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Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. My party's whip has e-mailed the Business Committee to express our view that in light of the revelations in last night's "RTE Investigates" programme, we require an opportunity to have a fuller and more comprehensive debate about the capacity of the health service in the context of this year's health service plan to meet the needs that clearly arise. I refer in particular...

Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: That will be a very limited debate.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The way the waiting lists are calculated was changed in many years - 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2014. The most recent change has been to extend the targets to 18 months, which is extraordinary. Why did the Government bury the National Treatment Purchase Fund in 2011? We could never get an answer as to why the former Minister, Senator James Reilly, did that. He took away a capacity...

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: It did the job. Some people did not like it that it did the job.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: It happened before in the case of other disciplines when children underwent operations elsewhere if they could not be done in Crumlin. That at least should have happened with instances of scoliosis because many Deputies were bringing those cases to the attention of the Government over the past three to four years. We were told it would be sorted and it was not.

Leaders' Questions (7 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: Last night's edition of "RTE Investigates" revealed very deep suffering among men, women and children across the country because of the lack of proper funding and strategies to address waiting times in hospitals. We saw the human stories behind the figures and they were quite harrowing, particularly in the case of young children with scoliosis. The programme was a shameful and disgraceful...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (7 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 104. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the actions she and her Department have taken since she met persons (details supplied); and if there has been discussions or meetings with the Taoiseach and his Department. [5536/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (7 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 119. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the actions being taken on the death of a person (details supplied) following her most recent meeting with the person's family; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5537/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Services Provision (7 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 668. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the commitment in the programme for Government on rural transport. [4119/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: There is very little evidence of progress in delivering new social housing. The last approval recorded was in January 2016 and many local authorities did not even build one social house last year. The HAP system is proving particularly challenging for many people who are renting, because of the thresholds. There is an over-reliance on that in building new council housing. Our social...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met. [4540/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: That was in the original press release.

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: There are many people who would argue that the Taoiseach should never go to Davos. I am not one of those.

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: No. I have been there before. Davos will not change the world economy. It will have no impact on the world economy-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: -----but it is a very good forum in which to promote Ireland and to engage with people who invest in Ireland. Ireland cannot solve all the global problems of the world but the bottom line is that Apple employ thousands of people in my city, as does EMC, Facebook and Google. All of those companies employ thousands of people.

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: I put this to the Taoiseach that whether we like it or not, over the past 30 years Irish industrial policy has been successful in bringing thousands of jobs to this country. That is never acknowledged by those Members who have spoken before me. The plight of the workers in those companies is never acknowledged. I have worked in enterprise. I have worked with IDA Ireland to try to bring in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: They accused Germany of being a currency manipulator similar to China and others. The absence of policy in that context is very serious and too frequently we are playing catch up. We are doing everything on a case-by-case basis. Does the Taoiseach not think it is long past time for a formal White Paper on the European Union to be produced by him and the Cabinet committee?

Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Davos and any meetings that he attended with companies (details supplied). [3070/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: As the Taoiseach would accept, the EU is facing a deep and growing series of threats. Ireland is very much in the front line of these threats in terms of a move away from free trade and shared rule making and efforts to change tax rules. The pressure on the Government concerning the EU is dramatically higher than it has been at almost any time over the past 50 years. It seems that the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The programme for Government includes significant commitments on social housing in particular, for example, a commitment to the delivery of more than 3,300 social houses in 2017. The delivery and execution of that commitment has been abysmal. I put it to the Taoiseach that minimal, if any, social houses have been built over the past 12 months and that progress in this matter is very poor....