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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Is this a policy matter?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: It is less than transparent.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: He should do it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: We did it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Some 80% of it is banned.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I was being provoked by the Minister.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Is there an actual challenge?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Subject to the change.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: The second Scally report has been published and should be debated in the House. I ask the Business Committee to consider, and the Government to commit to, a debate on the report and an assessment of the recommendations of the first report, particularly the legislative proposals arising from it. There is still an enormous backlog of women awaiting results. That unacceptable situation was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I asked about banning smoky coal.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I ask that consideration be given by the Business Committee within the week to a special debate on the home care issue. The Taoiseach's earlier replies seemed to indicate a lack of understanding as to what is going on when one drills into the figures. I instance the Tyco ruling of the European Court of Justice. According to the Taoiseach, the programme for Government allows a million extra...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Before the local elections.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is not drilling down into those figures. There is a story behind them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I find that response pathetic and incredibly weak. The ban on smoky coals was introduced in this city nearly 30 years ago. Thirty years later, the Taoiseach is saying that the Government cannot do the remaining 20% because the coal firms have said they will take legal action. The smoking ban would never have been introduced had we been afraid of the threat of big tobacco coming after us...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: That threat was there all the time, but we went ahead. The bottom line is that, for any Government, public health is number one. Where the evidence is demonstrable in terms of the improvement in air quality and in improving people's lives where respiratory diseases and cancer, in particular lung cancer, are concerned, there is no argument. This Government should have taken them on without...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: He was followed by another Minister, Deputy Naughten, confirming to the Dáil in April 2018 that a ban would come into effect incrementally. In 2019, the Minister, Deputy Bruton, has deferred. Has the Government not been considering the ban for the past six years? Announcements from the Government mean nothing. When the Dáil declared a climate emergency, the Taoiseach stated that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: We knew that there was a threat all the time. We were not fazed by it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Surely that means that-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: But this ban was introduced 30 years ago.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Two minutes ago, the Taoiseach said that the Government could not legally do it.