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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: I think the Taoiseach will say anything at any time when it suits.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: How could they, if they do not have the money?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Government's decision to delay the implementation plan for Sláintecare is deeply cynical. The Government wanted to avoid a winter crisis last year but more importantly, it wanted to avoid the Estimates and the provision that would have been necessary for the establishment of an office, the development of an implementation plan, the changes to budgets and so on. This was all...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: Normally, all the Taoiseach's speeches are available.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: What about the narrative on the North?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: Are you dense? And you are not.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: He understood it all right.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Belfast; the meetings that he attended; and the issues that were discussed. [25651/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the opening of the West Belfast festival. [25653/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I welcome the return to a policy of regular visits to Northern Ireland by taoisigh. The Taoiseach, however, would be well advised to understand that the visit two weeks ago was not nearly as historic as he seems to be believe. It is a decade since Uachtarán na hÉireann visited the Orange Order and there has been a 12 July event in Áras an...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Education for Persons with Special Education Needs Act 2004 was passed through this House in 2004 and quite a significant number of sections have not yet been commenced, sections which deal with the rights and entitlements of children in terms of their entitlement to an education assessment for example, the development of a statutory individual education plan, the delivery of detailed...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: I am waiting.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: Who was in the previous Government?

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: I pay tribute to the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, for its hard-hitting and uncompromising report on Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, set up by the Government four years ago. Its conclusions, which follow the investigation which was necessitated by the false allegations pertaining to Maurice McCabe, are serious and damning and call for a fundamental review of the agency...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: I could believe what the Taoiseach has just said if it were not for the record over recent years. Unfortunately, this is not the first we have heard of this issue. For example, HIQA conducted 12 inspections of Tusla child protection and welfare services between 2014 and 2016 and exactly the same issues arose in those reports, so much so that HIQA in 2015 reviewed the governance arrangements...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is not working.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: 98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he met Prince Charles when he visited Ireland; and if so, the issues that were discussed. [26879/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Consultation Process (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: 114. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the commitment in A Programme for A Partnership Government on providing an accessible portal to provide the public information regarding consultations in relation to events occurring in their communities. [26884/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Citizens Assembly (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the outstanding recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly. [26883/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Process (20 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: 147. To ask the Minister for Health if he expects the abortion Bill following the May referendum on the eighth amendment to go through Second Stage before the summer recess. [26880/18]