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Order of Business (17 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: The health costings would have been enormous.

Order of Business (17 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Labour Party is moving commendably fast.

Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State (17 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: For smoking cessation.

Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State (17 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: The smoking section of the Cabinet. Thank you, Finian.

Order of Business (17 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: In the context of the programme for Government and in various discussions prior to the formation of the Government, there was considerable discussion on the issue of the casualisation of the workforce and the downward momentum in pay levels generally, particularly in the private sector and some elements of the public sector for new entrants. The circumstances of Tesco workers are...

Order of Business (17 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: The casualisation of the workforce.

Order of Business (17 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: Cardiac services.

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: Is the Minister satisfied from a legal perspective that the section of the Act concerned covers legal instructions and submissions because I have been advised that it does not cover legal instruction and submissions by senior counsel? My understanding is that it was not inquisitorial in respect of Sergeant McCabe but was, in fact, extremely adversarial and that almost every single thing was...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: I am going to put the question. Sergeant McCabe was later exonerated. That has to be said. That is what makes the revelations in last week's Irish Examiner all the more disturbing. They allege that senior counsel, on the instruction of An Garda Síochána, put forward the view that Sergeant McCabe was acting with malice.The senior counsel were questioning his motivation and...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: Has the Tánaiste spoken to the Garda Commissioner in this regard? Will she speak to the Garda Commissoner? Will she find a mechanism by which this issue can be comprehensively and transparently dealt with?

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: We have had the publication of the O'Higgins report into deficiencies, malpractice and a series of investigations at Bailieboro Garda station, the areas surrounding the station and its hinterland. We had much selective leaking and managed interpretations of the report in advance, which were disingenuous and led people down the wrong tracks. It needs to be put on the record that the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Data (17 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: 67. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of immigrants that Ireland has received from Syria; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9986/16]

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: It is not good governance that one Minister gets it for one year and swaps with a Minister the following year.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

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Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

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Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: I suggest to the Government that it needs to show confidence in what it is about because the fact it is yearly suggests that maybe the Ministers concerned are not that confident about the longevity of the Government. They need to get more confident about what they are about and what they have signed up for.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: I would like, in particular, to congratulate the Minister, Deputy Ross.

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: I want to let Deputy Ross know that my late father was a founding member of the NBU and we will be watching the Deputy closely. It is 35 years since Deputy Ross first acceded to a hereditary seat as a Trinity Senator. Since then he has been a constant presence in Irish public life. He has been a senior journalist, stockbroker, Fine Gael councillor for Bray and regular media commentator....

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: That said, we wish all Ministers well in their various endeavours. We will work to hold them to account. We want to work constructively in terms of this Dáil and in terms of tackling the problems that face the people and bringing about effective solutions to those issues, because what matters is improving the quality of life of the people of this country. The Fianna Fáil Party is...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: We need to reinvigorate the working of the agreed institutions and policies.  We need a Government that accepts its role as a co-guarantor of agreements, and this includes insisting that the dominant parties in the North meet their obligations. Our agreement with Fine Gael includes a commitment to seek to expand North-South activities. We want this to be activated immediately to stop...