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- Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: When will that Bill come before the House? On the universities (amendment) Bill, which deals with the university sector, the latest reports unfortunately indicate that some of our universities have lost their positioning within the top 200 league table. Clearly, university funding is a core issue. Will the Taoiseach indicate when that Bill will be published?
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: You could not make it up.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Question No. 7 on Mr. Alex Salmond is related to this issue. Will the Taoiseach seek a meeting with the British Prime Minister in light of the result of the Scottish referendum? There have been post-referendum suggestions that the constitutional relationship between Scotland and the Westminster Parliament may be reconsidered, as may the entire constitutional edifice between Westminster and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Come on, that is the point.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is the politics that is damaging. I will put the question to the Taoiseach, namely, is this not the kind of politics that damages faith and undermines trust? What does having a quasi-referendum in County Armagh - when one knows the result anyway - say to the Unionist community? It is a bit like Crimea and so on, in that we will just have a partitioned one again; we will just have a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is playing the politics Deputy Adams accused me and others of doing earlier. I put it to the Taoiseach that if we wish to build trust between the parties in the North, we should work the agreement to which we all signed up and under which there is an obligation on every party. The Good Friday Agreement was passed by the people of Ireland and they voted for that. They did not vote for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: It was long before the Tory party cuts.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: And I know a lot about it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Absolutely.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: There has been very little movement on the North-South strand. Additional avenues could be pursued, new bodies could be established and the range of projects usefully addressed by the existing bodies could be broadened. Enterprise is one area that springs to mind. There could be significant gains through Enterprise Ireland and Invest Northern Ireland. I recall initiating the first...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: When was the Taoiseach last in the North?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: I object to Question No. 7, which asks the Taoiseach if he met the Scottish First Minister recently, being lumped with questions relating to Northern Ireland and relations within Northern Ireland between Britain and Ireland. The idea that questions about Scotland should be grouped with questions pertaining to Northern Ireland is absurd and whoever prepared that grouping should reflect on the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: He said he was not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken or met the Scottish First Minister, Mr. Alex Salmond MSP recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35200/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the lack of progress in the implementation or acceptance of the Haass report; if his concerns are shared by Prime Minister Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35632/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to or met the First Minister or Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland to discuss the Haass report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35634/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken or met Prime Minister Cameron in relation to the North recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35659/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 14. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding his September meeting with the First Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36512/14]