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- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: There have been reports lately referring to the commitments of the Government to cut taxes at the top and lower levels. There are new reports about negotiations and the beginning of a new social dialogue or partnership. The Taoiseach may not be aware that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, said today that the Government intends to amend the FEMPI...
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: I would like to see a lot of this brought to fruition, including for example the programme for Government commitment on investment in the supply of more and better care for older people in the community. I have just asked about it during Leaders' Questions, but there is no money for it. The programme refers to additional funding each year for the care of older people, residential places,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if there is an agreed process in his Department for statutory board appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37625/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The last part of the Taoiseach's answer was the most relevant to the questions asked, which were about whether there was an agreed process in the Department of the Taoiseach for statutory board appointments. As we discovered during the Seanad by-election last year, the Taoiseach and his staff take a very active role in board appointments across the Government. That came out sharply during...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: It would be interesting to see what leopard the Deputy would bring with his totalitarian approach.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: You are in your backside.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why did he announce it at all?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: I would like to follow up on a number of the questions I asked. Will the Taoiseach name the other philosophical bodies he said he would meet? When did he last meet in structured dialogue format representatives of the Christian churches or any other church?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach indicated that he was due to meet the leaders of the Islamic and Jewish churches, but I am not clear on when he last met representatives of the main churches in the structured dialogue format established between them and the Department of the Taoiseach by the former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. I think Bertie Ahern started the idea of a structured dialogue between the Department of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: But not in the lifetime of the Government.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met church leaders recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37620/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met leaders of the Islamic faith in Dublin recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2176/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Did he indicate that he had met representatives of the churches recently?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Perhaps the Taoiseach might revert to me on his meetings with representatives of other faiths.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Has the Taoiseach met representatives of the Catholic Church recently?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Did these meetings take place recently?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: I ask the Taoiseach to revert to me on when he last met representatives of the churches as part of a structured dialogue. Will he also indicate the philosophical bodies to which he referred? It is clear from my discussions with many parents and school representatives that resources, rather than patronage, are their main concern. Early in the lifetime of the Government an announcement was...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: We have been asking for 12 months.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: We know that.