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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]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (24 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: 57. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the EU ministers discussed extending the longer period of transition by consent instead of a hard Brexit on 31 October 2019. [38266/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (24 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: 58. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there have been written proposals circulated from Prime Minister Johnson in relation to alternatives to a disorderly Brexit. [38267/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (24 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: 59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the request made by the Prime Minister of Finland to the UK to submit its written alternatives on Brexit to the European Commission and Council by 30 September 2019; if the matter was discussed with him beforehand; and his views on same. [38842/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (24 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a guidance issued by the Revenue Commissioners in May 2007 that advised that food supplements were allowed to be supplied at a zero VAT rate as they were defined under the Value-Added Tax Act 1972. [38222/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Eurozone Issues (24 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the suggestions by his EU colleagues to revamp the eurozone fiscal rules; if the matter is being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38292/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Meetings (24 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his meeting with the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer; the issues that were discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38836/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Duty Free Sales (24 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: 120. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has discussed the introduction of duty free in the event of a hard Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38837/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (24 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of capital projects planned to provide extra places in schools for pupils with special needs; if the waiting times for such projects are double the waiting time for building mainstream schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38838/19]