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Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I have long been campaigning for therapists to go into the school classroom. That was the case with special schools until Progressing Disability came along. It is threatening to dilute the presence of such therapists in the special schools. The arrangement should be extended into mainstream schools across the country. My key question for the Taoiseach is based on the fact that the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I accept that point, but this only arises because the Act is not in place and does not provide for the assessment of children at the earliest stage possible. Does the Taoiseach not accept that, at the very minimum, someone in the Departments responsible for education and health and the Taoiseach's Department should have reviewed all this and identified the obstacles and policy response...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I met those concerned and know all about them. I am talking about the Act.

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: The EPSEN Act was passed in 2005. It deals with special education and was meant to confer statutory rights on children with special needs in terms of assessment and the provision of individual education plans. What is quite extraordinary is that 11 years on key sections of the legislation have never been commenced. It is those sections which confer on children the right to an assessment...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: There is nothing in the budget.

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: Without question, one of the most disappointing aspects of yesterday's budget from a strategic perspective was the lack of any substantial response to the challenges of Brexit. What we were presented with was a sheet entitled Getting Ireland Brexit Ready which amounted to mere tokenism and was quite pathetic in itself. All of the measures on it would have happened anyway. Some were in...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer the core question of currency. The budget failed in properly addressing the Brexit issue. Any commentary on the budget in relation to Brexit is negative in opinion outside of this House and across the board. The budget is assuming a base scenario for next year of 85p sterling to the euro. Is the Taoiseach satisfied that that is a solid basis on which to plan...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: I thought the Deputy said that the Minister delivered our budget.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is flogging a dead horse.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (11 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: 38. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she or her Department is concerned about the recent reports - weekend of 25 September - of allegations of sex abuse in Waterford being known well before arrests were made; if her Department will examine the complaints; if she will discuss the complaints with the Garda Commissioner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29752/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met. [28622/16]

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

Micheál Martin: I do not think there has been a meeting on Brexit since the first meeting.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (4 Oct 2016)

Micheál Martin: That is outrageous.

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...