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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the undocumented Irish while he was on his recent trip to New York; if there was progress on the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36523/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he met with the Mayor of Boston when he visited here; the issues that were discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37646/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he met President Obama on his most recent trip to New York while addressing the UN; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37648/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: I tabled five questions in this group of ten. They cover climate change, the undocumented Irish and meetings with the various US mayors. Governor Brown is out of order. I do not accept the American position on this. We live in a globalised society. We do not control it from Ireland. We are not responsible for the global order that now exists, in the free market economy and the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is rubbish. What is the Taoiseach talking about?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: No, it did not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: It did not. It was the most resilient sector during the recession.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: The E-3.
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: There is a survey in today's newspapers showing that 666,000 subscribers could drop their health insurance in the event of there being an increase in premiums of between 1% and 10%. The Health Insurance Authority has confirmed that for the first time in a decade, the number with health insurance will drop below 2 million. Government policies have been responsible for a lot of that but,...
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: The story of Ms Maíria Cahill is one that has generated enormous interest on the island, created a lot of anger and touched many. We have held strong and comprehensive debates in this House on the issue of sex abuse perpetrated by institutions, such as the Catholic Church and others. There was the Ferns inquiry and the Cloyne diocese and Dublin archdiocese reports, and these were...
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: In my view, the issue of Ms Maíria Cahill is similar and merits a debate in the House. Will the Government make time available over the next week or so to facilitate such a debate? On the criminal law (sexual offences) Bill, politicians in Northern Ireland have approved sex buyer laws, that is, laws to deal with those who purchase sex and thereby facilitate the trafficking. We need...
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----in essence, to deal with the trafficking into the country of women who are exploited in brothels and by pimps. The stories have been horrendous. Ruhama, along with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, has led the charge on this issue, and survivors of prostitution continue to make the case for a sex buyer law in this country.
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Can the Taoiseach confirm when that legislation will be introduced into the House because it has been promised by the Government?
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: I do not accept that. I think there has been a cover-up.
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: I make that charge here on the floor of the House.
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: I will not take any more of that stuff from Deputy Adams.
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Kirk was a very liberal Ceann Comhairle.
- Irish Water: Motion [Private Members] (21 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is accountability.