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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (9 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 155. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of officials in his Department that have expertise in custom trade agreements; if he is satisfied there are enough officials qualified in same; if his Department or another Department is taking a lead in this particular area in the context of Brexit negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6569/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (9 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 251. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department is outsourcing expertise on custom trade agreements or her views that her Department has enough resources in the section in her Department that covers trade agreements particularly applying to Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6570/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Records (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is very good that the State releases archives. It is probably the one centre in a democracy that has the capacity to release comprehensive archives. Not all actors in dramatic situations are in a position to release their archives or are disposed to do so. It is positive. Normally, the release of archives is a smooth operation. During recent years, for some reason, a new practice has...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Records (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Apologies.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: That was probably one of the biggest fibs of all time, because that has come and gone.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy should relax.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: It had nothing to do with the children's hospital but he needed a hook on which to hang the privatisation of the lottery. As a left-wing Deputy, he had to hang it on some type of hook.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: That was €1 billion. The Deputy knows what I am saying - the management of it was.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The other issue is that projects such as the Cork to Limerick motorway are on ice. It is major infrastructure. If we are to deal with the difference between Dublin and the west there must be infrastructure in the west. The third point is that this time last year, the Taoiseach dug a sod in Cork, allegedly to confirm that the events centre was starting. It was a very cynical political...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: I do, because nothing happened.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: He has just announced to the newspaper that we need another €10 million.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy has. It was in the Evening Echolast night.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Coveney had it advertised on the back of every bus in Cork before the election, which is not-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Coveney is very sensitive about it obviously.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Varadkar killed that project.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: That was not the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on infrastructure, environment and climate action will next meet. [5764/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Hold on.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is the first time I have seen someone answer a Taoiseach before he has replied and thanking him for his reply.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: In terms of infrastructure generally, it is clear that there is a broader issue here. The Government does not seem to have any imaginative or creative proposals to deal with the infrastructural bottlenecks and the necessary projects that will be required over the medium term. The previous capital plan was a five-year plan and in the first two years, very little happened because all of the...