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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: You are promoting a destructive model of opposition.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is one which tries to import into this Chamber the loud hailer politics of the street, which many of you prefer to doing the business of the people and respecting all mandates. We have very serious issues facing this country. Next week, tariffs will be announced on Europe.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: We have a housing crisis-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----yet this is the number one issue for Sinn Féin. It is what you have always done. You brought down the Northern Ireland Assembly when it suited you and the party's self-interest on a number of occasions.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (26 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: Neither I, nor any official in the Department of the Taoiseach, was made aware of the visit of the given person to the White House on St. Patrick’s Day before that visit took place.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Data Protection (26 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Department of the Taoiseach is committed to protecting the rights and privacy of individuals in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Acts. The Department’s designated Data Protection Officer (DPO) liaises regularly with officials in the Data Protection Commission during the course of their work and also as a member of the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (26 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 3 and 4 together. I was accompanied to my meeting with President Trump in the White House on 12 March by my Chief of Staff, the Secretary General of my Department, an Assistant Secretary General, a Principal Officer, the Government Press Secretary as well as by Ireland’s Ambassador to the US and the Deputy Head of Mission of the Irish Embassy. I was...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Weather Events (26 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: No additional funding is being provided to the Department of the Taoiseach this year in respect of expenditure arising following storm Éowyn.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 11, inclusive, together. The National Emergency Coordination Group is the central Government platform established as part of the response to a threatened or ongoing national-level emergency under the strategic emergency management framework.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----with eight minutes on a Tuesday or on a Wednesday. All this row, about the dark days of Irish democracy, is about eight minutes extra on a Tuesday and eight minutes extra on a Wednesday-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: This apparently means we are on the brink of a terrible sort of negativity and so on.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: Over the past ten years, there has been a consistent, incremental increase in time allocated to smaller groups within the Dáil and to Independents within the Dáil. There is a group on the far left that has about three or four Members with more speaking rights than other with 40 TDs or more.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: That has been the reality over the past ten years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: There needs to be a degree of rebalancing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: Backbench Deputies need the opportunity to ask questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: There is no big deal in that. It does not in any way-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: The big demand from members of the Opposition at the beginning, when we met with them, was not to lose any time. They have not lost any time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Opposition groups have actually gained time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is interesting. I made a fundamental point. When a general election happens, and the Deputy knows this because they have engaged with us at different times after different elections, Governments have to be formed.