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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (5 Apr 2022)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 21 to 29, inclusive, together. We have condemned the war since the start as immoral and unjustifiable, and rightly so, but the evidence emerging at the weekend of horrific crimes against civilians in regions north of Kyiv is especially and profoundly shocking. Such unspeakable deeds cannot go unanswered and those responsible must be held to account. I...

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

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputies for the issues raised. With respect to Deputy Boyd Barrett, we need a better model of inquiry. More important, existing agencies should be the principal mechanism for holding Government agencies and bodies and, generally, society to account and contemporaneously. One of the difficulties in looking back is that we use the prism of today to judge actions 30 or 40 years...

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

Micheál Martin: Of course, but-----

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

Micheál Martin: Approximately 18,000 Ukrainians have come into this country in the space of six weeks. In parallel with that, in terms of normal migration outside of Ukraine, more migrants and asylum seekers have arrived here in the first two to three months of this year than arrived here in the entirety of last year. Within Europe, we have internal migration into Ireland, which we have to deal with and...

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

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is saying that because he is already building up the case for an inquiry against people who are working flat out within our system to do everything they possibly can to accommodate people with respect and with dignity. We are doing that. In terms of ending direct provision, the Government has a policy in that respect. There are hundreds of families in direct provision who...

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

Micheál Martin: If I could just-----

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

Micheál Martin: I just want to very quickly-----

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

Micheál Martin: In response to Deputy Mythen, €220 million in core funding went into childcare this year. It should be within the capacity of the sector, given that level of funding, to deal with the issue he raised, although I do not know the details of the individual case. On Deputy Costello's point, I will talk to the Minister for Education. The move the Minister has made in having an alternative...

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

Micheál Martin: Sorry. On the pig industry, Deputy Smyth will know from her interactions with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue, that he is working intensively with the pig farmers. It is an industry that ordinarily is viable but because of a unique set of circumstances, a perfect storm has emerged for the industry. We want to protect the jobs and the industry and the...

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...