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- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Buttimer is the personification.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am asking about the Supplementary Estimate for health and requesting a debate on same. When can we expect the landlord and tenant reform Bill, and will it deal with the abolition of development levies for homes sold for under €300,000? Finally, the Garda Síochána compensation (malicious injuries) Bill has been on the legislative programme for quite some time. Given...
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: After the election.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: We were promised it would.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: What about the statement from the Department of Finance?
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why would the Department of Finance be hiding anything?
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why would the Department of Finance be hiding documents?
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is. It is asserting the right to withhold documents from third parties.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: There is no date for it.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach indicated earlier that there would be a debate in the House when Mr. Justice Brian Cregan submits to the Government his interim report on the issues that have arisen. Will the Taoiseach confirm that time will be provided to hold a debate on the report? If I picked up the Taoiseach's words correctly, he indicated a debate would be held when Mr. Justice Cregan reports.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Specifically, will the Taoiseach get the Department of Finance to clarify or the Minister of Finance to issue a statement on the reason the Department of Finance is not waiving its rights regarding the release of documents it has sent to the inquiry? The Taoiseach confirmed earlier that this was the position. This is a significant issue. It is extraordinary that a Department would retain...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he had bilateral meetings around the meeting between the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States held on 10 June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24525/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I welcome the aforementioned action plan and the issues it addresses, including sustainable development, climate change, trade and various other matters. Obviously the Taoiseach did not meet the President of Bolivia at the summit or discuss the ongoing issue of the very unsatisfactory follow through by the Bolivian Government on the execution or murder...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am interested to know if the Taoiseach had any briefings or heard any commentary about how both Europe and the Caribbean and Latin American States see the evolution of Cuba in the short to medium term. Finally, were there any functions involving Enterprise Ireland in the context of Latin America, including Brazil and Mexico? Some years ago Enterprise Ireland identified Latin America as...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: When the Taoiseach met Ban Ki-moon, did he ask him for his perspective on the idea of statehood for the Palestinians? We supported the motion on their right to a state at the time it came before the House. We had earlier indicated our support for the idea of a Palestinian state anyway. We regretted the fact that Sinn Féin kind of went solo on it. My understanding was that all parties...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I was referring to a Private Members' motion.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. He will agree that the UN Secretary General has rightly expressed his urgent concern regarding the escalation of events in Syria and the failure to put the interests of refugees first. When the Taoiseach met Ban Ki-moon, I am sure the fact Syria represents the largest humanitarian disaster for decades must have weighed on their minds. It is the direct...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Data (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff in his Department who work on www.merrionstreet.ie; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19229/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Data (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the number of civil servants and non-Civil Service staff working for the Government information service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19230/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Staff Data (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The two questions relate towww.merrionstreet.ieand the Government information service. The Taoiseach will remember that at one stage he promised to reduce the number of staff operating in the Government information service by a third. Of course, that is another broken promise in a long list of them. A wider concern is the increasing politicisation of this area and the Government...