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Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality will be before the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality this afternoon answering questions. However, when accepting the invitation, the Secretary General wrote to the committee on 13 May to say that while he would answer most of the questions, he is not in a position to answer any questions about the mysterious set...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: The matter that came to the attention of the Taoiseach and caused him such great anxiety was brought to the attention of the Department and the Minister some weeks earlier by the Commissioner. That does not stack up. It is bizarre. Is the Taoiseach saying that all Mr. Purcell was told was to go to the Commissioner and tell him that the Taoiseach was filled with anxiety, and not to say any more?

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: We are now being led to believe that he said nothing else. He did not tell him he would not survive the Cabinet meeting or that he was going to be sacked; he just told him that the Taoiseach was filled with anxiety.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: This concerned something the Taoiseach had learned on that day, of which the Commissioner himself had informed his Minister two to three weeks earlier. We are not getting the full story. There is an extraordinary silence on the substantive question, namely, the removal of a Garda Commissioner. It was not for the Taoiseach to take that initiative under the legislation. If the Taoiseach was...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach give a full statement? The Taoiseach knows the story. He knows what happened and I ask him to tell us what happened fully and without any equivocation.

Return to Writ: Longford-Westmeath - Introduction of New Member (28 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: Ar mo shon féin agus ar son mo pháirtí, cuirim fáilte roimh Gabrielle McFadden go dtí Dáil Éireann. Is léir gur éirigh go maith léi sa fo-thoghchán agus go raibh muintir na dúiche sin sásta í a chur go dtí Dáil Éireann. Is rud iontach é sin di féin agus dá clann. I welcome Deputy McFadden...

Order of Business (27 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: Can the Minister indicate whether we will need a Supplementary Estimate for health this year given that the Minister for Health has made it clear he does not believe he can make the savings outlined in the Haddington Road agreement under the health Vote? Acute hospitals are indicating that they will be significantly in deficit and spending more than they were provided with. There are...

Order of Business (27 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is in the programme for Government.

Leaders' Questions (27 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister said the policy will not be changed overnight. It was changed overnight. Legislation was not introduced to take the discretionary medical cards from approximately 30,000 people over recent years. It got so bad the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, said that there was no such thing as a discretionary medical card. He has said that on the record and now the Minister has...

Leaders' Questions (27 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: Pressure came on the medical card system and the ones that were focused on were the discretionary medical cards. This issue was raised long before the elections. It was raised over two years ago. The Jack & Jill foundation is saying that in the past two years the policy became particularly vicious, and it deals with children with significant life-limiting and life-threatening...

Leaders' Questions (27 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----or will we definitely get change? Will there be a more definitive, clear policy in terms of both holding discretionary medical cards for those who desperately need them and restoring them to those very sick people who need them urgently?

Leaders' Questions (27 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: I did actually.

Return to Writ: Dublin West - Introduction of New Member (27 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: On behalf of my party and on my own behalf, I congratulate Deputy Ruth Coppinger on her success in the by-election and welcome her to the Chamber, which is the key national decision-making chamber in our public life. She has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to public matters and public affairs. Irrespective of our different perspectives on politics, participation in politics is...

Leaders' Questions (27 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: It is fair to say that one of the issues that had caused the greatest offence to the people we met on the doorsteps in recent weeks, irrespective of whether they were affected by it, was the policy position of the withdrawal of discretionary medical cards from very sick people, children with multiple disabilities and people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. To be honest,...

Business of Dáil (27 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: Does that apply to Leaders' Questions as well?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bank Stress Tests (27 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: 38. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has seen the letter sent from Mr. Mario Draghi in relation to EU-wide stress tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15987/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (27 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: 47. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Cabinet sub-committee meetings he has attended in the month of April. [22601/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Boston College Archives (27 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: 49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the release of the Boston College papers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22178/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Boston College Archives (27 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: 59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views regarding threats and use of provocative labels such as touts being made against persons who co-operated with the Boston College tapes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22705/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (27 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: 57. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent comments by the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland regarding possible party political activities within the PSNI; if he and his Department are concerned about same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22603/14]