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

Micheál Martin: 104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Mr. Michel Barnier elaborated on the scope of the alignment he referred to in his speech in the context of the Border when they met on 30 April 2018. [19988/18]

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

Micheál Martin: 108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he spoke with Mr. Michel Barnier regarding the way in which total alignment would work after Brexit in March 2019. [19731/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings; and if he or his officials have held meetings recently on the matter. [19990/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) which provides special services for autistic children is oversubscribed; his views on whether the new school that is being built in 2019 can cater for that oversubscription; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19656/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a child (details supplied) has been denied a place in a school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19657/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Referendum Campaigns (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the referendum campaign on the eighth amendment of the Constitution. [17977/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Referendum Campaigns (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach misunderstood the nature of the question. I will take the opportunity to make a few points in the context of it. While in international terms Ireland has highly independent and regulated elections, we are only beginning to get our act together in referendums. International experience shows that overseas attempts to interfere in votes are increasing rapidly. The work of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: We will do what?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: We all agree with that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The only person doing the sabre rattling is the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: That was always going to happen.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Who said that?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I never used the word "reject". The Taoiseach just makes things up to suit his straw men all over the place.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I have asked the Taoiseach on a number of occasions what he means by the term "meaningful progress". Could he give us some sense of what "meaningful progress" means? It is the Tánaiste who said more strongly than anybody here that if there was no progress by June - "substantial" is the word he used - then it would be questionable whether we would have any deal at all in October. He...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I support Deputy Boyd Barrett on that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Sometimes the Brexit questions get thrown-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: President Tusk has been a consistent and strong friend of Ireland since his time as Prime Minister of Poland. He has been an excellent President of the EU Council and I believe he has handled Brexit extremely well. As the final deals will be settled at summits, he will be central to what is finally agreed. In this context we need some clarity about the timing and nature of any final deal...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Media Mergers (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: That is the point.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Media Mergers (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: That was wrong.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the President of the European Council, Mr. Donald Tusk, since his speech on 18 April 2018 to the European Parliament on Brexit regarding the forthcoming assessment on the talks on transition in June 2018. [17972/18]