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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Preparations (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his comprehensive reply. During yesterday's questions, he was prepared to indicate he has no idea how many businesses will be Brexit-ready on 29 March, next month. Given the scale of the threat posed by Brexit, most people were working under the assumption that the Taoiseach would at least have monthly monitoring of readiness and a list of companies, or at least...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Government did not bring it in a carbon charge. Fine Gael backbenchers ensured it did not.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: I have some, but not for anybody in the House.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday's belated apology from the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, was accompanied by a list of projects for this year that will be delayed. The Taoiseach must admit that it is beyond bizarre that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform claimed that the overspend is serious but that no project anywhere will be cut. Is this the first time in recorded history where €400...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: No, they will not be started in a decade. Perhaps they will, but I do not know. Can the Taoiseach be specific? If he can be specific about ten years of promises when launching the NDP, can he now be specific about the huge hole in the NDP which the overspend represents? The fact that the single largest project impacted by the cuts this year is the A5 has caused anger and concern, not just...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: Those agencies never anticipated the Minister's decision of last April to add 90,000 tests. Let us be fair to the officials and the CervicalCheck team.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: That was said at the committee this morning.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: Behind the report from Senator McDowell's group, there is a clear and hard reality which it points to in its statement. That reality is that there is effectively no way of preparing such a massive scheme for a new national and international election during the lifetime of the Oireachtas. That is clear. From a practical perspective, it seems that the next general election will involve the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: We have no work done. There is no work done.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Government announced that the new HPV test - I may have inadvertently called it the "HPV vaccine" earlier - would be available last September, and that the programme relating to it would eventually replace the current programme. Unfortunately, this target was missed and it was then set for January. However, January has come and gone and it has not been announced. There does not appear...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach gave a date last September.

Death of Former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: Ar mo shon féin agus ar son pháirtí Fhianna Fáil, ba mhaith liom comhbhrón a dhéanamh le clanna Brendan McGahon agus Seymour Crawford. Ar dtús, maidir le Brendan McGahon, ba mhaith liom a rá gur polaiteoir agus fear lách, gnóthach, neamhspleách agus cróga a bhí ann. Is léir go raibh sé macánta agus bhí...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Chief Medical Officer did not recommend it. The Minister should show me the note.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Minister should show me anybody in the CervicalCheck team who recommended it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: The CervicalCheck team is appalled by the decision.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: Many people in the programme are. The only reason they are worried is out of concern for the programme. They believe the programme has been damaged. I agree with the Taoiseach it has been very effective but this decision damaged it. We should learn lessons from it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: Today we learned that the CervicalCheck screening service has a backlog of approximately 78,000 slides to examine and that it is taking up to 27 weeks to provide reports on those tests. It is taking laboratories an average of 93 days to report on smear checks. Ms Anne O'Connor, the interim director general of the HSE, stated to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health this morning that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: The core lesson that should be learned is that politics does not make for good clinical decision making. It is a very worrying development that a gynaecologist has stated that tests have expired and that a diagnosis has been made in the case of a woman whose test results were delayed. The laboratories have written to the Minister to state that they cannot sustain this level of testing. ...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: At the meeting of the health committee this morning, Deputy Donnelly asked whether it would be introduced in 2019. The witnesses were unable to provide any commitment or date in that regard. The fundamental point is that €10 million was spent on the free test. There was no clinical rationale for it at all. The Minister said the assistant secretary and the Chief Medical Officer did...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Staff Data (13 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: 168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are climate change experts in his Department. [7056/19]