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Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Boyd Barrett always qualifies Russian aggression.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I hope the Government is not reverting to the model that was used by the last Government when the media was briefed before information was given to the Cabinet and other interested parties. In the months since the Brexit referendum, I do not think the Government has kept the promise it made in our discussions at that time to keep pro-EU parties - all parties are allegedly pro-EU at this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if the European Union division of his Department has changed its structures since the Brexit referendum result; and if extra human resources and funding has been allocated to same. [28624/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: To be fair, Deputy Bríd Smith tabled the question. I do not wish to impose.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I am happy to give way.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I am saying I am happy to give way to Deputy Smith if she wishes to come back in.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I have always been of the view that it is difficult to see how the citizens' assembly can realistically answer the question of whether there should be a referendum on the eighth amendment and what the specific proposal, including subsequent legislation, should be. It is proceeding and I wish it well in its work. It is only when we get to the detail of what people are proposing that we can...

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

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

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: Deputy O'Callaghan is quite literate and learned in the law. His Bill, which has been published, would solve the whole problem if the Government accepted it.

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. There is the protected disclosures process but we are looking at activity here that goes beyond that and cuts to the very heart of how a police force should be operating.

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I accept that.

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: It protects the anonymity of the person who has made the disclosure but the activity that is disclosed calls for a wider approach to something that goes to the very core of what we expect from a police force.

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: We are not dealing with the Order of Business now but with promised legislation.

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I do not know if the Taoiseach has read the report in today's Irish Examinerin relation to whistleblowers being strategically undermined and under attack, both their personal and professional reputations, at the instigation of senior Garda management. Disclosures have now been made to that effect by a senior officer of the force that essentially this campaign involved dissemination of texts...

Order of Business (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: Before we proceed with that, would it be possible to get agreement to have either statements or an agreed motion on the war crimes that are currently taking place in Aleppo? It is time for the Parliament in its entirety to make a statement on this matter and, at least from a moral perspective, set out where it stands in respect of it.

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. It is accepted that we all have enormous sympathy for the civilians in Syria and we all condemn the war. Unfortunately, at this stage, that is not enough. Has it been made clear to the Russian ambassador that normal diplomatic relations as we know them with Russia must come under the closest scrutiny if this genocide continues? I do not say that...

Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: Today, the people of Aleppo in Syria are being subjected to what, by any fair definition, must be described as a war crime. Civilians are not being killed accidentally because of a conflict - they are being deliberately and repeatedly targeted. This death and destruction is no accident. It is the primary strategy of the Syrian Government and the Russian military. Women and children hiding...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: 65. To ask the Taoiseach if he had any bilateral at the informal EU council in September 2016. [28157/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: 66. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Chancellor Merkel recently regarding EU immigration in particular. [28159/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: 67. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Cabinet sub-committees which were held in September 2016. [28160/16]