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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday, the Taoiseach said that Deputies should go and look at the updates on the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's website if we want to know what is happening with national development plan, NDP, projects. He said we would find up to the minute figures on the status and cost of all major projects. Unsurprisingly, this turns out not to be true. The only underspends noted on...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met church leaders recently. [5680/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: During the years of progress in securing the end of the illegitimate campaign of violence in the North and the building of a new peaceful model of co-operation on this island, the churches played an absolutely central role, to be fair. This went well beyond the number of now widely and rightly acclaimed clergymen. It really was a consistent approach through the entirety of the leadership of...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: Access to public services is still a major issue for many people across the country. Over half a million people are waiting for hospital appointments and there are 10,000 homeless people, but the waiting list for special needs assessments is particularly damaging for the children on that list. We know that early diagnosis can mean more effective early intervention particularly with...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: The programme for Government reads: "We support the expansion of Local Drug Taskforce projects". Funding was cut in the years up to 2014 and has remained at the same level since. As the Taoiseach knows, the task forces are funded by the Department of Health and the HSE, the budgets of which have increased significantly in that period. However, the same has not applied to the core funding...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: Ba mhaith liom, ar mo shon féin agus ar son Pháirtí Fhianna Fáil, comhbhrón a dhéanamh le clann Creed as ucht bás Donal agus ár mbuíochas a ghabháil leo as ucht an méid a rinne Donal ar son mhuintir na tíre seo le blianta beaga anuas. Níl aon amhras orainn ach gur pholaiteoir den scoth a bhí i nDonal. Fear lách,...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: I know that Donal took to it with great enthusiasm. I know from my own family background that he enjoyed having many engagements with sports people and was very generous in his time with former sports people as well. Of course, his key legacy was his work in laying the groundwork for the national lottery, which has had a huge impact in communities throughout the country, particularly...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Department was part of it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Chief Medical Officer and the Department were involved too.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: Did the CervicalCheck team communicate with the officials?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: I have asked specific questions for some time about the Minister for Health's decision last April to offer a free out-of-cycle smear test to every woman in the country who wanted one and about who advised him on the decision. I have been subject to obfuscation since I first began asking these questions in January. As a result of that decision, CervicalCheck has an enormous backlog of up to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach whether the CervicalCheck team communicated its opposition to someone at a senior level in the Department of Health in advance of the decision. Will he answer that question? The reason the new HPV test is not deliverable is the backlog created by the Minister's decision. Is the Taoiseach comfortable with the Minister's comments in that radio interview? The...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff Remuneration (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the increased number of staff in NAMA that earn more than €100,000 per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8579/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: 131. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she or her officials have discussed or outlined the number of companies that have located here from the UK since Brexit was announced. [8466/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Expenditure (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has discussed removal of the A5 funding with his British counterpart. [8033/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Expenditure (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has discussed removal of the A5 funding with his British counterpart. [8033/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (19 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach will remember that one of the five communication priorities for Government which he announced early last year was the promotion of the national children's hospital. He put in place a special budget in his own Department for this matter. When challenged on this in the Dáil, he repeatedly said that advertising of the children's hospital and the national development plan,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: It is 764 days since Sinn Féin collapsed the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly because of a heating scheme. While the inquiry into that scheme showed that Sinn Féin was more deeply involved than it admits, to the extent that its Minister of Finance took instructions from a secretive internal party structure, many other reasons are now being cited for the refusal to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: I did not say that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: I did not imply it.