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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Administrative Arrangements (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: I thought that those parties were part of a collective and cohesive Government - very sad.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Administrative Arrangements (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: Since the budget, on a number of occasions, the Taoiseach has indicated he is being very reasonable and that he thinks €6 million going on staff and marketing in the new communications unit is okay. I think it is actually quite extraordinary growth, given the Taoiseach mentioned 11 people have been employed in the unit in double quick time. I remember Deputy Stephen Donnelly asking...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Administrative Arrangements (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: The staff is fine. I asked about the communications unit.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: A lot has happened. These questions were tabled before the events of last week. It is important that point be made because the Taoiseach has been clear that the former Tánaiste had to resign, in spite of making no errors. He has conflated two issues and formed a view that the former Tánaiste will be vindicated at the Charleton tribunal, but it is not inquiring into whether the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: I apologise for the length of time taken. Are we in a position to appoint the change management group or when will the Taoiseach be in a position to do so? On the examination to be undertaken by the external person to inquire into the reason the documents were not sent to the Charleton inquiry, is the Taoiseach in a position to name the person or indicate when the examination will...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he or his officials have received feedback on the search he requested to be done in the Department of Justice and Equality; and if his officials have been in contact with the department regarding same. [50532/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Membership (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. Will the Taoiseach indicate the position on the prioritisation of those threats? Probably one of the growing and most significant threats relates to cybersecurity. Will the Taoiseach indicate the degree to which the national security committee has taken action to prepare the State in respect of potential cyberattacks? We know what happened in...

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: I have looked for longer sittings but no one has agreed.

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: As the Taoiseach knows, for a number of months I have been raising the issue of the lack of funding for section 39 bodies to restore pay in line with HSE employees. Many such organisations are involved in disability service provision, hospices and so on. Yesterday the Taoiseach told me that the Ministers for Finance and Health were working out which organisations had cut pay in line with...

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: They were instructed by the HSE to make the FEMPI legislation cuts.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: I think it was Johanna Powell, one of the carers on the programme shown last evening, who said she did not want politicians to say anymore that they were full of respect, concern and admiration for her. She wants people to get angry and action. She does not want to hear more statistics and announcements that bear no relationship with reality. It is not that there are not sufficient respite...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: They want action.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: I do not know whether the Taoiseach saw the "Prime Time" special programme last evening which revealed the appalling and heart-rending situation facing many carers across this country. If the Taoiseach did not watch it, and he may not have had the time, I would recommend that he watch it fairly quickly because it revealed the appalling lack of sufficient State resources to carers. That lack...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, may shake his hand.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: I am fed up with going to service providers with emergency cases. Everybody is.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: The service provider says back to us that it is getting no funding from Government.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: This is the reality.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: Last night the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, stated it shone a light on it. It did not shine a light on it because everybody knows this.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: The real problem is it requires a step-change in Government response. The national intellectual disability database lays out the demographic challenges and the 5,000 plus additional adult children with intellectual disability, if one uses that phrase, coming on stream who need new services.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)

Micheál Martin: The data is there for the Government. What is missing is action and resources. I would ask the Taoiseach to watch the programme and come back to the House with an action programme to deal with the crisis that so many families in this country are facing right now.