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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Accountability (23 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: 196. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the meetings he had held with his officials in relation to the independent panel report on reform of the Civil Service. [35640/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research and Development Funding (23 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: 209. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions he has taken to determine the balance of expenditure between basic research and applied research in each of the research funding agencies; the information which has emerged from this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35498/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (23 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: 423. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on plans regarding the overseas development programme in 2015. [35642/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation (24 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: 79. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will, further to his recent replies to questions relating to a new science strategy, publish the framework and terms of reference which he references in those replies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36052/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation (24 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: 80. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the specific persons and organisations who have had a direct input into the draft framework and terms of reference of the new science strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36053/14]

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: I want to ask a number of questions regarding the appointment of Mr. John McNulty to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA. On Friday last, the Taoiseach issued an apology, saying: "I wouldn't say it was my finest hour and I take responsibility for this having evolved to what people might imagine it is." That apology calls for a far greater degree of clarification. People are...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am disturbed by the Taoiseach's reply in one key matter. He stated that he apologised in his capacity as uachtarán Fhine Gael. Would it not be better and more appropriate to apologise in his role as An Taoiseach of the Government?

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: He undermined a key cultural institution by using it as a political tool and insulting it. He owes it an apology, as does the Minister. In the process, he also undermined the Seanad, a key institution in our parliamentary structure.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has his views on the Seanad but, as he knows, it is a key part of the Constitution. He should apologise more fundamentally on those two counts and not, with the greatest respect, in relation to his role as leader of the Fine Gael Party, which suggests a self-absorption by him and his party that defies all logic and credibility. I find it incredible that this is the response we...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: Who picked up the telephone and asked that Mr. McNulty be appointed quickly to qualify him for the Cultural and Educational Panel? Most people would like a definitive answer to that question.

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: Did Fine Gael ask that Mr. McNulty be appointed to the board of IMMA?

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach apologise to IMMA?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: In regard to this question, and given what the Taoiseach said earlier in terms of the Minister, Deputy Howlin's announcement today, I point out that we had a similar announcement three and a half years ago. The Labour Party manifesto in 2011 stated it would:...end the system whereby appointments to State boards are used as a form of political patronage and for rewarding insiders. In future,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: There is the case of the Minister, Conor Murphy, and the appointment of Máirtín Ó Muilleoir to the board of Northern Ireland Water. I believe there were other appointments which ended up in legal wrangles due to the shenanigans that went on. I could say there are many quangos and community boards in Northern Ireland that have the Sinn Féin imprint. I am just making a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: The parliamentary question was asked by Deputy Robert Troy in July last and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has announced the changes today. However, to take his own Department, where I acknowledge there were only 22 appointments to two boards up to July, not one of them was of a public applicant. That is 0% in the percentage of public applicants------

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: This is from a parliamentary reply. I do not know the boards.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: To continue, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government made 177 appointments yet the number of vacancies advertised was nil and the number of public applicants selected was nil. I do not know what the then Minister, Mr. Hogan, was doing but he clearly did not believe in any of the rhetoric from before the election or any of the principles that both parties announced...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: Therefore, the power resides with the Minister anyway.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: Yes, but the Government is not changing that fundamental point. I am just trying to get clarity. There is a lot of smoke. All of this was said three and a half years ago and the performance did not match the rhetoric - that is the point I am making. How do we know that now, following today's announcement, it is going to be any different for the next year and a half? Clearly, some...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)

Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met or spoken to Chancellor Merkel recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35618/14]