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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: That is not the core of the issue.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: I believe that the health expenditure increase is €665 million, based on the Minister for Finance's comments yesterday when he mentioned that the €1.15 billion figure includes €335 million of a supplementary being brought into next year. We will park that for a moment. There has always been a health-based approach. The whole idea of the drug task forces was about a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The outturn is the key.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: It depends on how it is measured.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should go easy on the €1.15 billion. He is giving false impressions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: What about when the Taoiseach was Minister for Health?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach provide a written note on the matter?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Was that not the whole purpose of the Act?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The tobacco industry is one of the most evil industries that has ever existed, although it works within a legal framework. It has consigned millions of people to their deaths, destroyed millions of lives and injured and maimed millions more. It infamously targeted children to get them addicted young and secure customers for life. It suppressed for decades knowledge and research that proved...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: This epidemic developed from 2007 onwards. The fact that the tobacco industry is involved should send a warning signal to all concerned. There is terrible complacency about this issue. I do not know how these devices ever got onto the market without some controls. Young people are being targeted with the same strategies as previously, using flavoured vaping devices to get children on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 74. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is finalising plans to fill vacancies in the Judiciary; his views on the fact that the delay in doing same is causing cases to be delayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41373/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met or spoken with the DUP leader, Ms Arlene Foster, since 2 October 2019; if the EU response to alternative suggestion by the UK Government to the backstop was discussed; and if the Northern Assembly will be restored before 21 October 2019. [40812/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the reaction from business groups in Northern Ireland to the latest suggestions from the UK Government on custom checks with the leader of the DUP; and her reaction to same. [40813/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee which covers policy on direct provision centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40819/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 9. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to or met with his UK counterparts or other EU counterparts since the UK Government submitted its written alternative suggestions to the backstop to the EU; his views on whether it is a final offer; and his further views on whether the Prime Minister is determined to scrap the backstop. [40811/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an extension will be applied for and granted to the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union if it is not possible to negotiate or agree a Brexit deal at the EU Council meeting in October 2019 in view of the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019 (details supplied); and if the EU is planning for all scenarios. [40814/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 11. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the written alternative arrangements from the UK relating to the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union are a breach of the agreement between the two Governments in December 2017; and his views on whether the Good Friday Agreement is also breached by same. [40815/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Controls (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 27. To ask the Minister for Finance if officials have been requested to assess the technological options for the Border separate to and in the absence of custom checks for certain goods. [40816/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Paediatric Services (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 213. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 29 May 2019, if the locum diabetic paediatrician planned for recruitment for July 2019 has commenced; if not, the reason therefore; when the matter will be corrected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40627/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 214. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the plan by the HSE for the transfer of 100 adolescents to adult diabetic services in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40628/19]