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Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: No, I am not. That is a myth.

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: A total of 30,000 cards were taken back.

Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is 18 months since I began to raise the issue of the removal of discretionary medical cards from very sick children and people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions with the Taoiseach. In fairness, he has moved from a position of total denial of any policy change, which resulted in a dramatically high number of cards being removed from so many deserving people, to blaming a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: 112. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting in San Francisco at which the undoumented Irish were discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25221/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: 113. To ask the Taoiseach if he had any bilaterals when he was in California; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25222/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: 114. To ask the Taoiseach the companies he visited when in California; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25223/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: 115. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed Ireland's double taxation agreement at any of his meetings with industry representatives in California; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25224/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: 116. To ask the Taoiseach if he met any political representatives when he was in California regarding the undocumented Irish; if any progress was made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25226/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (17 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: 118. To ask the Taoiseach when he and his Department received the Cooke report; the actions he will be taking as result of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25229/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (17 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: 137. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the corporation tax rate here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25225/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (17 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the European Commission's intention to investigate the corporation tax rate here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25485/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (17 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: 140. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress he and his officials are making with the EU regarding dealing with Ireland's debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25779/14]

Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: I have read the Department of Finance's response to the decision of the European Commission to open a formal inquiry into a number of individual EU member states, particularly in respect of the application of rulings or opinions relating to a particular multinational company that has been in Ireland for well over 30 years and that at times employs up to 3,000 people. We need a comprehensive...

Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: Is the Government prepared to give decent Government time for a comprehensive debate on this issue involving foreign direct investment and multinationals but also SMEs? Let us have a genuine and open debate about where the country should go on this. We need to be far more assertive and robust in the EU than perhaps we have been to date.

Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: I am not saying that.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: Why is the Government side so upset?

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: Last Friday, I read in The Irish Timesabout an extraordinary letter from the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, to party colleagues in relation to a number of matters. Principally, the letter stated that the Minister of State would not stand over a Taoiseach firing a Garda Commissioner without so much as a phone call to the leader of the Labour Party. That is a very serious assertion by...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: Why did the Taoiseach not tell the Tánaiste at the time that he was sending the Secretary General to the home of the former Garda Commissioner following a meeting he had had with officials and with the former Minister, Deputy Shatter? Has the Taoiseach spoken to the Minister of State, Deputy White, who is a member of Government and has made this assertion publicly?

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, one of the Taoiseach's Ministers has made the charge, and the Taoiseach has done nothing about that. He has not even talked to him about it. The Taoiseach has some neck to come in here and lecture me about that when one of his Ministers made the same assertion.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)

Micheál Martin: The point is that the former Garda Commissioner, whether or not people liked or disagreed with his policies, was the first person to highlight the issue of the recordings at Garda stations. This was not about a specific phone recording. The Taoiseach needs to stop changing his story as time goes on. This was about the wider issue of phone recordings at Garda stations, about which the...