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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government Information Service (15 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am not going to do that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government Information Service (15 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach agree there was a policy and this is why this report was published? Will he give instructions to his Ministers not to engage in such a practice again? Most people would say that the reason this report was not published earlier was because of the budget decision on tax relief for health insurance, which hammered health insurance, the flak that would flow from the report,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government Information Service (15 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: I would not publish something on St. Stephen's Day.
- Order of Business (15 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: No. I am somewhat taken aback by the lack of notice to the leaders of the Opposition regarding the Government proposal in relation to the debate on the terms of reference of the commission of investigation into a whole range of issues, particularly the recording of phone conversations in Garda stations, the Sophie Toscan du Plantier case and so on. Last week, we inquired as to who,...
- Order of Business (15 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: I wish to refer to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's most recent reports, the grave warnings that have been articulated in respect of the future of our planet as a result of the impact of climate change and the lack of any sense of real leadership on the part of the Government regarding this issue. The Taoiseach confirmed that at Question Time when he indicated that the...
- Order of Business (15 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: What about the licensing of health care facilities Bill?
- Order of Business (15 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach would not want to go down there now.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (15 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: 491. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he or his Department have been asked to review the death of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who died outside a nightclub on 26 March 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17859/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (15 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: 492. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has been requested to commence a judicial review on the circumstances surrounding the death of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who died outside a nightclub on 26 March 2001. [17860/14]
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday the Taoiseach was asked questions in the House about the new water tax and standing charge and he gave very little information to the Members of the House. He referred to a draft memo from Irish Water but played down its implications. He failed to mention anything about a draft memo going to Government this morning for a special meeting on water charges and the water tax issue,...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: We learned, for example, that the average cost will be between €250 and €300 and that the free allowance will consist of a seven minute power shower, a three minute tap run to brush one's teeth and two flushes of the toilet and that is basically it. That is the level of detail that was available this morning. There will be an annual standing charge, we were told, applying to...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: Will there be an ability to pay provision in the regime? Will there be any link to a person's income or capacity to pay?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: Which test?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is anything but clear this morning. No one could decipher anything from what he is saying. If the Taoiseach had turned on "Morning Ireland" this morning and heard the political correspondent, Ms Martina Fitzgerald, he would have heard that the Government was bringing this memo to Cabinet today and that this was going to be announced today. By the end of "Morning Ireland" the...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, the people I meet, including pensioners, are basically concerned about what bill they will receive in the last quarter of this year. That is what people want to know. They were aghast when they saw the €180 million extravagance surrounding the establishment of Irish Water. That annoyed and angered many people. There was secrecy surrounding that.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach endeavoured to keep it under the radar for quite some time. He then said he would publish everything well in advance of the local elections but he has not done so. He keeps trying either to leak or soften the blow, but the public want to know how much they will be paying for water by the end of this year. It is a basic and simple request. The only reason they do not know is...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: Is it because Labour angrily raised the leaks to the newspapers this morning and the Taoiseach has deferred it from today? What are the implications of that? The Taoiseach did not answer the question of whether there will be an ability to pay provision in the regime that is being announced. The memo that was circulated to the media says that any welfare protection has been categorically...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is categorically in the memo, according to RTE's reporting today and the newspapers.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is in all the newspapers that the level is €537 million. That is the exact figure.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: And they were.