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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Meetings (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: The European social pillar document and strategy launched at the summit sets out a series of principles of social policy, which are accepted by member states. It has no justiciable basis, of course, but it is intended as a means of setting broad objectives for national and European Union activity. It is a very worthy document but it is not clear what importance is attached to it. It is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Policy Functions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: How many people work in the social policy and public service reform division and how many work on the Sláintecare report and policy which the Taoiseach says the Government is considering? The Taoiseach indicated yesterday that the communications unit, which is under his command – he picked the head man for it - would organise communications campaigns particularly on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Policy Functions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: It has been liaising with all Deputies for quite some time. The project goes back a long time over successive Governments.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Policy Functions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: It does not belong to anyone. It does not belong to the Taoiseach although he has sometimes claimed it does. The decisions predated the Taoiseach's role. The former Minister for Health, now Senator Reilly, had an impact. Mary Harney even had an impact but the planning derailed that project.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Policy Functions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: My point is that there is a sense that the real function of the communications unit and the €5 million of taxpayers' money is to promote the Government and the Ministers, not the hospital. I genuinely believe there is a danger in how this grows and evolves. If a hospital is a self-contained entity in its work it is difficult to comprehend why its communications agenda is located...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: In the programme for Government, under the subheading "Ireland-UK Relations", it is stated, "Building on the successful state visits [and so on], we will continue to enhance Ireland's relationship with the United Kingdom [and so forth]". Amid everything that has happened in the past two weeks, there was a very serious breach and leak of foreign affairs documentation. Our diplomats, as he...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: -----was released recently in a leak to a very good journalist but, from the perspective of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, I think it will damage UK-Ireland relations. A British judge was quoted, so how can any diplomat, civil servant or politician around the world have any confidence in the Irish Government's-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: -----capacity any more to garner such off-the-record briefings and so on? In light of the programme for Government commitment and the damage this has done to our relationship with Britain, about which there is no doubt, will the Taoiseach confirm that an investigation of that breach has taken place? Will he undertake to update the House in this regard and let us know the outcome of that...

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: Is the money therefore owed already?

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: The money is owed so.

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: People will have been concerned to learn that the assistant commissioner of the Dublin metropolitan region, Pat Leahy, has advised that no overtime is to be incurred other than in respect of Operation C-Port and Operation Hybrid. In his instruction, he declared in very stark language:No other overtime is authorised and any operations intended on an overtime basis are hereby cancelled ... The...

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: If enough money is available, it should not be the case in any national system that a declaration of this nature, with so many implications, is made. Did the Garda inform the Department of Justice and Equality that it intended to make this announcement to all gardaí across the country? Surely proper planning would dictate that something like this should not occur at this time of the...

Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has said he shares the concerns about this matter and needs to understand it a bit better. He has said he would have assumed that Garda management knew about these arrangements. This instruction was issued by an assistant commissioner on the basis that "the Garda Budget for 2017 has been exhausted". I think we need a better explanation of how this has happened within our...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 79. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to First Minister Arlene Foster since 12 November 2017 regarding Northern Ireland and Brexit. [50535/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Paradise Papers. (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance if papers (details supplied) were discussed at the last EU Council meeting. [47896/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Communications (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 163. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the internal report by his Department that was reported in the media on 23 November 2017 (details supplied) [50531/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Independent Review Mechanism (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 187. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) regarding allegations relating to the way in which An Garda Síochána handled a case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50766/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Independent Review Mechanism (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to specify the relevant authority for the complaint regarding the way in which An Garda Síochána allegedly handled a case (details supplied), in view of the fact that the independent review mechanism deemed it not to be under the ambit of the inquiry after considering it for 18 months; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Independent Review Mechanism (29 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received a report from the Garda Commissioner regarding a case (details supplied); the way in which it was handled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50768/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (28 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: Will it ever say what the Government does not do?