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Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not address the core issue I put to him. Cuts in allocations are happening throughout the country.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is an insult to people when the Taoiseach says that they did fabulous work, particularly when he then seeks to screw them. He is undermining their authority, autonomy and independence.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should please stop insulting people by uttering meaningless platitudes.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach stated that - miraculously - the position has now changed. It did not just now change. The former Minister, Phil Hogan, saw this as a political issue and he wanted to gain control of the funds in order that he might divvy them up. There are two issues which arise.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: In the first instance, overall Pillar 2 funding was reduced and, in the second, the Government did not live up to its promise on 50-50 funding. In the context of matching funding in respect of Leader programmes, only 37% is being provided by the Government. The reduction in funding in all of the counties to which I refer has been quite severe. Will the Taoiseach please address the...

European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: Last week's summit involved no significant breakthrough on any of the major issues facing the European Union. While there are very important policies being rolled out or discussed at the moment, they were not on the agenda, rendering the summit itself more of a sideshow than a main event. A defining feature of the last four years has been the Government's non-stop effort to spin everything...

European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: Clearly, the decision to seek room for an additional €1.5 billion is the first move towards the spring statement and is intended to allow the announcement of as many initiatives as possible. The European semester process that the Taoiseach signed off on last week is designed to give transparency and certainty to policy. Due to the Taoiseach's approach, though, we are getting...

Order of Business (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: Ballyhale Shamrocks.

Order of Business (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday, over 100 repossession cases were scheduled for the Circuit Court in Castlebar. Throughout the country there has been an increasing number of such cases in different courts. Given that Castlebar is the Taoiseach's own home town, will he accept at long last that the number of repossession cases is out of hand? It is indicative that the Government's response to the mortgage crisis...

Order of Business (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: I know. I am coming to the Bill. There were approximately 600 beatings in the North in recent years. I wish to ask three questions. First, when can we expect the criminal justice Bill to be published? Second, has this issue been discussed at any stage at the North-South ministerial meetings? Third, will the Taoiseach allow time in the House to discuss the content of the RTE programme...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: These questions were tabled approximately five months ago. The Ceann Comhairle noted the long time lag between tabling and discussing them. However, the Taoiseach has reduced by half the number of times he must deal with questions. Before his time, questions to the Taoiseach were taken twice a week. Whenever the Taoiseach misses a session because he happens to be missing on a Tuesday, as...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: The system is highly restrictive, including in respect of the questions we can ask the Taoiseach.

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

Micheál Martin: To cut back.

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

Micheál Martin: That is the Department responsible for cutting medical cards. Medical card probity?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): International Summits (24 Mar 2015)

Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the Asia-Europe meeting he attended in October 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46769/14]

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...