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

Micheál Martin: There needs to be proper engagement on these structural reforms, which are serious and deep and which, we have argued for quite some time, are necessary for the future of Europe and in order that Ireland have a clear position on some of these issues. I know we have been asked to pass our ideas on to the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, but some structure should be established within the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The primary reason this issue continues to be raised is that the Taoiseach has continued his policy of refusing to respond to on-topic questions and to deny the reality of serious lapses in what happened with this unit. I have now asked the Taoiseach four times to respond to direct questions about information released by the Secretary General and each time he has ignored the question and...

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: On the scoping inquiry, the Taoiseach might answer on whether it should report to a different Department. That is a separate matter, however, and I will come back to him on that. What is striking in terms of the reforms that have been announced is that the director general of the HSE announced his retirement date months ago. We now know that he will be leaving in eight weeks time. The...

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: It would.

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: To the Taoiseach's Department.

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is in the terms of reference.

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Is there a timeframe?

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The judgment then is to be without a director general.

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The point is that arguably the system did have time to prepare and did not respond initially as it should have to the Vicky Phelan case. That is why we have had these panicked, rushed measures that have not been properly thought through. There are 7,000 women waiting for a callback. That is an appalling number. Proper thought did not go into what type of helpline should be established and...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: In the bubble of Leinster House, we can go in one direction but we must listen to what victims say to us and we must be proportionate. The woman who contacted me asked us to be balanced and proportionate and, above all, to keep her needs as a victim as our number one priority in whatever we do.

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Susan Mitchell of The Sunday Business Postwrote at the weekend that last week was one of the worst in the history of the Irish health service. She was summing up the understandable anger at how Vicky Phelan was treated, the failure to tell women the truth about their misdiagnoses, forcing a sick woman through the courts and questions regarding the quality of our national cervical cancer...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Ar mo shon féin agus ar son mo pháirtí déanaim comhbhrón le clann Monica Barnes as ucht a bás. Is léir gur pholaiteoir den chéad scoth í a bhí dílis dá muintir agus do mhuintir na tíre seo go ginearálta. Bhí dea-thioncar aici ar pholasaithe éagsúla agus chuir sí carn na bpolasaithe sin i bhfeidhm. ...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 93. To ask the Taoiseach if he held meetings while attending the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; and the issues that were discussed. [19619/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 94. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his speech in Leuven. [19621/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 95. To ask the Taoiseach when he last spoke to Prime Minister May; if the framework for the future relationship was discussed; and if she spoke regarding the backstop outlined in the December 2017 agreement and the way in which she referenced same in her speech in the Mansion House, London recently. [19622/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 96. To ask the Taoiseach if he met the Commissioner, Mr. Phil Hogan, when he was in Dublin addressing Seanad Éireann; and if so, the issues that were discussed. [19623/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 97. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to mark the 40th anniversary of Irish troops being deployed to Lebanon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19658/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or officials in his Department met the British Minister for the Cabinet Office, Mr. David Lidington, when he visited Dublin. [19620/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on Brexit negotiations being delayed until October 2018; and the detail of the British red-line issues. [19621/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 107. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it will be October 2018 before a possible deal will be negotiated on Brexit; and the way in which it will be applied to the Border. [19729/18]