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Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: Compassionate access programme.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Minister could perhaps talk to Commissioner Hogan.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: Will the Minister correspond with us on the issue?

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: Under the programme for Government the Government commits to developing a national disease register and also to implement the national rare diseases plan. There was a very constructive presentation today in the Oireachtas - and outside of the Oireachtas - on the issue of Lyme disease. It is a rare disease but it is growing in terms of the number of people in this country who have the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: They are not meeting. A person outside told me they have only had one meeting.

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: I have raised this with the Tánaiste. The case reveals a litany of dysfunction that is incredible. On that night of 2 August 2011, an hour before Shane O'Farrell was killed, Mr. Gridzuiska - the man who was driving in the hit-and-run car - was a passenger in a vehicle stopped by the Garda national drugs unit. At the scene the gardaí believed the driver and two passengers were in...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: On 2 August 2011 young Shane O'Farrell was killed in a shocking manner by a Mr. Gridzuiska in an horrific hit and run incident while he was cycling towards Carrickmacross. Mr. Gridzuiska did not brake, stop his vehicle or check on Shane O'Farrell's condition. He fled the scene, abandoned his car and hid it very well 5 km up the road. One issue is that he should not have been at liberty at...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (3 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: 243. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the NCPE to review its decision to reject, for the purpose of reimbursement, the combined drugs (details supplied) in view of the data presented last week at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual meeting in Washington DC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21001/17]

European Council Meeting: Statements (2 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: We should have had it in advance of this coming after the summit.

European Council Meeting: Statements (2 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: This is not good enough and there is no point in pretending it is.

European Council Meeting: Statements (2 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is unfortunate, to say the least, that the Taoiseach has yet again put media management ahead of serious policy discussions. The Government's decision to publish today a document on the Brexit negotiations without any advance notice and it being shared in time for us to consider it in this debate speaks volumes. The Government has scheduled a debate on the Article 50 negotiations for one...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (2 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the role of the British-Irish and Northern Ireland affairs section in his Department. [17833/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (2 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: The recent discussions about establishing an Executive and allowing the Assembly to do its job showed very little, if any, progress. When announcing his urgent priorities, the Taoiseach stated that ensuring the Northern Ireland institutions were up and running would be one of those two priorities. When he made the statement, the expectation was that he was about to launch into a major...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (2 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: I beg the Deputy's pardon. Do not tell untruths in the House. I initiated that when we agreed with the Taoiseach on it at the time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (2 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: The lack of truth characterises the Deputy's political articulation.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (2 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Adams-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (2 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the role of the economic policy unit in his Department. [17832/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (2 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: The CSO is under the Department of the Taoiseach and the economic policy unit has traditionally been responsible for overseeing its work. The Taoiseach will have noticed two members of his Government have recently been caught out promoting misleading and potentially fake statistics. The Minister for Social Protection recently launched a national media campaign on a claim concerning welfare...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (2 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: It stated fraud.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (2 May 2017)

Micheál Martin: Come off it, Minister. You were caught out.