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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: That is what the Taoiseach has done.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: There are two further serious reports in the news media today on the continuing saga of the national children's hospital. There is one in the Irish Examiner which is headlined "Secret plan to manage hospital fallout [...]" and another in The Irish Timeswhich is headlined "Children's hospital overrun would have happened regardless [...]". The articles reference a confidential report which...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: 112. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings with the political parties when he visited Belfast on 8 February 2019; the persons that attended; the issues that were discussed; the responses made; and if arrangements have been made to meet again. [7759/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Inquiries (19 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: 295. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the scoping inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied); when a full inquiry will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8282/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Inquiries (19 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: 296. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of actions taken since a Dáil Éireann motion was passed on the death of a person (details supplied) in June 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8283/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Preparations (14 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance if he and his officials are preparing for soft technology options on the Border in view of the rules of the Single Market and in the event of there being a no-deal Brexit. [7052/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Brexit Preparations (14 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: 223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to plans to extend alternative routes for businesses in counties Cork and Kerry to prevent travel through the UK and instead provide direct routes to France by air or by sea; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7465/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Brexit Preparations (14 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: 224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has undertaken a review of alternative routes other than from Dublin and Rosslare for businesses to enter the EU market directly in the event of there being a hard Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7467/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Preparations (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his comprehensive reply. During yesterday's questions, he was prepared to indicate he has no idea how many businesses will be Brexit-ready on 29 March, next month. Given the scale of the threat posed by Brexit, most people were working under the assumption that the Taoiseach would at least have monthly monitoring of readiness and a list of companies, or at least...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Government did not bring it in a carbon charge. Fine Gael backbenchers ensured it did not.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: I have some, but not for anybody in the House.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday's belated apology from the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, was accompanied by a list of projects for this year that will be delayed. The Taoiseach must admit that it is beyond bizarre that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform claimed that the overspend is serious but that no project anywhere will be cut. Is this the first time in recorded history where €400...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: No, they will not be started in a decade. Perhaps they will, but I do not know. Can the Taoiseach be specific? If he can be specific about ten years of promises when launching the NDP, can he now be specific about the huge hole in the NDP which the overspend represents? The fact that the single largest project impacted by the cuts this year is the A5 has caused anger and concern, not just...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: Those agencies never anticipated the Minister's decision of last April to add 90,000 tests. Let us be fair to the officials and the CervicalCheck team.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: That was said at the committee this morning.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: Behind the report from Senator McDowell's group, there is a clear and hard reality which it points to in its statement. That reality is that there is effectively no way of preparing such a massive scheme for a new national and international election during the lifetime of the Oireachtas. That is clear. From a practical perspective, it seems that the next general election will involve the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: We have no work done. There is no work done.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Government announced that the new HPV test - I may have inadvertently called it the "HPV vaccine" earlier - would be available last September, and that the programme relating to it would eventually replace the current programme. Unfortunately, this target was missed and it was then set for January. However, January has come and gone and it has not been announced. There does not appear...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach gave a date last September.

Death of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: Ar mo shon féin agus ar son pháirtí Fhianna Fáil, ba mhaith liom comhbhrón a dhéanamh le clanna Brendan McGahon agus Seymour Crawford. Ar dtús, maidir le Brendan McGahon, ba mhaith liom a rá gur polaiteoir agus fear lách, gnóthach, neamhspleách agus cróga a bhí ann. Is léir go raibh sé macánta agus bhí...