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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: I thought it was meant to be five initially.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach have any idea what goes on in there?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The unit was the Taoiseach's idea. The Taoiseach appointed Mr. Concannon.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The unit now has 15 permanent staff. That is interesting.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach imagines?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Come on.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: May I ask a brief supplementary question?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach think it is acceptable that there is more staff in the strategic communications unit than in the social policy division? Does that not say it all? Social policy was a very strong part of the Department of the Taoiseach in terms of social partnership but also in context of the RAPID programme areas and facilitating a cross-cutting role for Government with regard to areas...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is quite striking that strategic communications, which is very new and which is now embedded within the Department, is the one initiative the Taoiseach has taken and that it trumps all others in terms of staffing and expertise recruited. Given the enormity of Brexit, it is striking that priority is being give to communications above and beyond anything else. I have seen some of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The matter went to an oral planning hearing in the region of six months ago. Site selection and other matters have all been taken care of. Likewise, a dental hospital was mentioned that has nothing to do with the Government. The relevant university hospital got money from the European Investment Bank. People will not be impressed by the idea that we use taxpayers' money to advertise...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff within his Department who have decided to return to work after their official retirement date. [6005/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: In 2016 the then Taoiseach stated that a staffing audit was being carried out in the Department of the Taoiseach. This was in response to questions from me about how the Department was going to undertake a range of challenges, including dealing with Brexit, the ongoing instability in the Northern institutions and the capital plan, which was due to go before a Cabinet committee at that time....
- Public Health (Availability of Defibrillators) Bill 2018: First Stage (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: That means the party.
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: It was published yesterday.
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is my genuine belief that there are many children in the country who are not being looked after and who are in vulnerable situations, from those with disabilities to those waiting for hospital and outpatient appointments. The programme for Government makes it clear that we need to plan ahead for this new generation by putting in place measures that provide them equality of opportunity,...
- Order of Business (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Why are the lists in respect of children getting longer? Can the Taoiseach outline the Government's intention to get to grips with this issue?
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Central Bank believed that it was.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The banks have an obligation, particularly those that were bailed out by the State, because they are essentially proposing to outsource their difficult or dirty work rather than doing it themselves. No one has any difficulty with improving the health of the balance sheet but it is critical that it is not done at the expense of ordinary people in business, small and medium enterprises,...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Many thousands of people in the State right now are living in fear and with a considerable degree of anxiety following the news that the PTSB is about to offload some 20,000 mortgages to unregulated loan owners, or vulture funds as they are commonly called. These loans are to be sold to unregulated, out of State vulture funds. With one decision or one stroke, this will double the amount of...