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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Meetings (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Mr. Mark Rutte and the issues that were discussed. [52909/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Meetings (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the German Chancellor, Ms Angela Merkel, recently. [53228/17]
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: I wish all the staff a very happy and peaceful Christmas.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: I will not be here tomorrow for Leaders' Questions. I will be in the House but I will not be taking Leaders' Questions. I thought it was okay to take the opportunity.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: I wish the same to all my colleagues in the House as well. We just had the penultimate Leaders' Questions and my last of the season. I put it to the Taoiseach that the programme for Government committed to publishing a new updated action plan for educational inclusion with a particular focus on DEIS schools. Emphasis was to be put on a broad-based package of measures, which would encompass...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: These schools have met the deprivation index criteria.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: Will the Minister publish all documentation on this issue?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: This was discovered through a freedom of information request. The Minister was not transparent on this issue.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: The strategic communications unit is really working overtime.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: In my view, to date the initiatives have failed spectacularly relative to the scale of the crisis and the number of children and adults who are homeless. I say that genuinely. The plans have not worked.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Government was in denial. It did not believe in the crisis.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Ceann Comhairle would want another warning on his clock.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: Human tendency.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday I visited the Capuchin Day Centre to meet those at the coalface of providing services for homeless adults and children. Brother Kevin's organisation is an iconic illustration of the generosity of people and the wider community. To witness volunteers from all strata of society is heartening; what is not so heartening is the lack of a proper meaningful response from Government. The...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach might forgive me for being somewhat cynical about all of that because when I raised it last April, the Taoiseach's predecessor said the Government was very ambitious and that it would build 650 rapid build houses in 2017. I think 76 have been delivered. That is our problem. I have heard all this before in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. I have heard it all and I have seen...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: The question I put-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: -----is why is the State so incapable of building houses on a scale necessary-----
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: -----to match the emergency of the housing crisis. We have 35,000 people on the HAP scheme now. HAP has been the main instrument to stem the tide here but it is not satisfactory.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Negotiations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: It is not that simple.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Negotiations (12 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: One could argue that the Governments of the 1970s did an awful lot to protect the State and that those who left people behind in Northern Ireland were not governments but other organisations-----