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Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (18 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: 204. To ask the Minister for Health when the extension and-or expansion of the children's unit in Cork University Maternity Hospital will be allotted; the stage the planning process is at; when it will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18278/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (18 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: 205. To ask the Minister for Health the capital allocation to Cork University Maternity Hospital for 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18279/19]

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy has changed his story from last week.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: The need to hold an emergency summit of the European Council on the sole topic of how long to extend the period before which the UK will leave the European Union was itself a failure. Six years after Mr. David Cameron began the process leading to a referendum and three years after that referendum, we appear nowhere near resolving the issue of what the UK's relationship will be with its...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Communications (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: I join all those who praised Prime Minister Ardern for her great leadership in the aftermath of the Christchurch atrocity. She made a very powerful statement to the people of New Zealand and to the world about the need for unity against hate and for all of us to stand with minorities who are under attack. The recent spurt of Islamophobic campaigns by politicians in many countries is...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: It means it is a threat to the Good Friday Agreement.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the Northern Ireland Executive with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. May, recently; and his views on whether there will be direct rule in Northern Ireland due to the lack of progress. [16668/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: I have a question.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: I am taking it.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: I accept that. Originally I thought Questions Nos. 1 to 14, inclusive, were grouped together. The Taoiseach did not reply to the specifics of Question No. 6 on whether the implications of direct rule were discussed with the Prime Minister, Mrs. May, in the Taoiseach's recent meetings or conversations with her. He might address it in response to these questions. Did he discuss the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Preparations (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: On a number of recent occasions, I have asked the Taoiseach whether direct discussions have been held with the British Government concerning the possible imposition of direct rule in Northern Ireland, which was threatened as a possible no-deal scenario for the United Kingdom approached. At a time when two of the three strands of the Good Friday Agreement are suspended and the third is...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Preparations (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: No, I am addressing no-deal preparations. The imposition of direct rule was threatened in the context of a no-deal scenario.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Preparations (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: If the Deputy will allow me, I am entitled to ask questions.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Preparations (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach explain what discussions he has held with the British on these matters? What does he intend to do to get the institutions of the agreement re-established? Two years after they collapsed because of a heating scheme, their absence has caused damage to the people of Ireland. I welcome very much what the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Ms Pelosi, said earlier...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is drip-feeding information.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: No one is opposed to it, it is about how it is done.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: One gets the sense the Taoiseach is managing this from a public opinion perspective and from a political perspective. By the way, two of the original bidders did not actually bid in the end; they gave outline indication. It was asserted all along it would be €500 million. Industry sources are saying the cost to build out the network is approximately €1.5 billion. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: We are taking all the risk.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: It is important for the record that there was a subsequent memorandum.