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Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Prime Minister May on 30 January 2017. [4116/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is seven months since the Brexit referendum. The failure to go beyond generalities has now gone from frustrating to causing widespread concern. In past negotiations, such as those on the fiscal treaty and EU debt terms, the Taoiseach perfected a strategy of refusing to say what he was looking for until the negotiations were over, after which he would declare the negotiations as a major...

Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: First Stage (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: There are many good ballad singers with the surname "Donnelly".

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is a serious matter.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: We did not have that response over the civilians in Aleppo. There are double standards going on here. Thousands of innocent children were murdered by Russian forces and President Assad's, but we do not get the same response from over there at all.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: The programme for Government commits to ending the casualisation of the workforce. I have raised with the Taoiseach the need for greater protection for employees on insecure and low-hour contracts. Many people on zero-hour contracts go from week to week not knowing what they are going to earn or when they are required to work. They are waiting at home for a phone call and have insecure...

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: I wish to make an observation. We have had no contact with any of the other parties which have just spoken about any move-----

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Boyd Barrett thinks he runs the show in the Business Committee.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: In a former time, when I sought to change a ruling of the Business Committee I was rounded on by the people who have just stood up and spoken. They rounded on me in very bad terms, at the Business Committee and subsequently.

Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: I have just debated the executive order with the Taoiseach and I have no objection to anything but I do not like shallow grandstanding. I put to the Taoiseach the idea of a cross-party motion and I have no difficulty working with other parties to achieve a cross-party motion. I have no difficulty in having a debate on this issue. I am just observing that some Members object strenuously...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has not answered any of the specific questions I put to him. The essential issue is the moral authority that governs the enactment of the executive order. I ask the Taoiseach if he would publicly state that the ban is morally wrong and violates the Geneva Convention in respect of refugees and discriminates on the basis of religion and nationality. Does the Taoiseach accept...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: Ireland and the United States of America have always had a very special and historical relationship and all efforts should be focused on maintaining that. That said, the events of the past seven days have left people extremely concerned about what is happening. Apart from the casual attempt to humiliate the Mexican President, there has been an executive order essentially arbitrarily banning...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: 574. To ask the Minister for Health the role of his Department on the commitment in the confidence and supply arrangement on fully implementing A Vision for Change in the area of mental health. [38670/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (31 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: 575. To ask the Minister for Health if any decision has been made in relation to the reimbursement of Respreeza; if he or his Department or HSE officials have plans to meet the patients impacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4319/17]

European Council: Statements (25 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: This is a defining moment in both European and international affairs. Every day we see more and more evidence of deep threats to social, economic and political progress. The cause of active, law-bound co-operation between states is being actively undermined, and regressive efforts are under way to try to return the world to a failed model of competition which brought so much poverty and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Prime Minister of Spain, Mr. Mariano Rajoy, held on 12 January 2017; the issues that were discussed regarding Brexit; the responses that he received; and if youth unemployment and immigration were discussed. [1904/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is clear that Spain has a problem with the issue of special status post-Brexit. It was said in the House of Commons yesterday that Spain would block Scotland from getting a different deal. Is that the Taoiseach’s understanding from his meetings with the Spanish Prime Minister, Mr. Rajoy? Did the Spanish Prime Minister tell the Taoiseach that Spain will oppose special status for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: Did Sinn Féin inform the Government that it was going to collapse the Northern Ireland Assembly and insist on an election? As a co-guarantor of the agreement, the Government would, surely, have been entitled to advance consultation, particularly from a Nationalist party. Was the demand that the First Minister step down during an inquiry raised with the Taoiseach before it was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: Can the Taoiseach respond?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2017)

Micheál Martin: That is not true. The Deputy is giving "alternative facts".