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Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I did not know that.

Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Could I quickly take the opportunity to articulate my deepest sympathies and those of the Fianna Fáil Party at the appalling mass murder in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando last Saturday night? Our thoughts and prayers are with all those who have been bereaved and with the victims. It was an assault on the entire LGBT community in the US and globally. It represented a fundamental attack...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance his involvement and interaction with the fiscal council. [15602/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 445. To ask the Minister for Health his role in formulating a cross-government policy on drugs. [15314/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Responsibilities (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 605. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her role in formulating research and innovation policy at Government level. [15313/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 626. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the European Commission's plan to reinvigorate the Mercorsor talks; if Ireland has an official position on these; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9982/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 627. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the latest developments at European Union Council level on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10685/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (9 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 193. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding nursing homes (details supplied). [15265/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (9 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 195. To ask the Minister for Health if it is appropriate for health service managers to relocate nursing home residents against their will and without the consent of their families. [15291/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (9 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 196. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which health service managers take into account the impact on the health of nursing home residents when they are being transferred to other residential units without their consent. [15292/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (9 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 197. To ask the Minister for Health if health service managers are planning to have single gender residential units. [15293/16]

Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Turf, is it?

Order of Business (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: In the programme for legislation this session, which was published this morning, and in the confidence and supply agreement to facilitate a Fine Gael-led minority Government between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael it was very explicitly stated: "The Government will, within six weeks of its appointment, introduce and support legislation in the Oireachtas to suspend domestic water charges for a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach told me for five years it was.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach actually stated he was going to take over health.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach was never Minister but he declared to me in this Chamber that, and I believe the wording was, he was going to be taking personal responsibility for health.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Admittedly, it was at a difficult moment in the tenure of the then Minister, Senator James Reilly, and the Taoiseach was exasperated at that point in time. It appears to me as though the Taoiseach did not take personal charge of health for far too long. This has already been discussed during Leaders' Questions but the very fact the Government was obliged to produce €500 million...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach might explain that. He is a man of greater literary competence than am I and he might illustrate the difference between the two. I suggest its demise as a consequence of its abandonment by the Government.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I wonder how the former Tánaiste, Deputy Burton, thinks now. She was a great advocate of its removal a few years ago-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: -----but the Taoiseach steadfastly refused to countenance that at the time. In many ways, it is questionable as to whether it was ever constitutional. In many ways, it was a kind of Cabinet cartel between the Tánaiste of the day, the then Minister, Deputy Howlin, the Minister, Deputy Noonan, and the Taoiseach. The rest of the Cabinet did not get to see much until it was afait...