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Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Why did the Taoiseach get rid of them?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: No. They did not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: This question is very apt given Pat Leahy had a very interesting article in today's The Irish Timeswhere anonymous but very real sources say that the poor legislative record of the Government to date has now become very poor and that it is paralysed. There are two reasons: one is the current issues within Fine Gael; and the second is that the Government is very worried that if it produces...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: God forbid. I think it is an extraordinary admission that Ministers would say the majority of the people's representatives cannot be allowed, under any circumstances, to decide the content of legislation. I think that sabotages the Oireachtas. Ministers need to get with the new situation and produce and introduce legislation and be willing to have it amended along the way, if necessary. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is as if political reform is fine as long as the Government does not have to give up any power. The Seanad issue is really dragging on. My only issue is that the chair should be someone who is passionately committed to Seanad reform and that we do not appoint somebody who is hostage to his or her colleagues in the Seanad. In other words, there will be certain interests who would not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Dáil Reform (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: They were very poor on therapies.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: On the IBRC and Siteserv inquiry and the full range of investigations that are currently under way, it might be no harm if the Taoiseach could send me a note with details of those investigations and the projected costs relating to them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: No, just the more recent ones.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: I mean the inquiries we have initiated in respect of Siteserv and other matters. These inquiries are all symptomatic of a failure by existing mechanisms and systems to deal with issues and complaints when they arise. There is something wrong with our culture in terms of our ability to transparently deal with issues professionally, be it complaints relating to An Garda Síochána or...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Information and Communications Technology (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: We are not as overly exercised about e-mails.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Information and Communications Technology (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Many people would have been surprised by the way the Minister for Social Protection had enough time on his hands to set up and administer a discussion group for the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party. Clearly he did not spend enough time showing them how to use the application properly and it has been confirmed that the old group has now been shut down and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Information and Communications Technology (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Yes. That is the new order within Fine Gael.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Information and Communications Technology (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: There is a serious point to all of this because of the growing concern that efforts may be made by Ministers to discuss public business without recording this in accordance with the law. There is an obvious difference between party political business and public business but what protection do we have to know that private e-mails and non-recorded chat groups are not being used for official...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Information and Communications Technology (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is 161.

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: It relates to the programme for Government.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Information and Communications Technology (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he has changed the protocol in his Department regarding the use of private e-mail accounts (details supplied) for Government business. [7362/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: It seems that promises made to develop regional businesses and so on are falling flat on their face, as it were, especially in terms of the two-tier recovery. The case of Norwegian Air is interesting. There was much hope in the regions in terms of the announcement from the US but it seems that there will be 12 flights per week from Dublin and that Dublin will get the bulk of the flights...

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Three plans were submitted.

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: In the months before the previous general election, plans were submitted to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. The attitude was it wanted nothing that might cause any difficulty or conflict in advance of the election. That happened and there was a political hands-off before the election. It was about avoiding the cause of any hassle or difficult decisions. In the aftermath of...

Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: We are on the verge of a major public transport strike with Bus Éireann. It seems that the previous Government sat on its hands over a two-year period. Even though various plans went to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and the National Transport Authority, nothing happened because nobody wanted to deal with these issues in the run-up to the 2016 general election. In the...