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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: In his supplementary reply to me the Taoiseach said the Cabinet sub-committee on social policy had met on 23 February, but he subsequently informed me that the sub-committee had been merged with the Cabinet sub-committee on public service reform. Therefore, the questions predate the merger and the Taoiseach should have spoken about the new merged entity in his response. This is important...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: On the social impact.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It always used to happen.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social policy last met. [46771/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is approximately five months since these questions were originally tabled. It would be useful, therefore, if the Taoiseach could indicate the number of occasions on which the Cabinet committee on social policy met during the past 12 months and when it last met prior to the tabling of these questions. Questions to the Taoiseach only take place once a week now as a result of a decision...

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: There was a time Eric, it was back in 1985 I think-----

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It was in 1985, 1986, 1987.

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The language used by the Taoiseach goes to the core of the problem. He has said they are "sitting down and working it out." Working what out?

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: I accept the need for fair procedure and due process but the idea now seems to be emerging that, behind the scenes, the two bodies are going to sit down and work it out. Work what out? The job of HIQA is to investigate and come to conclusions. These conclusions may be unpalatable to the HSE, but their full extent and range should not be up for grabs or "sorted out" behind the scenes. Are...

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It has not been put to it.

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: With respect, the Taoiseach should change his terminology. He is playing with words. It suggests the board is against the investigation.

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: What the Taoiseach is saying is very worrying.

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: We do not know that; we do not know anything about it.

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The entity being investigated is selectively leaking what is going on.

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is not the only party to be wildly off the mark.

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: I wish to raise the issue of the unedifying spectacle of the HSE threatening legal injunctions against the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, in the context of an investigation into quality, patient safety and standards of service at the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise. The background to this is that, more than one year ago, the chief medical officer, Dr. Tony Holohan,...

Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: We need to be sensitive to the parents of babies who have died at the hospital and their absolute need for the full truth to emerge unhindered. I put it to the Taoiseach that this could be a defining moment for HIQA, its independence and its capacity to investigate without being emasculated, undermined or, to put it more bluntly, told to "shut up" or to pull its punches behind the scenes....

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Northern Ireland Issues (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 146. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, regarding the recent bombing in the North; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11111/15]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Northern Ireland Issues (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 147. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, in February 2015, regarding the Stormont House Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11112/15]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Risk Assessment (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 148. To ask the Taoiseach when his Department will publish the 2015 National Risk Assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11356/15]