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Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive, together. The only commissions of investigation for which I am the specified Minister under the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 are the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Commission of Investigation and the National Asset Management Agency Commission of Investigation, both of which are fully independent. The IBRC Commission of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: Let us be clear that in the last 18 months there has been unprecedented action on climate change. Legislation that has been passed on carbon budgeting and the maritime Act will give us the opportunity to develop wind energy. The idea that the Government is engaged in doublespeak - the Deputy itemised one issue and through that made the generalised accusation against us - does not hold water...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----because most local authorities-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: Just hear me out please. You have this facility - you ask the question, you do not like the answer and you interrupt. You are not alone in that. Others are doing the same.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I have been around the country. Local authorities-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----are advancing right across the country on active travel, a whole range of environmental schemes and on biodiversity. The Deputy has overstated the position.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Connolly has overstated the position.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for articulating so vividly the horrors of what is occurring in certain locations across the city. In the area he represents there was, at the weekend, the shocking murder of a young man. Certainly at Government level we will do everything we can. The Garda and Minister for Justice are doing everything they can through the criminal justice system to stamp out this...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I will certainly raise that and follow that through for the Deputy. He has raised a very fair point.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Buckley, along with Deputies O'Connor, Stanton and others, has been raising this issue for quite some time about the need in the east of County Cork. Very substantial investment has, as Deputy Buckley knows, been sanctioned for the Carrigtohill site. I understand there are further challenges with school placements. I will follow that through with the Department of Education and see...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. First, the total number of funded consultant positions in Mayo University Hospital is about 64, with 60.5 currently in post when locums are included. The area of difficulty in filling posts in Mayo University Hospital is predominantly within the medical speciality, so there are a range of issue there. Interviews will be held in April for two...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. The Department of Finance is advised by Revenue the VAT rating of goods and services is subject to EU VAT law. In general, the VAT directive provides all goods and services are liable for VAT at the standard rate, currently 23% in Ireland, unless they fall within categories of goods and services specified in the directive. The directive also allows...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: We will have to look at other ways. We will work with the Deputy and engage further on this to see what we can do.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I disagree. I quoted that this morning because, without question, there is a lot of doublespeak in this House and there is a lot of doublespeak among the Opposition. When it comes to any measure relating to climate change that has any sense of unpopularity about it, the Opposition will resist it or find some excuse to go against it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: The ESRI's research on carbon tax contradicts the Deputy's assertion. It states that the lower four deciles are not negatively impacted by it because it is offset by-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: Because the carbon tax is redistributed, the lower three are basically not negatively affected. The Deputy knows that. However, that does not matter to her because she is only interested in the electoral gain on this.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: We do not have LNG in this country.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I am not familiar with the arrangements between the Department of Health and Trinity College. I was not involved, one way or another, in the decision taken by the Department of Health to create this post on public health and pandemic preparedness and second the CMO to it. That is my understanding of the matter from the perspective of the Department of Health. The Deputy's personalisation...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I condemn utterly the indiscriminate murder of civilians in Ukraine by Russian forces. The images we have seen from Bucha, Irpin and other small villages cut very deep and leave an indelible mark on the human conscience. These acts of depravity have to be responded to. Ireland and European Union member states have acted very decisively to this war in the form of the most severe and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin has two Private Members' Business slots this week and, for some reason, it did not decide to raise the issues relating to fishermen or farmers.