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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (14 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: 111. To ask the Minister for Finance if Ireland’s corporation tax rate was discussed at the ECOFIN meeting in May 2019. [20548/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Redeployment (14 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civil servants within his Department on a transfer request list; and his views on whether civil servants should work closer to their homes if possible. [20425/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Applications (14 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: 220. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the processing times for applications under the immigrant investor programmes; if there are undue delays; if so, if he has had these examined; the actions he is taking to address the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20528/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: European Council Meetings (14 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: 390. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if coal mining was discussed at a recent European Council meeting. [20561/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (14 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: 419. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on his announcement of the national broadband plan on 7 May 2019. [20563/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: It is not an estimate; it is a benchmark figure as per the public spending code.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: No, that is not what it says.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: Has the Minister read it?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: That is not what is stated in the memo at all. It is completely opposite.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: It was a benchmark figure.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: Under the public spending code, the benchmark figure is the basis for determining value for money for any major project. Reading through the memo from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, it is very clear that they raise serious questions about the public spending code being breached by the Department in respect...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: Why?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: What is it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: Rural Ireland has been waiting for a long time for high-speed connectivity. Fine Gael promised it in 2012. Every single promise it made was delayed and not honoured. There was an alternative in the document. The Minister is wrong to say he considered every alternative. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform said very clearly that plan B would be:(ii) Establishing a State entity...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform knows all about state aid rules and it is saying that there is an established mechanism by which the State could have done this differently and more effectively for the people in rural Ireland and for the taxpayer. How much equity is the remaining consortium putting up? There is no other bidder.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: It is not commercially sensitive material. Why is the Secretary General going out of his way to say the State is taking all the risk and that the remaining bidder is only putting up so much? How much is that so much?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: Is there a problem with the financial standing of the company? Has the company the wherewithal to take sufficient risk upfront in the early stages of this project? Why is the State taking almost 90% of it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Minister said all along he could not do that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Minister said he could not make another contract under State aid rules.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: I have in my hands the massive bundle of documentation sent to us at 1.55 p.m. today about the national broadband plan. That illustrates the sharp practice of Government in its management and handling of this project from the start and its attempts to spin its way out of any serious questions or accountability about the project itself. None of this was produced yesterday. Very little of...