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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (30 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: May I make one final point?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (30 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Government has not been good enough in terms of Oireachtas reform. Will the Taoiseach take the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to one side and say we have all agreed that proper status should be given to the various entities that have been established such as the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Adviser and the Parliamentary Budget Office? We need high status individuals to...

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I want to return to the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. It deals specifically with the issue that has been revealed. It is important we would get an explanation and a statement at some stage as to why that Bill has been delayed. I understand there are policy issues that still have not been resolved, notwithstanding the fact the Bill has been published since 2016....

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: -----and requested by Members of the previous Dáil as well as this Dáil. We need to get a timeline for it.

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: One must feel for those people whose births were incorrectly registered or who were adopted illegally and have learned for the first time that their parents are not their birth parents on foot of the information which emerged yesterday about St. Patrick's Guild. The youngest person affected is 49 years old while the oldest is 72. The issues of incorrect registrations of children and of...

Leaders' Questions (30 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I am taken aback that the Taoiseach did not answer my very specific question about why there has been a delay in legislating for this matter. I did not want prepared soundbites or a prepared script. I asked for a specific answer. In 2010, the Adoption Authority of Ireland conducted an audit on this issue. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has commented negatively on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (30 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the recent violence and killing of Palestinians on the Israeli border will be discussed by him at the next EU Council meeting in June 2018. [23796/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (30 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his or the attention of his officials has been drawn to the most recent report to the European Parliament Constitutional Affairs Committee on the implications of a hard Brexit and invoking Article XXIV of the GATT which could allow for keeping an open border. [23792/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (30 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to his French counterpart recently regarding Brexit negotiations. [23794/18]

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (29 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The outcome of the referendum has been as clear and decisive as it could possibly have been. There is no doubt about what we must do. With an overwhelming majority, the people have given the Oireachtas the right and the duty to legislate quickly for a new approach, founded on the core principle of trusting women and their doctors. It is an historic change but not one which came about...

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: On the Order of Business-----

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Yes, it is also the Order of Business.

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: On the criminal procedure Bill, a large number of murders and serious crimes have been committed in recent weeks, and while we cannot discuss them specifically, there are issues arising from those to which we as an Oireachtas probably need to give further consideration in due course. There are still numerous complaints about delays in trial hearings and in criminal cases. The Council of...

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I accepted it even though I was not happy with the decision of the Business Committee to have five minutes. I would have preferred the d'Hondt method, if we want to be absolutely fair about speaking times in the House on matters of this kind. People cannot come in here and say five minutes, which we had to agree to and I had to agree to as a leader, and then say they want to change that. I...

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: We are having a debate. I have no issue with a debate.

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I know the Deputy did but he cannot run the House.

Order of Business (29 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I have no difficulty with a longer debate. I have no difficulty with the Dáil coming back to this debate. I would like to get advance notice. I would like the Business Committee when it makes up its mind not to be coming in 24 hours later with a new proposal. That is what is going on all the time and it is unsustainable.

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach about women from Northern Ireland who might wish to avail of services in the Republic under the new legal framework that would inevitably result from the decision made by the people last Friday. I welcome his commitment to longer sittings to get the legislation through. I agree with him that the urgency of this issue for many women in our society means that we have an...

Leaders' Questions (29 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: The people have spoken emphatically. In a clear and decisive manner, the people, through the referendum, have voted for change - for new laws which will end the cruel inflexibility of the eighth amendment. The people have given the Oireachtas the mandate and the obligation to legislate for a new approach, one that trusts women and their doctors. Civic society was powerful in this...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: 130. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee meetings he has attended since January 2018. [23339/18]