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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....

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Australian Government's approach was markedly different to that of the Irish Government, which is to deny repeatedly and resist and more or less say to the whistleblowers that it does not accept anything they are saying-----

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: -----and that it has no time for the manner in which they have gone about this. I have spoken to them and that is how they feel right now.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: What happened to them?

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: There was no response to the whistleblowers.

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: I want to raise a very serious issue with the Taoiseach which, on reflection, could represent a serious scandal. It involves an unacceptable response by the State regarding exposure to dangerous chemicals at the aircraft maintenance shops in Baldonnel by members of the Air Corps over many years. Three whistleblowers warned the Taoiseach and the then Minister for Defence, Deputy Simon...

Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: I am very dissatisfied with that response. The Taoiseach has not explained what happened between 2015, when the protected disclosure was made, and why the Minister, Deputy Coveney, did not acknowledge and respond to the whistleblowers. There is a sense that this has been buried. The HSA report is dated October 2016. It states that staff needed to be given equipment to protect...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 153. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Arts, Irish, the Gaeltacht and the Islands last met. [4541/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (1 Feb 2017)

Micheál Martin: 154. To ask the Taoiseach if he spoke to Prime Minister May regarding the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. [4542/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: It will be a hurley instead of a bowl of shamrock.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: Yes. I am a very reasonable man, but the issue still needs to be reviewed because it cannot be done under the existing rule.