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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: I would make the point that my position has always been very clear in terms of commissions of investigation and tribunals. The principle of innocent until proven guilty is an important one that we cannot jettison too easily in the House. It also affects future commissions. For example, we could have a commission of investigation into Project Eagle. Does that mean that the directors or the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Things are particularly intense at the moment so people will bring up different issues. I accept that there are challenges. The Policing Authority was established to depoliticise the-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: -----appointments but also the administration of justice and policing, so to a certain extent politicians are contradicting themselves. If there is a call to be made, it should be left to the Policing Authority to determine the issue pertaining to the Commissioner. The Policing Authority has already made a comment, which some Deputies have pointed out is perhaps of a qualified nature in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: They were qualified because there was a deliberate political attempt made to suggest we were protecting somebody, which we are not. Does Deputy Howlin understand? The issue was the principle that one is innocent until found guilty.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: That is the principle I would have always observed in the conduct of public affairs-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: -----and particularly in the context of commissions of investigation because what could quickly follow is that when future ones are established, before we even have an investigation, everybody in a position of authority would have to step aside if that precedent is established. That is the point I am making in the calmer environment of this Question Time but I put it to the Taoiseach that it...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Finally, the Garda Inspectorate is that international overview body. I know the members of the Independent Alliance have to find some way out of whatever but we have to give up that kind of politics. It is the idea that they need to have a hook to hang or whatever acquiescence so therefore someone magics up an international review. We have already had that. It is ongoing and it is very...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: One of the strongest messages participants in the dialogue conveyed is that there is an enormous amount of concern, fear and anxiety and that there have been many questions but not too many answers to those questions. The Taoiseach is aware that the statement from London yesterday that restrictions will be applied to all arriving in Great Britain after a certain date next month shows that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach his latest update on Brexit following the Dublin Castle event on 18 February 2017. [8466/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Do not.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: That is there.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not know last week.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: May I ask a question on the same issue?

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: I am not asking about the legislation, rather I would just like to make a short point.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: I have been involved with others in this case for about a year. As a Parliament, we must be honest. I do not think the legislative issue is going to resolve this situation.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: I am only interested in the child getting access to the best treatment.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: We need paediatric neurology in this country to come to grips with this issue and to make some presentation on a pathway towards medical people dealing with the evidence in relation to it. We also need a response to the recently produced report which suggests a pathway to the application of medicinal cannabis for Dravet syndrome.

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The two reports published at 11 a.m. today on the failures in a foster home in Waterford, where 47 children were placed over two decades until 2013, are utterly shocking, as has been said. They have been correctly described by the Irish Examiner as 20 years of horror for one of the children, Grace, a young woman with profound special needs who was left in a foster home for almost 20 years....

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is proud of it. There are 55 actions. It goes much more beyond the Expressway service.

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Grant Thornton report was submitted to the then Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Donohoe, and others in January 2016 and the Government sat on it. Why? It was because of the general election. The Government did not want to deal with it. It went on for a full year and a bit and then in one fell swoop, the Government has stated the workers will take the brunt for the...