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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (15 Apr 2015)

Micheál Martin: 594. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the commitment in the programme for Government on providing more residential places, home care packages and community care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9970/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (15 Apr 2015)

Micheál Martin: 721. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene in a situation involving a school in County Kilkenny to resolve a lengthy dispute between the parents of a child (details supplied) and the board of management of that school; the best method of resolving this dispute; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14620/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Investigation (2 Apr 2015)

Micheál Martin: 34. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the outstanding allegations of sexual abuse by members of the IRA, both in the Republic and in the North of Ireland; if this was discussed at Prime Ministerial level; if any specific actions will be taken, cross-Border or otherwise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12771/15]

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Micheál Martin: Can the Taoiseach indicate when the Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No.2 ) Bill will be introduced? It is a Bill to provide any legislative changes required to deal with the bargaining rights of trade unions, and it is included in the programme for Government. If it was in place, it would assist the Dunnes Stores workers who will be on strike tomorrow. Can the Taoiseach confirm when the...

Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Micheál Martin: These are crucial issues and we need a fuller debate in the House on them, or at least some explanation of the content and substance of those remarks.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Micheál Martin: The company is making vast profits as well.

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Micheál Martin: Tomorrow morning thousands of workers from Dunnes Stores will go on strike across the country. They do not want to do this but they are being forced. This reflects a broader casualisation of the workforce, a regressive trend towards lower pay and less security of hours. The strike tomorrow is essentially about low-hour contracts that have become the norm in certain sectors of the economy....

Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2015)

Micheál Martin: The reason I ask the Taoiseach to say he supports the Dunnes Stores workers unequivocally is because I genuinely believe a message must go out to the employer in this instance. As a former Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, I know all the usual processes and mechanisms. Dunnes Stores has refused to engage with the Labour Relations Commission or Labour Court, or to adopt its...

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach obviously got it out the wrong way today.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The groups cannot devote more than 20% of their funds to these purposes. The Taoiseach undermined them and misled people. He does this all the time.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is nasty stuff.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is wrong.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: Two thirds of the decisions.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is appalling.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said he would write to me about proposed legislation. This legislation refers to the Government commitment to bring "to an end the unacceptable Executive practice where no record is kept of ministerial involvement with an issue and resulting decisions". The Taoiseach could not answer that basic point last week. In total, 23 meetings took place between Bord Gáis and the...

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The former Minister, Phil Hogan, met with Ms Hynes in his ministerial office here with no civil servants in attendance and no notes taken. This is such a serious matter that the Taoiseach should make a statement to the House as to how that occurred. Huge amounts of public expenditure has been involved. It has been a huge debacle.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It has cost the country a fortune. The net revenue will be about €25 million in the end. It has been one botched episode after another. The Taoiseach said on page three of the programme for Government four years ago that this legislation would come in. Why was it not brought in four years ago?

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: I am talking about the Government’s record. It made this commitment on page three of its programme for Government. Last week, the Taoiseach did not answer me because he probably did not even realise it was there.

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: I want an answer to it. It does necessitate a statement. Under the Voluntary Health Insurance Acts of 1996 and 2008, the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, brought forward SI 613 of 2014, which gave today as the appointed date for VHI to make an application for authorisation by the Central Bank of Ireland. Is this happening or has the Minister authorised a new statutory instrument? When...

Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order. I asked a basic question about when the legislation committed to by the Government in its statement that "we will bring to an end the unacceptable Executive practice where no record is kept of ministerial involvement with an issue and resulting decisions" will be introduced? Would the Taoiseach please answer that question?