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Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: Fine Gael has it changed every time.

Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: Not agreed.

Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: We already indicated to the Business Committee in advance that the putting back of Private Members' time from 8 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. to facilitate the recommital of the Bail (Amendment) Bill is not satisfactory from our point of view. It is our Private Members' time this week and many people committed to Defence Force issues will be in attendance this evening. Having Private Members' debates...

Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: Since 2016, the NTA, under EU regulations, has had to pay a reasonable profit on PSO services to CIE companies. Where a reasonable profit is paid to a director or operator, it is a matter for that company to decide how it wishes to apply these funds. It goes through all the possible applications of reasonable profit. No one is arguing that Bus Éireann is not very successful at...

Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: We are now in the 12th day of the nationwide Bus Éireann dispute. People are extremely frustrated, annoyed and angry by the lack of activity at Government level to resolve this dispute. The simple refrain across Ireland is that if this dispute was in Dublin, it would have been resolved a long time ago. That is the general sense in regional cities, rural towns and across the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Issues (4 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance the way his Department and officials are promoting Ireland as an alternative location for various sectors, particularly the financial sector, following Brexit. [12052/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Sector (4 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has discussed at a recent European Council meeting or at any bilateral he attended concerns that Ireland has regarding creeping regulatory arbitrage by other EU countries in trying to win business from the financial services in the City of London; the actions being taken in order to attract jobs from there; and his views on present infrastructure....

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: 93. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Cabinet committee meetings he has attended since the start of 2017. [16403/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: 94. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Economy, Trade and Jobs last met and will next meet. [16404/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Correspondence (4 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: 151. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received contact from a person (details supplied); and if so, her response to same. [16628/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Shortages (4 Apr 2017)

Micheál Martin: 294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the programme for Government commitment in respect of ensuring an ambitious and implementable plan to identify and address skills gaps, ICT and STEM needs. [12051/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (30 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: 46. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she or her officials have recently reviewed a case (details supplied); the circumstances that led to this person's death by a person who was repeatedly on bail and who had numerous convictions involving drugs and alcohol; and if the Government is considering a commission of inquiry into the actions that were taken by the Garda regarding all...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traveller Community (30 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: 50. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on her statement on 1 March 2017 regarding Traveller ethnicity here; and if she will elaborate on the matter. [11616/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is all heart.

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: No. Deputy Moynihan is not referring to the compassionate access programme. This is separate.

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: People were genuinely shocked last evening when the Policing Authority issued a statement in which it again expressed its disappointment at not being advised in a timely manner that an audit into the breath test issues was under way. Despite questioning over several months, the authority has not yet been provided with the full internal reports or indeed a clear sense of how these matters...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: -----and the fact that there has been no provision of the requisite documentation and information to the authority.

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: They buried it.

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: We are now into the sixth day without Bus Éireann services throughout the country. People are angry about the loss of services. The workers are very angry about the race to the bottom to a low wage and low cost public transport model with a draconian reduction in their overall take-home income. People in the regions have no access to public transport. Towns that are already in deep...

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Minister is being disingenuous. The point I am making is that in 2013, when all of that broke down, the Government at the time took the decision to appoint two experienced facilitators to get people back into facilitation. Nothing has happened on this occasion by the Government and nothing has happened for all of 2015 and right through to 2016 because it is not in the Minister's own...