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Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Of course, the Taoiseach should know.

Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that the project has not been included in the health capital plan and nothing can happen if it is not included in it. There is no point saying to the hospital, "Scale it down, we want a lesser plan"-----

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (2 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are impediments in European Union legislation to changing Irish legislation to give all Irish citizens access to the free fees scheme for third level, regardless of their residency status, to enable them to access the scheme without having to be resident here for three of the five years prior to making their entry application to third...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: I am very disappointed with the Minister's reply. It is too cold. I asked him to meet the couple and he should meet them. They can inform him on why there are issues across the hospital system. He is saying he has been informed by the HSE and the Coombe hospital. The Coombe hospital has not covered itself in glory in regard to this case. There are fundamental lessons to be learned from...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: So did I-----

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----and I met them.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Minister could have a separate independent inquiry.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Thank you, Acting Chairman. I thank the Minister for Health for attending the Chamber. Last week-----

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: If Members would not mind, as this is a serious and sensitive issue. There are people listening in the Visitors Gallery and a little decorum might be called for. Last Tuesday evening, I had a meeting with a couple, Catherina and Stephen McGarry, from Sallynoggin, Dublin. On November 27 1991, 24 years ago, their daughter Jennifer Anna was born in the Coombe hospital. It was a forceps...

Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: The internal opposition should be consulted.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is a programme for Government commitment.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: That response is meaningless.

Order of Business (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, signed the commencement order for the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation, but there is much confusion in terms of the unions that did not sign up to the Lansdowne Road agreement. As the Taoiseach is aware, members of the ASTI, the TUI and the Association of Garda Sergeants...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: My point is that there is something fundamentally wrong in respect of the meetings, the structure, the number of meetings the Government has been having, the lack of joined-up thinking and the lack of urgency shown on this issue. That is why we are experiencing chaos for many families and crises in dealing with homelessness across the board and in housing supply. The Government's own...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach now confirming that they will be guillotined?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is not what it said.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times that a Cabinet sub-Committee met at which housing was discussed. [35261/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply because he said the Cabinet committee on Construction 2020, housing, planning and mortgage arrears has met eight times. The structure the Taoiseach has in place, and the number of times that committee has met, are inadequate when measured against the degree to which this problem has escalated in the past four years and grown to crisis levels in respect of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: Fianna Fáil was the only party which supported and campaigned for the retention of Seanad Éireann, although we wanted a reformed Seanad. I think that following the referendum most people were of the view that reform was required and should happen. That was the overwhelming perspective received from the people. At the meeting in July, to which all the leaders were summoned by...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Micheál Martin: That is fair enough.