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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: In response to Deputy Pa Daly, that matter will be examined. I will come back to the Deputy on the implications of that decision. We will examine the point Deputy Joan Collins has made about the foster care allowance. Between the Ministers for Health, Social Protection, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, we can examine a range of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: It can deal with complaints. The scale of what the Deputy has told me is involved in this case might merit examination by the RTB.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 10 together. I have had a number of discussions with each of the leaders of the main parties in Northern Ireland since the election. Most recently, I travelled to Belfast on Friday, 20 May for a day of meetings. In all of these engagements, I reiterated the importance of early formation of the Northern Ireland Executive and a functioning assembly. The...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: I assure the Deputy that the Government is doing everything it possibly can with the National Council for Special Education to find additional places and additional capacity in schools. We are looking at simplifying and clarifying the legislation in order to oblige all schools in the country to be inclusive and to make sure that their doors are open for applications from children with...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: Could the Deputy repeat the last part?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: This murder is a stain on Irish society. That someone who loved west Cork was murdered in such a brutal manner was greeted by shock and horror by the people of the country. It is not like a roller coaster in the sense that I believe the Garda takes the matter very seriously. We know that his case has attracted enormous attention. I do not get involved in prosecutions with the criminal...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: What I said related to offshore wind generation permitting systems. A recent analysis by the European Union estimated that it can take eight years from concept to get an offshore wind farm installed. The European Commission, in its REPowerEU plan, which was presented to the European Council yesterday, and in its communication to the Council, has said it is looking at introducing a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: That is the thinking of the Commission, which I agree with, in order to get things moving much faster. The guidelines to which the Deputy referred relate to onshore wind energy.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: I met with people from Cancer Connect recently at the opening of the Cork ARC cancer support house. They are providing a fantastic service in the rural parts of Cork - west Cork, in particular - in terms of bringing people to services like the Cork ARC facility, with which the service has a strong connection. The Minister has heard the Deputy's eloquent plea. Additional resources have been...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: I agree with the Deputy on the need to make sure the scenes that happened last weekend do not happen again. There is an onus on the DAA, as a semi-State company, to organise its human resources and to develop the capacities required to ensure what took place does not happen in the future. That certainly must be done in advance of next weekend. I know that the Minister for Transport, Deputy...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: I have made it clear that there is an enormous challenge ahead of us in climate change, which the EPA report identifies. We always made it clear as well that it would be the latter half of the decade before some of the decisions we have taken will bear fruit, including investments in a range of areas such as retrofitting, electric vehicles, EVs, and agricultural investments. The carbon tax...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: This is a matter of enormous difficulty and challenges for the people concerned and my empathy is with the workers who have been identified as being laid off, which is very tough on the workers concerned. Every effort has to be made and this is a huge shock to the staff. I am not familiar with the details the Deputy has announced about the selection methodology but if the Deputy wants to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: I invite the Deputy to send me a detailed background note to me on it because sometimes things are said here and when I go back and check it is not always the case. I would welcome it if the Deputy could do that. What is important is that we do everything we possibly can for the workers who will be laid off. The State must immediately work with the workers to find alternative employment if...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: I am glad that the Deputy acknowledged the work of Deputy Ó Cuív when he was Minister and when he brought in that scheme. He brought in a number of imaginative and creative schemes for rural Ireland. I was responsible for bringing in the six-year rule in its first form when I was Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to deal with people of a certain age who were coming off...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: Again, the Deputy is interrupting. I made it very clear that it was absolutely unacceptable for any local authority to try to interfere or editorially control any radio station or any newspaper by dint of the fact that it invests in advertising. That is wrong. SIPO has called that out, and----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----I have made that very clear, but I do not know why the Deputy is trying to twist it and personalise it-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----in the manner she has done today, which is not good either.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: Go bunúsach, aontaím leis an Teachta go bhfuil géarghá ann i bhfad níos mó a dhéanamh chomh tapa agus is féidir linn, agus é a dhéanamh níos tapúla, chun déileáil leis an ngéarchéim aeráide atá againn. Tá an dúshlán atá amach romhainn práinneach agus caithfimid i bhfad níos...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: Every city and town in the country has to be a model of sustainability, especially Galway. I know there has been a fairly divisive row in Galway in respect of the ring road that has gone on for a long, long time. By the way, light rail and a proper road system are not mutually exclusive either. I do not know why park and ride has not happened in Galway. That is fundamentally a matter for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: Other cities have had them for a long, long time.