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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (14 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: 71. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the EU/USA trade agreement talks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35665/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Exemptions (14 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: 346. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if persons in nursing homes are obliged to pay a vacant house water charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39249/14]

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday's budget was strong on rhetoric and somewhat poor on substance. There are many issues one could discuss such as the lack of initiatives on small-to-medium-sized enterprise, the lack of transparency on the health Estimate, water charges and the lack of a substantial public investment programme, but my focus this morning is on the tax changes introduced yesterday. Without question,...

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer the specific question I put to him. Is it fair that someone on €18,000 gets €174 a year before he or she has to pay the water charges while someone on €100,000 gets €746? That is the basic proposition I put to the Taoiseach and I asked him a very simple question. Is that fair? I asked the Taoiseach a second question, namely what is...

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is the opposite, as every commentator has acknowledged.

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach have an estimate for it?

Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: There is €35 million allocated in the budget for mental health services, but that is approximately €15 million short of what should be in place by now if programme for Government commitments had been honoured. The relevant Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, indicated last year that she had a promise from the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform that the €15...

Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: This suggests a sinister turn in politics and there has been a pattern in the Government's behaviour in this regard. It is whether it concerned Deputy Mick Wallace and the former Minister, Deputy Alan Shatter-----

Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----or the hospital chief executive officers who wrote to the Government and subsequently saw details of pay in the media and the public domain.

Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: Now a Deputy from the Taoiseach's party who commented on the McNulty appointment-----

Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: There are details on the front of a newspaper, but from where did they come? How did they get into the public domain? It is sinister.

Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is a very serious matter. Across society people are afraid to speak out against the Government.

Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: In the health service, people are afraid to speak out.

Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State should stop his trivial, infantile interjections. This is a serious matter.

Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: There should be an inquiry, as people want to be able to write to the Taoiseach's office with a degree of certainty that the issues would be confidential. It is a very sinister development.

Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should check it out.

Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is not true.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: In every part of our country there are families facing the reality of a two-tiered, deeply unfair recovery. The way to assess this budget is not how many headlines it gets but how much it helps those who are being left behind. No matter what way you look at it, the budget has failed this test. Yesterday the Government delivered the first of two election budgets. It had no social economic...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: Nobody suggested that; I am making the point that, like everything the Government does, it is about presentation.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday, Deputy Michael McGrath highlighted this issue and pointed out that the Government was fortunate-----