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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Employment Initiative (10 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: 303. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the programme for Government commitment on youth employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20849/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (10 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: 424. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the representations he has made to Prime Minister Cameron in relation to disclosing top secret documents in relating to the Dublin and Monaghan bombings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24095/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Adoption Data (10 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: 437. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she or her Department received a report from Adoption Rights Now outlining concerns regarding adoption in Ireland since 1922 and about high mortality rates amongst infants in particular institutions; the actions that have been taken since she received the report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24398/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: 466. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 who is waiting for a double bypass heart surgery at St. James's Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24165/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: 605. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he or his Department received a report from Adoption Rights Now outlining concerns regarding adoption in Ireland since 1922 and about high mortality rates amongst infants in particular institutions; the actions that have been taken since he received the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24397/14]

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: Last Friday, I read in The Irish Timesabout an extraordinary letter from the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, to party colleagues in relation to a number of matters. Principally, the letter stated that the Minister of State would not stand over a Taoiseach firing a Garda Commissioner without so much as a phone call to the leader of the Labour Party. That is a very serious assertion by...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: Why did the Taoiseach not tell the Tánaiste at the time that he was sending the Secretary General to the home of the former Garda Commissioner following a meeting he had had with officials and with the former Minister, Deputy Shatter? Has the Taoiseach spoken to the Minister of State, Deputy White, who is a member of Government and has made this assertion publicly?

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, one of the Taoiseach's Ministers has made the charge, and the Taoiseach has done nothing about that. He has not even talked to him about it. The Taoiseach has some neck to come in here and lecture me about that when one of his Ministers made the same assertion.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: The point is that the former Garda Commissioner, whether or not people liked or disagreed with his policies, was the first person to highlight the issue of the recordings at Garda stations. This was not about a specific phone recording. The Taoiseach needs to stop changing his story as time goes on. This was about the wider issue of phone recordings at Garda stations, about which the...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: The idea that this came as a bolt out of the blue is difficult to comprehend. The essential point is that the Taoiseach, in an unprecedented move which could have only one outcome, sent the Secretary General to the home of the former Garda Commissioner and he did not alert the Cabinet to that. The following morning, prior to the Cabinet meeting, the Secretary General rang the former Garda...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----despite the fact that the Cabinet knew nothing about it. Ministers are on record as saying that they knew nothing about the phone recording controversy or about anybody being sent to the former Garda Commissioner's house. Square that with the truth. It is a serious issue. The Taoiseach cannot hide behind the Fennelly inquiry for a year and a half and hope that it will be buried. He...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: I stand over it.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: What is the Taoiseach's point?

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is another stitch-up.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: Why is the Government side so upset?

Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: I have read the Department of Finance's response to the decision of the European Commission to open a formal inquiry into a number of individual EU member states, particularly in respect of the application of rulings or opinions relating to a particular multinational company that has been in Ireland for well over 30 years and that at times employs up to 3,000 people. We need a comprehensive...

Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: Is the Government prepared to give decent Government time for a comprehensive debate on this issue involving foreign direct investment and multinationals but also SMEs? Let us have a genuine and open debate about where the country should go on this. We need to be far more assertive and robust in the EU than perhaps we have been to date.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am not saying that.

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is 18 months since I began to raise the issue of the removal of discretionary medical cards from very sick children and people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions with the Taoiseach. In fairness, he has moved from a position of total denial of any policy change, which resulted in a dramatically high number of cards being removed from so many deserving people, to blaming a...

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: This is a very serious issue in that the Taoiseach has said 13,000 cards will be restored - the Minister said something similar in his press release, 15,000 - but the bottom line is that if one looks at the HSE performance report of January 2011, there were 80,000 discretionary medical cards. The reply we got at the end of April from the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, with whom the...