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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: A comprehensive learning and development programme is implemented by the Department of the Taoiseach to ensure that employees at all levels have the required skills and knowledge to perform their individual roles and deliver the strategic objectives of the Department. The programme includes training courses provided by the Institute of Public Administration (IPA) which is responsible for...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Department of the Taoiseach was not renamed or rebranded therefore no associated costs have been incurred.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (17 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Housing and Infrastructure Unit is part of the Economic Division within my Department. It supports me and the Government in delivering relevant commitments in the Programme for Government. This includes supporting the work of the Cabinet Committee on Housing which works to ensure a coordinated, cross Government, approach to the implementation of Programme for Government commitments...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Northern Ireland (17 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: Maritime safety policy is a responsibility of the Minister for Transport, Darragh O’Brien TD. I am informed that that Department is not considering funding for civil society organisations involved in navigational safety, through the Shared Island Fund or otherwise, and engagement with such groups is a matter for relevant ports and local authorities in the first instance. The...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Contracts (17 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: The below table outlines the amount spent by the Department of the Taoiseach on contracted communications and public relations services in 2024. Company Name Work undertaken 2024 Expenditure Q4 Public Relations Ltd. Support and advice in the development of effective public communication and engagement strategies [May - December 2023] ...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Judicial Reviews (17 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Department of the Taoiseach has been involved in the defence of eight judicial review cases during the period specified. Five of the eight cases have concluded and three cases are continuing. Of the five cases concluded, two were dismissed, one was refused and the remaining two were referred back to the Department for fresh decisions to be made.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I will raise this. There is no point in roaring at me about it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: A Department of Government is doing everything it possibly can to give access to people. The big issue initially was that there was no access. I will relay that the Deputy has raised this with the Minister of State. He is very well aware of it, as is the Minister, Deputy Lawless. All the Deputies have been engaged in this matter, but it is a bit much to expect us to have the operational...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this very important issue. My understanding is that the Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, has met the parents' alliance. I certainly have no issue meeting them either, subject obviously to scheduling in terms of the diary. I will speak to the Minister for equality and disability, Deputy Foley, on the question of an equality audit. It is an important issue....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I dealt with this question yesterday. Our view is fundamentally that the insurance industry has to step up to the plate in many instances. In particular, where the State has completed flood relief schemes and where the infrastructure is in place, I have heard there are still difficulties in getting flood insurance, notwithstanding the investment that has gone in. In that case there is a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I was in Galway recently. I met the county and city managers. I have agreed to meet both of them for a more detailed discussion around development issues-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I just want to get on with it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I am talking to TDs. I will meet you as well. I do not want to have 25 people arriving in again and we all chatting and everyone saying the same thing.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I have met TDs and I will meet TDs. I have just said that I met the county and city managers because there are a lot of objections in Galway to housing developments. On the water question, Irish Water will be resourced and has been resourced. Increased resources will be allocated to Irish Water under the national development plan. I am fully aware of the issues around wastewater treatment...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: The events in Carlow were very traumatic for everyone involved-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----including the wider community and the family of Evan Fitzgerald, a young man whose life is now no more. It was a very sad and traumatic event. I will check with the Minister for Justice for clarity around dates. The Minister or the Department of Justice may have been told this was going to Fiosrú. If that is the case, one does not comment on it. That is normal.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I would not comment on anything if it was heading for an investigation. That is why one leaves things go to investigation. I am not aware of the background to this at all.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I will ask the Minister to respond to some of these issues.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. When I met him in the corridor last evening, he highlighted the unique and important presence of prehistoric monuments known as the Baltinglass hillforts, up to 13 hillforts in south-west Wicklow and neighbouring parts of Kildare, the largest collection of such impressive prehistoric monuments in Ireland or Britain. I am delighted that the Deputy...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: As I looked out a window yesterday, I spotted an errant Minister, who had assured me he had given up cigarettes, smoking. He was caught red-handed as I looked out the window.