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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: Over the past five or six years, we have consistently raised the new pressures on rural Ireland and the regions and the degree to which large sections of the country have felt alienated from the centre and have not experienced the level of economic development that they could have had and that they need. It must be said that the proposed rural action plan is a damp squib. The plans for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: Has the tender been issued?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: I recall meeting the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment and officials along with the Independents 12 months ago. The single most important enabler of economic development is broadband and the tender has not yet been issued.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: The tender has not been issued. It has been going on for 12 months. The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment has been in office for a year. I am not going to blame him for it but surely collectively people need to realise the lack of urgency around all of this. We are being told the same thing year after year. I asked the officials last year not to promise me again...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet Committee on Regional and Rural Affairs has met; and when it next plans to meet. [21846/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: I just heard the Taoiseach say that he came across a local authority "by chance" and that one would get lost in the figures. That is exactly the problem. A major lesson the Government should have learned in the past six years is that a policy of over-hyping and under-achieving will catch up with one. That is what has happened in relation to housing. The Taoiseach will recall that various...

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should deal with the Bill raised by Deputy Troy.

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is playing down the clock.

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Minister did not push it politically.

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: The TUI is stronger than the Dáil.

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy knows both its written and unwritten parts.

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: The proposal is in chapter 4 of the programme for Government.

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: They have not got to the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to the Government.

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: What about the Government's Bills?

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: Yes.

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: We are waiting for those.

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: Not 140, Taoiseach. I did not say 140.

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: There is some very low hanging fruit there, Taoiseach.

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is abusing----

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: That is not the point. That is not the way it works and the Taoiseach knows it.