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Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: We were not up late, actually.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: Will the Government give specific time for discussion of the health Estimates, because there is total confusion in terms of what health has received in this year's budget? The huge supplementary provision of €600 million illustrates the dishonesty that has been at the centre of health Estimates over the past three years. This has caused significant distress in hospitals and led to...

Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: However, the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, explicitly denies that. Will the Taoiseach provide Government time for a debate on the health Estimate and on broader health issues, because there is chaos and a lack of morale in the system? On the programme for Government legislative commitments on housing and distressed mortgages, it is interesting that it was written into the...

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: That figure was reduced to €88 million last year.

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: No, it is not.

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is a crisis, not a challenge. It is an emergency now, not in 2020.

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Government must increase the rent supplement to provide for this to happen.

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday's budget gave a very strong indication that the Government has no concept, or sense, of the urgency of the homeless crisis in our society. The Government is not possessed of any sense of urgency in relation to it, as eloquently articulated yesterday evening by Fr. Peter McVerry in his reaction to the lack of any action in the budget on this matter. It is interesting to note that...

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: With the greatest respect-----

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said that he did not interfere but the problem has got dramatically worse.

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The number of children who are homeless has doubled since October 2014. The same applies to the number of families in emergency accommodation. That is the point. He has done nothing.

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: He has not interfered and it is the absence of interference which is exasperating the problem. The Taoiseach spoke about the rent supplement. A decision has not been made to increase it. He mentioned discretionary powers of welfare officers. In Limerick, only six cases were successful in the past 12 months. The Taoiseach should stop with the fig leaves.

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach throws a sop to the poor Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, saying he is working very hard, but he is not.

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: He was rebuffed by the Taoiseach and Fine Gael in the lead up to this particular budget but I am more interested in the figures since October 2014. If we look at the figures prepared by Threshold and the Simon Community , we have gone from eight families seeking emergency accommodation in October 2014 to a situation now where approximately 70 families seek such accommodation weekly. The...

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----two new families a day are now seeking emergency accommodation with no action being taken on rent certainty or on rent supplement. Rents are projected to increase by 20% in Dublin alone over the next 12 months, with thousands more repossessions in line. The banks are talking about 25,000 repossessions next year. The inaction is the core of the issue. The Government has run out of road...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: Labour's way or Frankfurt's way.

Deaths of Garda and Members of the Traveller Community: Expressions of Sympathy (13 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: Ba mhaith liom, ar son mo pháirtí agus ar mo shon féin, comhbhrón a dhéanamh le muintir Uí Loinsigh, Uí Chonchúir agus Gilbert as ucht an chaillte ollmhóir a tharla dóibh i rith an deireadh seachtaine seo caite. Is dochreidte an méid daoine, go háirithe leanaí óga, a fuair bás i gCarraig Mhaighin. Is léir go...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Northern Ireland Issues (13 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: 153. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her concerns regarding the recent revelations regarding Irish Republican Army activity in criminality in Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32847/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Numbers (13 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: 154. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to allow more refugees from war-torn countries like Syria to reside here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28226/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff Data (13 Oct 2015)

Micheál Martin: 291. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Departmental officials who are allocated, involved and responsible for the introduction of universal health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28223/15]