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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Disused Railway Land (15 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: 49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions his Department has taken to reaffirm the ownership rights of Iarnród Éireann of disused railway land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22986/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (15 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: 100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on recent reports of children as young as seven marching in Easter parades in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17252/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (15 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: 101. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the apparent increase in dissident activity in Northern Ireland and in particular the recent threats to the Deputy First Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17253/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Good Friday Agreement (15 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: 102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is satisfied that both Governments are delivering on all of the commitments in the Good Friday Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17255/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: St. Andrew's Agreement (15 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: 103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is satisfied that both Governments are delivering on all the commitments in the St Andrew's Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17256/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (15 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: 104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress being made on the Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17257/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Affairs (15 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: 105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he accepts the latest European Movement Ireland accountability survey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22452/13]

Order of Business (14 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, this flies in the face of what the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, said last week when he suggested the sale of the harvesting rights would not go ahead. Deputy Emmet Stagg intervened on the Order of Business last week to inform the Taoiseach that the thing was not now going ahead.

Order of Business (14 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: As the House is aware, there was a leak in a newspaper last Sunday week from Deputy Brendan Howlin's Department to the effect that the sale of Coillte trees was unlikely to go ahead.

Order of Business (14 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has come in today and stated that it is now going ahead and that the sale of the harvesting rights is back on track.

Order of Business (14 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: Someone is misleading the Dáil or someone is misleading the House and the general public in respect of this issue.

Order of Business (14 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, was clear on the public airwaves. He is a Minister of the Government. He said this was not going ahead. Deputy Stagg showed us all last week, including the Taoiseach, that it was not going ahead.

Order of Business (14 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: Have they been discussing it with the Labour Party?

Order of Business (14 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: Last week we were told by Deputy Howlin that it would not be sold.

Order of Business (14 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: We need legislative change.

Order of Business (14 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: My point is that in the programme for Government two and a half years ago, this big Bill was put up front, that is, the universal primary care Bill. Had the person responsible for putting that into the programme for Government had a bull's notion about what it involved in terms of detail, substance and complexity, he or she would not have put it in. We have been told in the past two weeks,...

Order of Business (14 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: Clearly whoever put this into the programme for Government was not aware of any difficulties at the time. Are we looking at a reform of the programme for Government commitment to such an Act? Clearly, that Act cannot happen this year. The Minister of State, Deputy White, has inherited this mess from the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly. The former Minister of State at the Department of...

Order of Business (14 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: On the universal primary care Bill, does anyone know what the substance of it would be? Is that Bill gone by the wayside? Will a new Bill be introduced? What is the situation in this regard?

Order of Business (14 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: Did the Government not know that two years ago?

Order of Business (14 May 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Government had promised in the programme for Government reform of the registered employment agreements, REAs. As the Taoiseach is aware, the Supreme Court has made a significant judgment on registered employment agreements. Has the programme for Government been amended in terms of the commitments on REAs, in particular on the amendments to the Industrial Relations Acts or other Acts?...