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Written Answers — Official Engagements: Official Engagements (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 64: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the visits that are planned for St. Patrick's Day; the number of Ministers travelling; the destinations of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1922/12]

Written Answers — Diplomatic Representation: Diplomatic Representation (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 68: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been in communication with the Vatican recently in relation to Ireland withdrawing its embassy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1942/12]

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 105: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the work of the North-South Ministerial Council. [2452/12]

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Issues: Northern Ireland Issues (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 106: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will detail the steps to be taken in the coming months to address the priorities of the North-South Ministerial Council. [2453/12]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the corporate taxation rate here will be preserved if EU treaty changes go ahead. [38475/11]

Written Answers — EU Summits: EU Summits (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 98: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views that the recent EU and USA summit was successful in building a stronger and fairer rules-based system in the global economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39473/11]

Written Answers — EU Summits: EU Summits (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 102: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on his plans regarding participation in bilateral trade delegations in the coming months. [2449/12]

Written Answers — EU Summits: EU Summits (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 104: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will detail arrangements he has made to participate in trade promotion visits in the next six months. [2451/12]

Written Answers — Middle East Peace Process: Middle East Peace Process (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Question 108: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made any contact with the Prime Minister or President of Israel. [2455/12]

School Guidance Counsellors (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: For most of last year, a steady stream of announcements and leaks came from Marlborough Street. An enormous amount of time was spent telling journalists how progressive reform was under way in a new era for Irish education. The problem through all of this is that it all added up to nothing more than a statement of intention rather than concrete action. Budget 2012 was the moment when the...

School Guidance Counsellors (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Yes.

School Guidance Counsellors (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: I was in schools yesterday and this morning. They told me how well literacy and numeracy programmes have worked under existing schemes that the Minister is now savagely cutting. That is the point. The Minister is robbing Peter to pay Paul.

School Guidance Counsellors (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Minister should make a more honest and decent analysis of that. One does not cut between five and eight teaches in a DEIS school and terminate the entire guidance counselling service and use part of the money for another initiative that will get PR headlines. If the Minister is to do what he ought to, he should concentrate on protecting the areas that are working and that have been seen...

Departmental Bodies (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Can I ask a supplementary?

Departmental Bodies (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Did I ask one already?

Departmental Bodies (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: I think I had only one.

Departmental Bodies (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: I only want to ask the Taoiseach if he can explain to the House why this committee has not met. The Government is nearly 12 months in office. I am genuinely shocked and taken aback at the fact that the committee has not met. We have been reminded time and again in this House of the gravity of the eurozone crisis and the enormous challenge facing Europe. Great Britain is staying out of a...

Departmental Bodies (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----what we have got from the Taoiseach on Europe - the so-called diplomatic initiative - has been nothing more than empty rhetoric, month after month. In reality, nothing is happening in terms of engagement with Europe from the Government. This is a straightforward issue - the establishment of an interdepartmental committee. The Taoiseach has now admitted, because of a question here...

Departmental Bodies (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: Maybe there is not, given the Taoiseach's record to date.

Departmental Bodies (17 Jan 2012)

Micheál Martin: It has not met.