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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is seven years since Fine Gael decided to abolish what had been a successful approach to development in disadvantaged communities in general, but especially in communities hit by drug abuse. The new approach of devolving everything to local authorities has narrowed the work and there are serious signs of a lack of momentum and new pressures in many communities. I would appreciate it if...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is exactly the type of centre that I would have thought-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: If I may just-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: You cannot-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: We have a way of operating here. I think you need to calm down a little.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: I just want to put the final question to the Taoiseach, if I may.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: A minute and a half. People have gone for five.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: Just let me put the last question. I will be finished then.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: Would the Taoiseach agree that the Seán O'Casey community centre should be included in the overall funding resources that the north-east inner city initiative has made available to other groups and companies? I would appreciate it if he looked into it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: It has been quite striking that the Government's response to the Charleton report has focused on the political domain-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----rather than on the shocking-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----campaign of slander against an Irish citizen by the head of our police force. The extraordinary conclusions reached in the Charleton report are quite shattering and go to the core of our justice system. If we are honest, none of us could have comprehended that such a thing could happen. The overwhelming majority of the report focuses on that matter and on the failures of our national...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: Most of the people who are baying at the Opposition today accepted last year that the resignation in question was regrettably necessary. The shambolic manner in which this was treated over four or five weeks is a textbook illustration of how things should not be done. That is why a group was formed to oversee the reform of the Department. At the time, the Taoiseach expressed enormous...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the progress on the recommendations of the Dublin inner city forum. [37668/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Electoral Reform (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: And the United States.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Electoral Reform (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: There is big money there.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Electoral Reform (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: While the Government likes to talk the talk about being modern, its response to this issue has proceeded at a snail's pace. I appreciate the Taoiseach's comments on Deputy James Lawless who has taken a leading role on this overall issue. However, the interdepartmental report includes nothing which could not have been put together over a couple of days by any of the many researchers and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Electoral Reform (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the interdepartmental group on security of Ireland’s electoral process and disinformation co-ordinated by his Department; and if he will further report on the recent launch of the public consultation on the regulation of online political advertising. [40019/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Electoral Reform (16 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to protect Ireland's democratic and electoral process in view of developments in other countries; and if this will require legislation or constitutional change. [41808/18]