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Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach might often have heard it said that there would be no need for the establishment of statutory inquiries to inquire into issues if we had clear and transparent statements on the floor of Parliament from the Taoiseach or indeed Government Ministers about specific issues. The Taoiseach will recall that on 25 March 2014, he informed the House that the former Garda Commissioner was...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Debt Conference (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 266. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding holding a debt conference in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5473/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Meetings (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 267. To ask the Minister for Finance if he met the Governor of the Bank of England, Mr. Mark Carney, when he was in Dublin on 27 January 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5476/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Programme for Government Initiatives (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 396. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the commitment in the programme for Government to help homeowners in distress; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9971/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 615. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to explain the reason he and his Department came to the decision to allocate Leader programme funding on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12738/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 616. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the allocation under the Leader rural development programme for 2014 to 2020 to each county that he and his Department made; and the way it compares to the allocation in the previous Leader round of funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12739/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 619. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to explain the rationale of using and allocating funding to a sub-regional area; the extra areas that received funding under this category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12742/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 622. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a cost benefit analysis was carried out on the impact the new allocation of Leader funding will have in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12745/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 617. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the allocation of Leader funding to the County Cork region is 32.4% less than the previous round of funding; his views on the equitability of this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12740/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 618. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out the average of the national allocation of Leader programme funding that County Cork received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12741/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 620. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how the criteria of sub-regional areas were applied to the County Cork area given that the population of the Cork county area is twice the population of the Cork city area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12743/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 621. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he and his Department have received complaints from Leader companies regarding the funding that has been allocated to them; the way these complaints will be dealt with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12744/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 623. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has been informed that the new allocation of Leader funding by his Department will result in job losses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12746/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission Establishment (26 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the low pay commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9968/15]

Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: I refer the Taoiseach to page 3 of the programme for Government which contains a very important legislative commitment. In that context, no notes or records were kept of the series of high level meetings about Irish Water in 2012 between the then Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Commissioner Phil Hogan and the Bord Gáis chairperson, Rose Hynes. The briefing...

Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: I will explain briefly. They were held in October and November that year. According to records in Mr. Hogan's diary there were no civil servants at either meeting which took place at a time when many key issues were being considered. There were no notes for more than half of all the meetings between the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and Bord Gáis in the...

Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: I will come to it. There is a context to the question I will ask.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: A total of 23 meetings took place and of those, only ten had minutes.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is, actually.

Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: I will tell the House why. Four years ago, page 3 of the programme for Government stated, "We will legislate for a reformulated code of laws, replacing both the Ministers and Secretaries Acts and the Public Service Management Act, which will spell out the legal relationship between Ministers and their civil servants and their legal accountability for decisions and for management of...