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- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: I do, indeed. There are a range of other issues which I can deal with but the fundamental question is why is it that there has been such poor implementation of the recommendations contained in the Garda Inspectorate report of 2012 in relation to so grave an issue as the exploitation and sexual abuse of children?
- Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: Without question, the scale of what has been alleged in Limerick is shocking and may represent a first in this country. It is important to point out that 60% of all reported sex crimes in Ireland involve a child but only 4% of cases notified to gardaí result in convictions. I asked the Taoiseach specifically about the lack of implementation of the 2012 report. We are great at...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: I note the entire Cabinet is decamping to UCC on Friday.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: I am now beginning to understand why the Taoiseach was seeking assistance from all parties in the House for a quorum, because clearly half of the Fine Gael Party will be on the UCC campus marketing the national development plan.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: Delivery is the key and more than 9,000 people are in emergency accommodation of whom 3,267 are children. This is the bottom line. When people come into our clinics in desperate situations looking for housing, they find it unbelievable that there are all these advertisements about 2040 and 2027. The Luas to Finglas is post-2027 but it is a great thing and the Government will even get a few...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: We need delivery. Rapid housing was promised when the then Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, announced it three years ago. In 2015, some 1,500 houses were to be delivered. There is a huge issue about delivery in 2019, 2020 and 2021 in hospitals, health services and housing. They are the key issues on which the Government needs to refocus.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: It got a mention.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----will have its own campaign shortly.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is bizarre, absurd and wrong.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy Ross, has had his way then.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said he is not sure how it came about that the nomination of the chairman - anyway, we will talk about that again.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: I know, but sometimes one is taken aback by the answer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: On an important point, the Taoiseach talks about allegations. He made an allegation about someone who is not a Member of this House last week. This is a very important point regarding Standing Orders. He has not withdrawn the allegation he made about Mr. Flaherty in the Dáil. He is the last man to be lecturing anyone about casting aspersions on people's characters. He repeated the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----again today when he said he has his own conspiracy theories. I am giving him an opportunity-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----to reflect on what he said today and last week about Mr. Flaherty and to withdraw those remarks.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach does not like criticism.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: I am happy enough.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: That is because the issue is never discussed. We need a debate on the issue.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: There are no pre-Council statements. There is no real or genuine debate on the issue in the House.