?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: We do not have to wait for a month.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: This is the decision of the Supreme Court. I am somewhat concerned by the equivocal response of some of the Ministers, particularly the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, suggesting, of course by innuendo, that the High Court is nearly as good as the Supreme Court, that the High Court said one thing, the Supreme Court said another, and we are very reasonable people in the middle.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: We in Fianna Fáil would not have the same intellect as Deputy Shatter, by any means, to put ourselves in the place of the Supreme Court.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: Nor would we ever attempt to second-guess the Supreme Court.