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Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: I am not speaking about every item or accusation. I never said that and the Taoiseach knows it. Let us not introduce confusion or try to create a fog around this. It is very specific. I ask the Taoiseach and the Minister to engage with Dr. Conor O'Mahony in UCC, who has done an lot of work on this and has made submissions to Europe on it.

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: This is not complex, it is quite simple. What happened after the Louise O'Keeffe judgment, it seems to me, is the Government asked how the hell would it limit this and how would it prevent genuine people who have been abused and whose abusers have been convicted and limit the numbers. This is what is going on and it is scandalous. What gets me every now and again is that we had all the...

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: It was about the lack of proactive measures by the State to protect children in schools such as an inspectorial regime. This was the essence of the Louise O'Keeffe judgment. What is now going on is a scandal - the degree to which these victims have been left so high and dry. Many of them are in very difficult circumstances socially, financially and healthwise. It cries out for action and...

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: No.

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is not quoting the court judgment.

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: That is not the ruling.

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: No, it has not.

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: I have all that. That is not helpful at all.

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: I raise a significant and very serious legacy issue affecting the State. It is one which, in many ways, informs how we continue to approach victims of sexual abuse. In the last number of weeks, we have, rightly, had very significant coverage of the mother and baby home scandal, the way in which single women were treated and the absence of any human response to that. At the same time that...

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: I did not say that.

Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach knows what I said.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Undocumented Irish in the USA (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: 96. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting in Boston with the city mayor and, in particular, his comments regarding the Irish undocumented; and the other issues that were discussed. [14478/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: 97. To ask the Taoiseach to outline the matters he discussed with and what he said to President Trump regarding immigration when he met him on 16 March 2017; and if the US President had any particular comments to make on his plans for immigration and the latest judgment on his executive orders. [14479/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office Reports (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: 98. To ask the Taoiseach to outline the detail of and his views on the latest Central Statistics Office report on Ireland being one of the most expensive countries in the EU. [14481/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Good Friday Agreement (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: 99. To ask the Taoiseach if a referendum on Irish unity will be planned in the near future. [14483/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: 106. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she or her Department have received any information on the GSOC report on the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14312/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Presidential Elections (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: 153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the detail of the announcement on allowing the Irish diaspora to vote for the presidential election by 2025; and his plans in this regard. [14480/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Youth Unemployment (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: 293. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when youth unemployment was last discussed at an EU Council meeting. [7358/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: 294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will report on the research to benchmark Ireland's competitiveness against the UK in the post-Brexit environment, as mentioned in the Taoiseach's speech to the IIEA in February 2017. [10423/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Strategies (22 Mar 2017)

Micheál Martin: 295. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way her Department's officials are co-ordinating and targeting access to more EU markets following the Brexit referendum result, as mentioned in the Taoiseach's recent speech to the IIEA and at the all-island civic dialogue. [10422/17]