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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 286. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress her Department has achieved in reducing its carbon footprint; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51125/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 291. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress his Department has achieved in reducing its carbon footprint; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51137/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress her Department has achieved in reducing its carbon footprint; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51130/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress his Department has achieved in reducing its carbon footprint; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51134/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Constitutional Amendments (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the forthcoming referenda planned by the Government. [50865/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 318. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress her Department has achieved in reducing its carbon footprint; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51127/18]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: Is this amendment not consequential on amendment No. 43?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the role of his Department in Brexit preparedness. [47123/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he and his officials are planning for the worst-case scenario in the event of the draft withdrawal treaty being rejected by the UK Parliament. [48377/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. The ongoing chaos in Westminster is a reminder to us all that the default position under UK law is that Britain will leave the EU in 115 days' time. The withdrawal agreement may somehow be passed, there may be an extension of the Article 50 process or there may even be a new referendum, but the default position is that unless a majority can be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is in the protocols.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War in Paris. [48113/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: The 100th anniversary of the armistice ending the First World War was an important moment for remembering a war that still has much to teach us. In the significant amount of scholarship published in recent years, the consensus points to it being a war that was far from inevitable. It followed an extended period of peace and growth in Europe and there was no compelling reason for war, even...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: I was recently at an event marking the contribution of Éamon de Valera to Irish parliamentary tradition. In fairness to him, he did a great deal of work in reforming the Seanad and giving it constitutional provision in the 1937 Constitution. More than that, he removed from the then Dáil the right to change the Constitution by itself, which was a remarkable giving up of power for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: Which referendum?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: That is right.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: It does.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: Do the Taoiseach's reservations inform the lack of enthusiasm of the Government members of the committee?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: Those members do not attend, apparently.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (4 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: I do not think it was the successive Oireachtais that were responsible.