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Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: -----and be in the vanguard of new technologies. I apologise, a Cheann Comhairle, and I thank you.

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: On 19 October last, I raised the need to give access to the Orkambi drug to cystic fibrosis, CF, patients. I pointed out that we have the highest number of people per head of population with cystic fibrosis. We should be in the vanguard in terms of research and new drug technologies. Since I last raised this matter, I met Jillian McNulty who has CF and who has been on Orkambi for three...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reform (30 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: 157. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to continue the process of dismantling the HSE and evolving it into a health commission in view of the programme for Government commitment in this regard. [34869/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: Is Deputy Canney passing on the baton in February?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: Could the Taoiseach outline the specific staffing resources assigned purely to managing relations between Fine Gael and the other Government Deputies? Could he send it on to me if he does not have it at his disposal, as well as the individual arrangements pertaining to the Independent Ministers and Ministers of State?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: Arising from that, what is the arrangement for the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, and the incoming Minister of State, Deputy Moran?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: He is to become Minister of State in February. They tossed a coin as to who would get the first attempt at being Minister of State.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: Will Deputy Moran get the same adviser that Deputy Canney has or will he have the luxury of picking his own? This is a very unprecedented thing to happen, to be honest. I have never come across a situation before in which turns are given to people on the basis that it is one person's turn one year and another person's turn the next, and that a coin is tossed over it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: In my naivety, I asked if it was for the full term of two and a half years each. One of the Deputies looked at me as if I had lost my marbles and said, "Are you joking me? Sure this thing will not last at all. We will go one year at a time". Someone should intervene and stop that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Advisers can have an important role in the context of Government. I have no difficulty with that. There are six non-members of Fine Gael in the Administration and a handful of other Deputies in the arrangement for supporting the Government. It is quite intriguing that Deputy Harty, who does not have ministerial status, has access to an adviser. We...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: I met that individual during the talks with the Independents. He came across as a very intelligent, pragmatic person who has had his work cut out for him since. He must be finding it very testing and challenging indeed to keep the Minister focused on his ministerial duties.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: I have to question whether that is an effective use of resources. Can the Taoiseach outline the specific staffing resources? I take it that their focus is the implementation of Government policy and proper co-ordination and cohesion on policy. We are also advised that the person responsible for transport suddenly has a greater interest in justice and is dictating the scene there, to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: The biggest potential non-standard shock to the economy that the national risk assessments consider is the Brexit vote. I do not get a sense that the nation is possessed of the grave threat that Brexit poses to our economic model. It fundamentally changes what we have been working with for 50 years in terms of us being with Britain in a European Single Market. The ESRI, with the Department...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: Ar mo shon féin agus ar son pháirtí Fhianna Fáil, ba mhaith liom comhbhrón a dhéanamh le clann de Barra ar bhás Peter agus le páirtí Fhine Gael. Polaiteoir agus fear ghnó den scoth a bhí ann. Duine cneasta, lách agus éirimiúil ab ea é. D'oibrigh sé go dian dícheallach Domhnach is dálach ar son a...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: That is an unexpected promotion.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: There are expert leakers.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: One of the more optimistic sentences in the programme for Government reads, "We are committed to sustaining the progress made to date on waiting lists, and are committed to" further investment, etc. As the Taoiseach will be aware, the reality is that the waiting lists have gone in the opposite direction and are at an all-time record high. Quite appalling figures in a range of medical...

Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: It was not.

Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order-----

Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: Can I make a point before anybody discusses anything? Could we get the precedence and the protocols for what happens when leaders of state die?