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- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach's belated endorsement of Deputy McGuinness is noted.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: One could not make it up, in terms of administration or operating any taxation system.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is all the Taoiseach can say.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Barry Cowen is sighing. He does not believe the Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government has invested less money during the past three years than was invested during the previous three.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government has spent €780 million.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Tell it to the people.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: We oppose the mess the Government created.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government has introduced approximately 40 new taxes during the past three years, including property tax and water tax. The Taoiseach should read George Orwell again. He is the man for the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Irish Water has only collected 46% of expected revenue despite bills falling due in the past two months. Only 43% of the expected customer base of 1.5 million people have paid up. If that rate of payment continues, the Government will take in approximately €120 million, while it will have paid out approximately €130 million. The water conservation grant will amount to...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: One will get paid for not paying one's water bill.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is extraordinary. Why would pay it at all if that is the case?
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why would one pay the water charge if one gets the €100 in any event? Those who have paid must be looking askance at the situation having learned of it this morning. Even if one is not an Irish Water customer, one will get the €100. If one does not pay one's bill, one will get the €100. Could the Taoiseach explain the reason a person would get a €100...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach a simple question and as usual he did everything but answer it. Could he explain why a person would get a €100 conservation grant even if that person does not pay his or her water bill?
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is a very simple question. It is a question that is connected to people who pay because they are wondering why one would bother paying under the regime the Government has established.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Under that regime, one gets €100 if one does not bother paying one's bill. The bottom line is that given the rate of compliance, as of now the Government is losing money as a result of the introduction of the water charge. That is a fact. The Government has been forced into U-turn after U-turn.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The net result is that following the introduction of the water tax, at the end of the year the Government will be down by between €35 million and €50 million. It is some feat to introduce a tax and lose money as a result of it. Only stubbornness and pig-headedness is driving the Government on in terms of trying to create the impression that all is well, but if the Taoiseach...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will not try to convince the Taoiseach that the situation is one of high farce right now in terms of how people look at the edifice that has been created and the extraordinarily farcical situation whereby if someone does not pay his or her bill, he or she will get a conservation grant.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the request for extra special needs assistants she and her Department have received from a special school (details supplied) in County Cork; the allocation the school has now received; if the school is satisfied with its allocation for 2015-2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29316/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (15 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she or her Department have received a request for a special needs assistant for a pupil (details supplied) who has many challenging behaviours, as well as autism, and who is attending a school in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29317/15]