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Order of Business (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is a gerrymander for the Labour Party. They will have eight seaters to protect their local electoral seats.

Order of Business (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: Last year, there was a significant raid on the pensions of workers in the private sector through the 0.6% pension levy to fund job creation, which has clearly failed in its application. Many pensioners are receiving letters from their trustees, saying pensions are being reduced because of the levy. In the context of the NewERA proposal, and particularly the National Pensions Reserve Fund...

Order of Business (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: What about the recapitalisation of the bankers' pension fund?

Order of Business (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: I refer to the big ones.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----of course is a classic attempt by the Minister to try to deflect attention from his responsibility to come to terms with this issue in an urgent way. Additional staff, over and above the number allocated, need to be appointed to ensure a far faster operation so that students are dealt with far more quickly than currently and that the doubt, anxiety, stress and the potential risk of...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----was told not to re-apply by registered post because there was no one at the office to sign for it. That is the level of what we are dealing with it.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: This one is.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am very serious.

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: I wish to remind the Tánaiste of the statement: "I, Ruairí Quinn, Education Spokesperson for the Labour Party hereby pledge that if elected, we will oppose and campaign against any new form of third level fees including student loans, graduate taxes and any further increase in the Student Contribution." Since then, we have had a shameless reneging on this promise to the students of...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: In addition, last June the Minister announced the implementation and operation of a central online system for the administration of student grants. That implementation has been disastrous under his watch. The system is failing abysmally, as third level students throughout Ireland are yet to receive decisions, let alone the grants themselves, on their applications. The Minister has...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste and the Minister, Deputy Quinn, shamelessly used the students of Ireland to help them get into power. Once they were in power, they discarded the students and broke every solemn pledge given to them. There is no point in the Minister nodding his head. He signed the pledge in ink. It was a scandalous, cynical election pledge that meant nothing. It meant nothing to him to...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----is also unacceptable. It demands a far more urgent and critical response from Government and the Minister. The thousands of students concerned are not interested in the chief executive officer coming into an Oireachtas committee next week to answer questions from Deputies which-----

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Acquired Infections (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that our health services are putting in place sufficient measures to deal with hospital acquired patient infections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48952/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health his views on the concern that cutbacks in cardiology in the Midwest Regional Hospital, Limerick, are putting undue pressure on services at University Hospital Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48951/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the necessary funding for a project (details supplied) in Dublin 16 will be made available now that planning permission has been granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49205/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Museum Projects (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the spending on improvements that have been undertaken at a museum (details supplied) in Dublin 14; the outstanding works that remain to be completed; the moneys that have been allocated for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49206/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding provided by the Office of Public Works towards flood relief in south county Dublin; if he will detail the projects for which moneys have been provided; if he will also detail those projects for which funding requests were rejected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49207/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the refuse collection services provided by private operators in the Dublin area meet with EU standards, particularly in relation to the collection and disposal of organic and garden waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49208/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Domestic Violence Refuges (8 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that a housing association (details supplied) is unable to provide crisis refuge accommodation for many of the victims of domestic violence seeking support, his plans to increase the provision of family refuge accommodation here; his plans to increase provision of family refuge accommodation here; and if...

Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should keep Joan onside; the Tánaiste has not done so.