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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Apology (29 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: Since taking office I have issued one formal apology in the Dáil, on behalf of the State, for the hurt experienced by many former residents of Mother and Baby Institutions and County Homes. I apologised for the profound generational wrong visited upon Irish mothers and their children who ended up in a Mother and Baby Home or a County Home and for the shame and stigma which they were...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: The Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Equality oversees implementation of Programme for Government commitments in the areas of social policy, including sport, arts and culture, equality, including children and youth affairs, and public services, including matters relating to justice, policing reform and community safety. The Cabinet Committee last met on 7 March this year and will meet...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Northern Ireland (29 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: The Shared Island Dialogue series is a key part of the Government’s approach to engaging with all communities and political traditions on the island, to build consensus around a shared future, underpinned by the Good Friday Agreement. Through the Dialogue series, the Government is listening to people’s views on a range of common concerns, and how we can work for a shared future,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Contracts (29 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: My Department engaged the services of the company in question from 2013 - 2016 and from 2019 - 2020 for translation services. This provided for the translation of reports, press releases, speeches, website text, and correspondence. It also included the use of interpretation services for a small number of press conferences and meetings with visiting members of European governments. The total...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Contracts (29 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: My Department has no contracts or expenditure with the company in question.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Undocumented Irish in the USA (29 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: The welfare of undocumented Irish emigrants in the United States remains a priority for Government. In my virtual meeting with President Biden on 17 March, we discussed comprehensive immigration reform, including the specific issue of undocumented Irish people in the United States. President Biden has demonstrated his commitment to immigration issues, including possible pathways to...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Consultations (29 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: My Department, in line with the rest of the Civil Service, actively supports diversity and inclusion in the workplace and is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all staff. Recent measures taken to promote diversity and inclusion in my Department include: - Participation in AHEAD’s Willing Able Mentoring (WAM) Programme, a graduate internship opportunity for persons with a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Consultations (22 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: The table below details the external consultant reports, including external Information Technology (IT) consultancy, commissioned by my Department in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022. Name Costs Date of Commission Date of Publication Consultant Review of Personal Evacuation Plan €615 2019 ...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: Expenditure by my Department for the supply of face masks since March 2019 was €2,359.96, with the first purchase in March 2020. These were purchased for the most part under contract with Musgrave Limited, but other suppliers were used on occasion depending on urgency and availability.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: Expenditure by my Department for the supply of hand sanitiser products since March 2019 was €10,220.46, with the first purchase in March 2020. These were procured and purchased for the most part from Ecolab Limited but other suppliers were also used on occasion depending on urgency and availability.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Traveller Community (22 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: The Government is committed to improving the lives of the Traveller and Roma Communities in Ireland. Across all of Government, a wide range of specific and targeted policy approaches, designed in consultation with Traveller and Roma community representatives, are in place to pursue those improved outcomes and bring about far greater inclusion across all of Irish society The...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: World Economic Forum (22 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: In January 2019, the then Taoiseach attended the World Economic Forum’s annual event in Davos, Switzerland. While I have received invitations from the World Economic Forum (WEF) to attend their annual forum in 2021, which was ultimately cancelled, and their planned forum in May this year, I have not personally been in contact with them. Officials in my Department have been in contact...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (22 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: The forthcoming vacancy in the position of Secretary General to the Government and Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach will be filled following a request for expressions of interest from all suitable officers in the Civil Service. The post does not come within the remit of TLAC. The appointment will be made by the Government, on my advice. There is no departure from the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: More generally, the financial services sector in this country grew from the late 1980s and the 1990s. Approximately 50,000 people are working in that sector now.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: That is never said in this debate. The implication in all the assessment is that somehow the Government wants to excuse bad behaviour because of the 50,000 staff. That is not the case. We have no truck with anybody who wants to abuse, in any shape or form, either the IFSC or any tax framework. We have no truck with that whatsoever.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: Regarding section 110, anyone who takes funding out of those funds is taxed in that respect. My point is that when the crisis breaks out in Ukraine, the assertion and the immediate focus of attention is that suddenly the financial services are covering for or hiding people who engage in bad behaviour.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: That is not the case. We have no interest and we do not want it to be a haven for anybody who is enabling the Putin regime.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: I know, but we did-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: Yes, of course. I have no issue with that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Micheál Martin: I am very struck by Deputy Boyd Barrett's comments.  He said that the EU wants to use the war in Ukraine as an excuse to militarise and increase defence spending.