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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Communications (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach started the development of the Luas - that is a new one.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Communications (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: The result of the recent Australian elections appear to have surprised everyone, including the winners. Ireland and Australia have always had a very positive relationship and, hopefully, this will continue. Of course, we disagree on many substantive policy issues, with climate change now being the most significant. In the list Deputy Howlin read out earlier, I did not hear that...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Communications (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Why could they not have done it from Government Buildings?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Was the advisory council's report a surprise? That is what I asked.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Was that analysis carried out by the Department of the Taoiseach?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Government policy.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Central to the Department of the Taoiseach's statement of strategy is the support of an active system of Cabinet committees. In spite of this, the Taoiseach has said that he prefers to bring most issues directly to Cabinet for discussion. The net impact of this is that less time is spent on the issues involved, detailed preparatory papers are not circulated and responsible officials are not...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Most Members will have much sympathy for the British Labour Party in trying to block or reverse Brexit. Notwithstanding what has been said here, however, the reality is that the British Labour Party's principal tactic so far has been to block the withdrawal agreement. It is a remarkable fact that each of the Tories campaigning to project their Brexit purity last night has voted for the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the annual strategy update report in his Department. [24320/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I echo what Deputy Howlin stated earlier. Today, reports online, on every radio station and in every newspaper are about how easy it is for children and teenagers to access pornography. Many parents are wondering how best to protect our children and while no one can protect them 100%, it is certainly time the legislators caught up and addressed this issue. The Joint Committee on Children...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: We have done it plenty of times.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: There was the Land Development Agency.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: There was no legislation.

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

Micheál Martin: I get a sense that the Government does not fully appreciate the terrible impact that tomorrow's strike by healthcare assistants, laboratory and theatre operatives and chefs will have on our health services. These workers are the cogs and wheels of our health service. It cannot operate without them. Patients will be discommoded. Elective admissions will be cancelled. Necessary X-rays,...

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

Micheál Martin: I remind the Taoiseach that Fianna Fáil has facilitated the public service pay agreements under the confidence and supply agreement. It also facilitated the last three budgets and in the context of Brexit has fulfilled its parliamentary duties in a constructive and responsible manner.

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

Micheál Martin: Those are the facts. When it comes to the health service workers, the Taoiseach talks about the other side but he is the other side because it was the Government which confirmed that it would try to pay this out in 2021. This has been going on since 2015. We are not responsible for how the Government deals with the wider issues and the mismanagement of big projects such as broadband and...

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

Micheál Martin: It depends what it gets asked.

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

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer the question.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his officials have received correspondence from an organisation (details supplied) regarding spiralling insurance costs; the actions he is taking to address the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25728/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Protected Disclosures Data (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 81. To ask the Taoiseach the number of whistleblower complaints in his Department since the legislation was introduced in 2015. [25666/19]