Results 20,361-20,380 of 50,453 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Cross-Border Co-operation (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the possibility of increased crime, smuggling and fraud in Northern Ireland and at the Border region was discussed during his most recent meeting with his UK counterparts; and his plans to deal with same. [38505/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the families in direct provision centres are there on a voluntary basis in view of the comments by the Taoiseach on a television programme (details supplied); if many have applied for HAP to allow them to be accommodated outside centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39270/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 243. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there has been a reduction in the number of adults or families that live in direct provision centres since the rules to allow them to work have been changed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39271/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications Data (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 244. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average length of time it takes to review and assess asylum applications for those families being accommodated in direct provision centres on a long-term basis; if changes have been introduced to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39272/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 245. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of legal cases that are ongoing for those families that are still being accommodated in direct provision centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39273/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 309. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for approval for new drugs; the way in which this compares to other OECD or EU countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39267/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 330. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the number of inspections that EHOs have undertaken of service stations; if they are inspected as regularly as restaurants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39356/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 451. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the commitments made by Ireland on climate change at the UN Climate Action Summit. [39631/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 649. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the role her Department has in the allocation of grant assistance to a centre (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39544/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: I raise the issue of junior cycle history with the Minister, in particular, retaining it as a core compulsory subject. I speak with a degree of knowledge. In 1997 or 1998, prior to my becoming Minister for Education, an attempt was made to remove history as a compulsory subject. I vetoed it on that occasion and stopped it. I am not normally one for interfering and understand the National...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: The savage assault last week on Quinn Industrial Holdings executive, Mr. Kevin Lunney, has both shocked and angered people across the country. The savagery and inhumanity involved reveals the continued existence of a minority criminal underground across the Border region that acts with impunity beyond the law, undermining the rights of the vast majority of decent and law-abiding citizens in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: It needs teeth and resources. Task forces will not cut it any more. People have had enough and they want to go about their daily lives in business and their jobs without this threat, ongoing fear and intimidation. It has gone on for far too long. Will the Government give consideration to the establishment of such an agency?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: No, not a task force.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: In 2015, Deputy Brendan Smith produced legislation with others in this House to set up a statutory agency drawing from the Revenue Commissioners, the police and environmental organisations to deal with the corrosive impact of fuel laundering and cigarette smuggling, which has been felt in the Border region for so long. The Government at the time opposed the legislation but took elements of it...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: On the day when thousands of children were marching nationally on climate change and the need to address it, local ecologists in the Tallaght area discovered that South Dublin County Council had essentially landfilled acres of reserve and habitat in Sean Walsh Memorial Park in Tallaght, destroying literally thousands of microorganisms and habitats. Local ecologist Mr. Collie Ennis, a member...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: Will the Minister come back to me with a written report?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: Obviously, the Minister has a lot on his plate and is probably not up to speed on the wider debate on this issue which I raised in the House in June. It has also been raised by Deputy James Browne and others. The reality is that there is apartheid in terms of air quality in this country because the smoky coal ban has not been extended nationwide, in spite of the promises of former...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: Clean air is a vital public health interest and it is inseparable from the challenge of climate change. In 1990, while Minister of State, Mary Harney introduced a ban on smoky coal use within the Dublin region. This decision had a very radical and beneficial impact on public health and the environment. It saved many lives and improved the quality of health in others, as well as the quality...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: 43. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Mrs. Arlene Foster of the DUP and the topics discussed relating to Brexit and the Northern Ireland Assembly. [38841/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: 44. To ask the Taoiseach the way in which he responded to Mrs. Arlene Foster regarding her comments on the constitutional position of unionism when they met to discuss Brexit on 18 September 2019. [38843/19]