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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: There is always an evidence base.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: That is not true.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should not be so partisan in his comments. That was a planning issue.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if climate change is covered by Cabinet committees he attends. [43226/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: I thought that was covered by the previous question. That said, it gives me the opportunity to go back to the Taoiseach on the issue of electric vehicles. The Taoiseach is not facing up to the reality of the points that I and most people are making. No one is criticising ambition, but there is a responsibility to ground whatever proposals we are making in some framework of reality. No one...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: With regard to the cabinet committee dealing with infrastructure, the cost of many projects is now significantly ahead of what was stated when the current national development plan was prepared. For example, today's newspapers report that a review of water projects indicates that costs are running, on average, 15% ahead of what was previously stated. Some projects are below budget but the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Too late. Deputy Boyd Barrett should have kept his eye on the ball.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: First, I do not intend to query the Ceann Comhairle's ruling, or to undermine it, but I would have to say that I share considerable sympathy with what Deputy Boyd Barrett has said and with the fact that an entire Private Members' motion on a subject that has been a matter of debate here for quite some time is being ruled out. The case is that the Government has not treated the House with...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: That was never the intent of the money message. The Ceann Comhairle referenced the report of the reform committee. This has been going on for quite some time. I would have thought that would have been published a long time ago. I believe the best way to change Standing Orders is through the various parties working together to try to get consensus on Standing Orders, not by mere resolution...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: The money message has been abused. Of that, there is no doubt. The reason we are at this current impasse is because of the Government's abuse of the money message and the failure to bring forward earlier the recommendations from the reform commission.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Since April there has been a moratorium.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Even after recruitment? Even after holding competitions?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: People have lost private sector jobs on foot of being promised a post by the HSE.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: I equally assert and put it to the Taoiseach that we must take the multi-agency approach. I remember when the late Ms Veronica Guerin was murdered, it was the catalyst for the establishment of the Criminal Assets Bureau and it had a very significant impact on the criminals at the time. It worked as it was a no holds barred approach to taking the criminals out of circulation and not being in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: We proposed it two years ago.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: We have all been appalled at the horrific violence and threats meted out to the staff and directors of Quinn Industrial Holdings in Cavan and at the barbaric, professional kidnapping and assault on Kevin Lunney. At the weekend, one of the directors of Quinn Industrial Holdings, John McCartin, gave a wide-ranging interview to John Lee in the Irish Mail on Sunday. What Mr. McCartin had to say...

Death of Mr. Gay Byrne: Expressions of Sympathy (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Ar dtús báire ba mhaith liom, ar mo shon féin agus ar son Pháirtí Fhianna Fáil, comhbhrón a dhéanamh le Kathleen, Suzy, Crona agus clann Gay Byrne ar ócáid a bháis. Thug sé spás agus deis do chosmhuintir na tíre a gcuid tuairimí a phlé. Bhí tionchar faoi leith aige ar dhul chun cinn na tíre. Bhí...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: EU Meetings (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: 72. To ask the Taoiseach if Israel and Palestine was discussed at the most recent EU Council meeting. [45244/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Brexit Preparations (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: 80. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for an economic impact assessment of the current withdrawal treaty on trade and other economic metrics under the auspices of his Department and agencies under his remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44272/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (5 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: 100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken with his French counterpart in relation to his initial comments regarding his reluctance to the flex-tension on the Brexit date. [44490/19]