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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 328. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the assessment of the capacity of laboratories here to perform cervical screening; when this assessment will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51641/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 329. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding to be allocated to laboratories here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51642/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 330. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the legislation requiring mandatory disclosure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51643/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Products (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 331. To ask the Minister for Health his plans and implementation times for the introduction of a managed access programme for the provision of Pembro; the number of women who will receive it in year one, two and so on; if there is a specific line of funding for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51644/18]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: There is not much to be achieved by trying to discern any final outcome from the chaos in Westminster at the moment. There are many different groups and constantly shifting coalitions. For example, the vote yesterday on the Dominic Grieve amendment was interesting. It saw European-positive Tory MPs, who will mostly support the deal, vote with the UK Opposition while the deal's most bitter...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: That is politics. It is not the UK Parliament.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: I did not say that. Stop the raiméis.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Data (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: That is a big problem with the Government.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): British-Irish Council (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: The BIC meeting last month was, unfortunately, a reminder of just how bad things are in the operations of the agreed structures of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Yet again there was no democratic voice for Northern Ireland at the meeting because of the continued suspension of the Assembly and Executive. We were then told that Sinn Féin's concerns about the operations of a heating...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Data (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: I remind Deputy McDonald that this jurisdiction has a Government and that this House facilitated its formation unlike Northern Ireland, which has been without a government for two years, a record length of time. The people of Northern Ireland have no voice in any democratic forum because of very wrong decisions that were taken. The Taoiseach will remember that he repeatedly said that...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: Many years ago, a former Minister, Michael Woods, engaged with an iconic member of the credit union movement, Brendan Roche of the Lough Credit Union in Cork. Out of this evolved the Money Advice & Budgeting Service, MABS. Essentially, that credit union, with the then Department of Social Welfare, put together a financial proposal and vehicle to allow people in difficult financial...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: No-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: About 3,000 loans were given out.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: For example, Drogheda does not have any.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: Was that the Taoiseach's Government also?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: The rent pressure zones have caused evictions and exacerbated the position for many families.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: The housing crisis continues to deepen and to impact on many people across the country. The annual report from Threshold published today makes for depressing reading and illustrates how existing Government policies and initiatives have failed, particularly in relation to security of tenure, substandard accommodation and ongoing homelessness. Threshold has seen a dramatic rise in the number...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: That sums it up. The legislation will be published next Tuesday, a week before the recess. This report relates to 2017 when 32% of calls to Threshold were from people being evicted, a figure that increased to 40% in the first half of 2018. The lack of urgency is incredible. The Taoiseach mentioned all the apartments that are being built. I invite him to go around Dublin where...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 145. To ask the Taoiseach the progress his Department has achieved in reducing its carbon footprint. [51138/18]