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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: We need a different attitude from the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: The work carried out by staff at the Department of the Taoiseach is always excellent and ensures they are dignified and focused on unifying elements, such as the institution of the Presidency and of course the Army, which is now, and always has been, the only legitimate Óglaigh na hÉireann. However, it is a great pity the Taoiseach chose to be so highly partisan last week at his...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: What happened to Charleville?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, my views on the Mahon tribunal are very well known. I am not so sure whether that is the case regarding the Taoiseach's views on it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C, European Union, including Brexit, last met. [17679/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: Before I put my specific question, I want to point out that it is now the Taoiseach's customary practice to completely ignore difficult questions by using up all of his time to answer less challenging ones. Yesterday, I asked very direct and relevant questions on exaggerated claims for the strategic communications unit and the admission of the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: I refer to the commitment to child protection in the programme for Government. Anyone who watched "Prime Time" last night could only have been sickened and appalled by what was allowed to happen in that County Galway foster home. We have become almost numb to the repetition of such cases; the case of Grace last year was mentioned earlier. The Galway case happened relatively recently....

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: We put our priorities into the confidence and supply agreement. The reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio would not have occurred if it had not been provided for in the confidence and supply agreement. Fine Gael resisted the reduction, just as it resisted the National Treatment Purchase Fund.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: Likewise, the Fine Gael Party resisted postgraduate grants which we put into the confidence and supply agreement. The same applied to ex quota career guidance counsellors. There would have been no movement on career guidance counselling if I had not insisted that, despite Fine Gael objections, it be included in the confidence and supply agreement. I am not interested in a tit-for-tat...

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: This is a simple and valid point, which the Government acknowledged three years ago in its programme for Government but which it has not implemented.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: What does the Taoiseach say?

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is completely out of touch.

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: St. Gabriel's special school in Bishopstown, County Cork, provides education for 43 special needs children with very severe and profound diagnoses of autism. That includes intellectual disability with autism, probably the most severe and profound condition that is catered for in the education system. These are children who should be our number one priority, but they are being neglected by...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: 70. To ask the Taoiseach if he has examined the research that was procured by the strategic communications unit; and when it will be published or available to Dáil Éireann. [18251/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: 71. To ask the Taoiseach if the research that was carried out by the strategic communications unit has been shared with other Departments. [18252/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: 72. To ask the Taoiseach if the research carried out on behalf of the strategic communications unit will be discussed at committee level in Dáil Éireann. [18253/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Responsibilities (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: 90. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the statutory duties of the Minister of State with responsibility for flood relief. [17976/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: 155. To ask the Minister for Health if emergency funding will be allocated to provide full residential care for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18255/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (25 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: 156. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the shortage of residential places in County Cork for persons with intellectual disabilities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18256/18]

Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is absurd.