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Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday, I brought the Taoiseach's attention a study by Ms Kathleen Ryan in Trinity College Dublin into our child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS. I referred to how thousands of children and young people are on waiting lists to access psychiatrists and psychologists, as well as how many professionals in the service were finding it challenging, frustrating and disillusioning,...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: Three weeks ago, two psychiatrists in the Waterford-Wexford area resigned their posts because they said services were falling apart. I met the Taoiseach's predecessor over the past two years and we went through these issues, along with Deputy James Browne who has monitored the mental health commitments in the confidence and supply agreement. The Taoiseach can quote figures about increased...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Ms Christine Lagarde on 26 June 2018; the persons that attended; and the issues that were discussed. [28779/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 52. To ask the Taoiseach the issues he discussed with persons (details supplied) when he met them in New York. [30534/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 55. To ask the Taoiseach the way in which the group that attended the private lunch in New York were selected and on whose recommendations; the purpose of the lunch; and the issues that were discussed. [30708/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 56. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee F (national security) last met; and the number of times it has met to date in 2018. [29353/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 60. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met with or spoken to the Chancellor of Austria; and if so, the issues they discussed. [30933/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (11 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 133. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. [30931/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: I am not getting excited. I am getting very real. I am focusing on the jobs in the economy which are often ignored.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: No.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: That was not the case for a long time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: I agree with fair taxation.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: On a contrary approach, one of the entirely false accusations made against some of the large companies that operate out of Ireland is that they are somehow brass plate entities or that they are only tax vehicles. That is nonsense. Apple has been one of the biggest employers in Cork for almost four decades. I can recall that in the late 1990s, when we had just entered into government, there...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: No, but I challenge the Deputy and others to talk to the workforces in these companies, including Intel and the pharmaceutical companies. I was the Minister with responsibility for enterprise for four years. Who are we up against? It is not other European states but Switzerland, Israel and Singapore. People from Singapore were knocking on every door on which representatives of IDA Ireland...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Government Chief Whip does nothing about it at the Business Committee.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy should speak with his Whip.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the actions he has taken to strengthen Cabinet accountability as outlined in A Programme for a Partnership Government; if the examination of the role of Ministers for State has been completed; and if it will be published. [26881/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach and his predecessor entered office claiming that they would implement a new approach to accountability for Ministers. In fact, the Taoiseach's predecessor said he would have annual score cards for Ministers, which never materialised. In the Taoiseach's case, we were told that he would hold Ministers to account very closely for their delivery. Has he looked at the work of all...

Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: Despite the programme for Government commitment to build further capacity in child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, the waiting lists for young people are getting longer and, more crucially, professional staff are leaving the service. I do not know if the Taoiseach is aware of a study undertaken by researchers in Trinity College Dublin and published today which describes how...

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should listen to the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, a bit more.