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Order of Business (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: I am offering our assistance and co-operation on it-----

Order of Business (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----as a practical response. There will be many rhetorical responses and the like.

Order of Business (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: If I may, a Cheann Comhairle, I omitted to mention something in my first contribution. The Taoiseach invited me and other party leaders to a meeting next Tuesday regarding Judge Cregan's investigation into the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, assets. Will there be an outcome before the general election in terms of an inquiry being established? Next week is the last sitting week for...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Regarding the Taoiseach's visit to the United States, I accept fully that the issue of the undocumented is not one that can now be resolved by the Government here alone. As a former Minister for Foreign Affairs, I have been involved in this issue. It seems to me that the situation is deteriorating, given the political environment in the United States and the hardening of attitudes towards...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Can I ask a brief supplementary?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: I would make the point that somebody who tables a question gets the same treatment as somebody who does not even bother tabling one.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: I do not think Deputy Boyd Barrett did.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Okay, I had two questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding his address to the United Nations in September 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33971/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: 14. To ask the Taoiseach the bilaterals he had while he attended the United Nations in September 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33973/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is chancing his arm.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach use the word "rush"?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet committee on health met to discuss health services during September 2015. [32869/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: The committee met on 2 November and 13 July.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: I presume the other five meetings were before July-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----if there were eight meetings.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: The health situation is in chaos, morale is at an all-time low and a fundamental decision has been taken by the Government to end the implementation of the universal health insurance scheme, which was a pillar of Government policy for the past five years and of the Fine Gael Party for the past decade. The programme for Government was consistently very clear over the past five years that...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: I do not think that is good enough.

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: I genuinely do not want to make a political issue out of this. The Taoiseach gave a good weather forecast, and it is important that people know what is coming down the tracks, but I get the sense in the towns that have been affected that people want to know when action will be taken. The relief scheme for Bandon, which was badly flooded in 2009, has not been carried out and the capital...

Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach indicate whether capital works will proceed and what will be the timescale involved? Deputy Keaveney's parliamentary question to the Minister of State, Deputy Simon Harris, specified works that were to be done. If these works had been done, much of the damage that has occurred could have been averted. Will the Taoiseach undertake to have this matter reviewed and an...