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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: An organisational capability review of the Department of Defence has been conducted over the last year by the organisational capability review team based in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It is part of a Civil Service-wide process being overseen by the Civil Service management board. It is, as the Deputy knows, completely separate from the Commission on the Defence Forces....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: The process will be fully transparent. There is an issue with the length of time, and we need to reduce that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Whitmore and Deputy Paul Murphy raised the carbon budget issue. That went through committee and there was debate at committee level.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: In all of the debates on climate change, I am struck by the fact that everybody wants to delay the day of reckoning on all fronts.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: We had that earlier in the cost of living debate, when people said we should postpone the carbon tax.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: The same will happen with the carbon budgets.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: People will say it is not enough, but when specific measures will be put on the table in respect of realising these objectives, everybody will oppose them.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: This is going to be the story of climate change in next number of years.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: There you go again. All you seem to want to do is to say the Green Party is the greatest evil since time began.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: It is not, Deputy McGrath. Younger generations in the country need the Oireachtas to deal with climate change once and for all. We cannot keep on postponing and delaying climate change.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: Every time there is a big conference like COP26 or whatever, everybody is all ado for about a week or two.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: However, when we try to do something concrete about it and resolve carbon budget issues, there are objections.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: We had a debate on it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: On the reports from the Police Ombudsman in Northern Ireland, the most recent report is indeed very significant and deeply concerning and is the second such report in a matter of weeks. It examined eight loyalist paramilitary attacks in south Belfast between 1990 and 1998, which resulted in 11 murders and one attempted murder. The report has found strong evidence of investigative and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: It was only sent-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: The money has been allocated. It is not a money issue.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: Could I also say-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: Children's Health Ireland got the money. The Deputy can contact it or seek to meet with it through the Oireachtas Committee on Health, or by whatever means. The Deputy can meet it. It will go through all of that with the Deputy. There is no issue.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: I agree that one can oppose Israeli Government policy and should not be labelled as antisemitic for doing it. It is important, given our strength despite being a small country, that our voice on this matter has been seen as objective and honourable, although not by everybody. Generally speaking, our interest is genuine and we have been one of the strong supporters of the United Nations...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Micheál Martin: I am on the pragmatic side. I know what works. When I say "works", we must help people and children to get an education. We should seek, at a European level and with our American partners, to expand UNRWA and its support for the vast majority of people.