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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (9 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: That is what the Taoiseach said would be done originally.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he met the DUP and Sinn Féin leaders when he visited Northern Ireland on 30 April 2018; and the issues they discussed. [19987/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (9 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Yesterday, he again refused to acknowledge, let alone answer, some direct questions put to him about major departmental initiatives since he became Taoiseach. Other Members have been accused of filibustering in respect of legislative measures but the record shows that the Taoiseach is filibustering in the context of replying to questions in order to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (9 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Having seen close at hand the work of our diplomats and international agencies, I have always supported the significant extension of our international reach and, indeed, during more straitened times, managed to do so as Minister for Foreign Affairs. When we open new embassies and representative offices, there is a direct and continuous benefit to Ireland...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (9 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach further to the reply from the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 25 January 2018, the status of the proposal to double Ireland's global footprint by 2025. [19091/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Given the condition of the roads he would probably need a pilot.

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State should be restraining himself.

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I think we should respect the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am sitting next to one of the most cerebral Members from Kerry, Deputy Brassil. He never causes any difficulty.

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I asked earlier about the commencement of the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015, particularly in respect of section 32B. I think the Taoiseach indicated that the Legal Services Regulatory Authority has not been established but it has been established. It was announced to have been established in 2016. Section 32B is not dependent on the authority. The section concerns how to deal with...

Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: What body?

Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: They are not. That was in December 2015. We can keep announcing and passing laws in the Chamber and saying that we will do great things next month or the month after. When we pass such laws, however, they are not commenced and nothing changes. We need a satisfactory explanation as to why section 32(b) of that Act, which was designed to prevent the trauma people have experienced in taking...

Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is not happening.

Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The authority is not required for the purposes of section 32(b).

Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The authority is not required for the purposes of section 32(b).

Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Further revelations are emerging in respect of the treatment of women whose smear tests by CervicalCheck - and their treatment at the hands of our health services and legal system - were wrong. We now know that three women at the centre of ten outstanding legal cases against the State relating to incorrect smear tests have died. The State Claims Agency was apparently told by CervicalCheck...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The entirely correct focus of national priorities in the Brexit negotiations has been on protecting the progress obtained by the Good Friday Agreement. It is the basis for most of the direct leverage we are using, so the ongoing crisis in the institutions of the agreement would now appear to be at an emergency level. There is also the fact that no proposal for regulatory alignment appears...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: -----dialogue and it seems to me to be a point which has been missed. How do we achieve regulatory alignment if we do not have institutions, an Executive and an Assembly in the North to facilitate regulatory alignment in the context of Brexit? In this respect it seems surprising that the process in the North appears to be stuck in limbo, with no attempts being made to change the dynamic or...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if Prime Minister May outlined her views on a workable backstop when he last spoke with her. [19989/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Leuven speech was interesting in that its advance billing to the media as setting out some sort of vision about the future of the European Union was classic hype. It was a standard recitation of broad generalities and it is disappointing that the Taoiseach did not go into specifics about the major structural discussions currently under way within the Union. For example, it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: That might be described as the graveyard shift. It is hardly an opportunity for substantive debate.