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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Council Meetings (26 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: 94. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the EU colleagues he has spoken to prior to the June 2018 EU Council meeting; and if they support Ireland in relation to the December 2017 agreement. [27688/18]

Address by Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (21 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: President Juncker, on behalf of the Fianna Fáil Party and on my own behalf, I am very pleased to join with the Ceann Comhairle and the Taoiseach in welcoming you to the Oireachtas and to thank you for your openness to holding this dialogue with us. We remember many years of co-operation with President Juncker both in the European Council and in ECOFIN.  While we were not always on...

Seanad: Address by Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (21 Jun 2018)

Micheál Martin: President Juncker, on behalf of the Fianna Fáil Party and on my own behalf, I am very pleased to join with the Ceann Comhairle and the Taoiseach in welcoming you to the Oireachtas and to thank you for your openness to holding this dialogue with us. We remember many years of co-operation with President Juncker both in the European Council and in ECOFIN.  While we were not always on...

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

Micheál Martin: On a point of information, my comments were not about Féile an Phobail.

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

Micheál Martin: My comments were about the Taoiseach's speech, which I did not get a copy of.

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...