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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if his statement to the European Parliament represents the Government's official position for the forthcoming negotiations for the European Council. [3174/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 17. To ask the Taoiseach the meetings he attended while in Strasbourg; and the issues that were discussed. [3443/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: I find how the Taoiseach has articulated this to be extraordinary. He said that he spoke on his thoughts about how Europe should evolve and on the future of Europe. He said two or three times today that he did not share his speech to the European Parliament with any of his Cabinet colleagues. I must remind him that the constitutional framework under which he has his position is far...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Has the market research been published?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said it in a formal reply to the House. I am not being flippant about this - he said it, not us.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: That market research would be commissioned by this famous strategic communications unit to inform the campaigns that were going to be launched. The Taoiseach has launched campaigns without any market research being published from what we can see. That is all I am asking. Can the Taoiseach make it available?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: After the Taoiseach appointed the head person.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: From whom?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: This is a new one on me.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach's predecessor, Deputy Enda Kenny, said the Government was in favour of it all along.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: That is not why it was not built.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Government lost the chance for direct funding. The Taoiseach is being disingenuous and dishonest.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: I was not referring to the speech itself but to the Government's policy on the future of Europe.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Is it the case that the policy on the future of Europe does not require any discussion at Cabinet level? If so, that is an extraordinary statement.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach to set out his Department's priorities for 2018. [2111/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: On the priorities of the Department of the Taoiseach, I referred during our discussion on the previous group of questions to the need for sectoral impact studies in the context of Brexit. I put it to the Taoiseach that we do not know what the sectoral impacts will be under the various scenarios that may emerge from the EU-UK deal on Brexit, if such a deal emerges. I am thinking particularly...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, I thought the Irish unity issue would have been a separate question to that on the Cabinet sub-committee. Could we have a bit more time? Essentially we are asking two questions; one on Brexit and the European Union and one on Irish unity.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: They are two very separate questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: I will do my best. On the question on Irish unity, one point that has caused a lot of division in recent years is that many people are getting tired of the politics of the empty gesture. The only credible way of achieving Irish unity remains in showing the majority in the North the strength of our community of interests and that we utterly reject the zero-sum sectarianism, of which there is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin represents the greatest barrier-----