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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is throwing the kitchen sink at everything.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee F, national security, last met. [21781/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: The brief visit of President Trump next month appears to have been confirmed this morning. I have been very clear in my party's attitude to President Trump and his policies. However, the US is a country with which we have strong relations and connections. It is correct for the Taoiseach to meet him should President Trump wish to visit here. I find it ironic that people who have no trouble...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. In recent months, it has become clear that the system of Cabinet committees has been almost completely sidelined. Even on vital issues such as health and housing, the relevant committees meet infrequently. The Taoiseach has justified this by saying that he prefers to have discussions at Cabinet level. In doing this, he has cut out the entire tier of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: It is over a year since the CervicalCheck scandal was made public following the case that Vicky Phelan took to the High Court. Two significant commitments were given by the Government at the time - to set up a CervicalCheck tribunal and to introduce a patient safety Bill that would provide for mandatory open disclosure. The general scheme of the tribunal Bill was published this month, but...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: It has nothing to do with Sláintecare.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: Thanks be to God the Government took Fianna Fáil's proposal.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: The National Treatment Purchase Fund.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: This is all very unsatisfactory. All of this has all been dragged from the Taoiseach over the past number of weeks and he has been less than transparent on it. He cannot go on being as detached as he is. A former Minister who was responsible for this project and this tender met the preferred bidder on a number of occasions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: We were led to believe they were all innocent dinners or personal lunches, but they were not. The Taoiseach needs to come off it. He cannot stand up here as Taoiseach of this country and say that no one in the current Government is involved. For God's sake, Deputy Naughten was a former Minister in the Taoiseach's Government, and the Taoiseach still depends on him for support. David...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Minister's Department toldThe Sunday Timestwo weeks ago in two series of articles that McCourt Global was the financial underpinner of this project, but McCourt Global has now disappeared. The Government is confusing the picture deliberately at this stage. What is the Taoiseach hiding in respect of the relationships between GMC, Tetrad, and McCourt Global? He said, and he may correct...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: GMC is putting in no money, so is Tetrad putting in the equity? This is a massive revelation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: Is Tetrad the new preferred bidder? We have been misled all along the way.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is now saying for the first time since this was announced that Tetrad is putting in the equity, not GMC.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach called it a conspiracy theory when I spoke to him the night before Deputy Naughten resigned, but the Deputy resigned 24 hours later.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: I wish to be associated with you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, in terms of the sad passing of the former Deputy, Micheál Lynch, with whom I served for a brief period in the House. He was an outstanding Deputy and a great cultural man and musician. I know the people of Oldcastle and his family will be grieving today at the loss of such a wonderful and warm person. There has been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: Frank McCourt was at that meeting. The former Minister, Deputy Naughten, had to resign. He has been less than forthcoming. He has gone silent. He is not available to comment on this. I put it to the Taoiseach that it is important for him to talk to the former Minister and get him to give a comprehensive and transparent statement in terms of all of these meetings. The Taoiseach might...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the corporation tax rate here; and if his EU counterparts have discussed same with him recently particularly in view of comments from the EU Commission on having a floor on same across the EU. [22085/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: 167. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a MRI scanner (details supplied) is still lying idle after two years. [22280/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (22 May 2019)

Micheál Martin: 171. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his officials are involved in climate change initiatives. [22084/19]