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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations (4 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all recommendations of the Moriarty tribunal have been implemented; the recommendations that are outstanding; and when they will be implemented. [29040/18]

Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: I thought the Tánaiste was lacking in gratitude to the leader of Sinn Féin. He forgot to mention the strong electoral alliance between his party and Sinn Féin, as manifested in Sinn Féin voting in its entirety for Senator Lawlor. It was very noticeable and the most striking electoral alliance so far in the House this year. The enthusiastic support for the Judicial...

Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: On childcare, the programme for Government promises to develop targeted supports to reduce childcare costs, broaden parental choice and increase supports to stay-at-home parents. This commitment is not being met and weekly costs are enormous. In Fingal, for example, it is €204 per week. In south Dublin, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin city and nationally it is very high. It is the...

Order of Business (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: Be careful what you wish for.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: I must point out that it was seven years ago that the Government promised universal access to services, and we are now in a far worse position. It was the Government that got rid of the National Treatment Purchase Fund in 2012. That is directly attributable to an escalation in waiting times and waiting lists. It has only been reinstated because of the confidence and supply agreement and...

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: -----such is the lack of urgency and attention to the issues.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Government is not taking it forward. It is 14 months since the programme was launched and there is still no director.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: Seven years ago, Fine Gael promised universal access to health services for all and the end of long waiting times and lists. Seven years on, we have record levels of waiting times and waiting lists. Some 718,000 people, an extraordinary number, are on hospital waiting lists as of May of this year. Some 512,000 of these are on an outpatient waiting list, a record high which means that many...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 44. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the issues that were discussed at the EU meeting he attended on 25 June 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28655/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Council Meetings (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he held bilaterals when he attended the EU meeting on 25 June 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28656/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Northern Ireland (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to or met the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland recently; the position regarding reconvening the Northern Ireland Assembly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28657/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ministerial Meetings (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his meeting with President Juncker when he was in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28658/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Northern Ireland (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to or met with the leaders of Sinn Féin, Ms Michelle O'Neill and Deputy Mary Lou McDonald, since they met with Prime Minister May; the persons who attended the meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28659/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ministerial Communications (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 50. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has written to or spoken to President Erdogan of Turkey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28788/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the proposal to set up Sparkasse here; his views on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28645/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Post Office Network (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to utilise post offices to provide additional banking services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28646/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Budgets (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance if his French or German counterparts have written to him or contacted him about the letter signed by EU leaders regarding suggested reforms to the EU budgetary process. [29039/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Administration (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 213. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on reports (details supplied) of the INIS meeting with the Central Bank regarding concerns about an anomaly in the cash for visa scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28647/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reform (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the reform measures that have been implemented in his Department since January 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29027/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (3 Jul 2018)

Micheál Martin: 364. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received communications from a person (details supplied) with regard to being charged €80 each time the person needs to have blood drained due to haemochromatosis; his views on the fact that it is estimated that this procedure takes only 15 to 30 minutes on average; if consideration is being given not to charge patients with this condition;...