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Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs (20 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the optimal situation for children in special schools is the provision of multi-disciplinary teams involving teachers, allied health professionals such as physios, occupational therapists and speech and language therapists, in the school setting ensuring correct synergies across all disciplines, consistency over time in attending the needs...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs (20 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will suspend the implementation of the Health Service Executive's programme for progressing disability services for children and young people in view of the fact that it is causing undue anxiety to parents of children with special needs particularly in Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57497/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs (20 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the Health Service Executive's Programme for progressing disability services for children and young persons will not lead to a reduction of allied health professional staff in special schools and that the existing complement will be retained and enhanced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57499/12]

Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am sure the Tánaiste will agree with me that people need to know what they are eating. He will also agree with me that the same standards should apply in terms of quality, the ingredients used and the make-up of meat products, no matter what is the price. People's right to food safety should not depend on how much they are able to spend on food. I was concerned, when listening to or...

Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: The timeline is very important. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Simon Coveney, has just stated on radio that the Department was first informed on 21 December about the outcome of the tests and then asked by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, FSAI, to assist it in getting more samples. What interests me is that in December it was clear that there were disturbing...

Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: When was the Minister informed?

Leaders' Questions (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: He was not informed in December.

Order of Business (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: I read in the Sunday Independent last Sunday that Deputies Olivia Mitchell, Eoghan Murphy and Mary Mitchell O'Connor, to mention a few, are extremely concerned about the unfairness of the Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill and in particular its application to Dublin house owners, who will be expected to pay six times more than the owner of an identical house outside of Dublin. This is an...

Order of Business (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: Perhaps this indicates and illustrates the need to give more time to legislation when it is put before the House. I have a question in terms of forthcoming legislation that I want to ask the Tánaiste in this context. The Minister for Finance has already committed to having a provision in the finance Bill to exempt the owners of pyrite homes from the property tax. Can the Tánaiste...

Order of Business (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: The rest of the House would like to share in any suggestion that there would be amendments.

Order of Business (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: When will that finance Bill be published?

Order of Business (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: For good reason.

Topical Issue Debate: Northern Ireland Issues (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: At the heart of the shocking violence that has spilled across the streets in Belfast in the past six weeks and the economic damage it has wrought is a profound problem with how politics works in Northern Ireland. If politics is not clearly about the bread and butter issues of making people's quality of life better, it will all too quickly revert to being all about flags, emblems and parades...

Topical Issue Debate: Northern Ireland Issues (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: Yes, I acknowledge it was a peaceful protest because the party was unhappy with the direction of a PSNI investigation and wanted one of their own released from custody. The idea of political parties deciding who should and should not be arrested is no longer a tenable proposition for any party to promote. Deputy Crowe rightly raised questions about the motivation behind certain people in...

Topical Issue Debate: Northern Ireland Issues (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: Last October I made a significant speech at Bodenstown on the issues in the peace process on the island. I warned that we were not reaping the full dividend of the Good Friday Agreement and that its potential was not being realised. As a former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and watching events unfold, I made the criticism – not by way of a cheap shot – that politics...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Nuclear Proliferation (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the EU is considering additional sanctions against Iran on the basis of its nuclear development plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1582/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Peace Process (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there was a discussion on Israel and Gaza at the November European Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53795/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Peace Process (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his concerns regarding tensions in Israel and Palestine even though there is a peace agreement at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54063/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his Department have received any representations recently in relation to the Irish Embassy in the Vatican; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50914/12]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency (16 Jan 2013)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will be recruiting or seconding extra staff for the duration of the EU Presidency; if so, the areas to which they will be seconded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50876/12]