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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Properties (9 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: There are seventy-seven (77) residential type properties under the remit of my Department. Ten (10) properties are in Cork, Five (5) properties are in Dublin and sixty-two (62) properties are in Kildare. I am advised that none of these properties can be occupied without considerable refurbishment and were built before the Building Regulations and associated standards arising from same came...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Vacant Properties (9 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: There are seventy-seven (77) residential type properties under the remit of my Department. Ten (10) properties are in Cork, Five (5) properties are in Dublin and sixty-two (62) properties are in Kildare. I am advised that none of these properties can be occupied without considerable refurbishment and were built before the Building Regulations and associated standards arising from same came...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: I thank Deputy O'Callaghan for raising this serious and worrying situation. I met Traveller representative organisations last year. I met the Traveller disability group in Cork and the national organisation. Suffice it to say it is very worrying. Without question there has been an increase in suicides among the Traveller community and particularly among young people. We have to examine...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (2 Mar 2023)

Micheál Martin: ... Carlow 3,956 8,959 12,915 Cavan 4,579 10,582 15,161 Clare 8,933 17,553 26,486 Cork 41,133 83,027 124,160 Derry 5,980 14,370 20,350 Donegal 10,041 23,230 33,271 ...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Feb 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...him in Youghal recently, where we visited a number of schools and the family resource centre organisation regarding a location for Youghal. A permanent base has been sought and we will work with Cork Education and Training Board, ETB, to see whether a solution can be found. I pay tribute to all the schools for their generosity and warm welcome for Ukrainian children in substantial and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...Galway, the Mater University Hospital and Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown. In addition, Tallaght University Hospital and St. James's Hospital operate combined post-acute and long Covid clinics. Cork University Hospital held its first dedicated long Covid and post-acute clinics for patients in December. The location of specific clinics is, of course, a matter for the HSE as we roll this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Micheál Martin: In my time, we put unprecedented investment into infrastructure in Cork. Regrettably, in the past while, significant proposals did not come forward to the degree that they should have.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...there has been unprecedented investment in our health services since this Government came into office. The emergency waiting times and the large numbers attending are a cause for concern, particularly in the context of University Hospital Limerick, Cork University Hospital, Mercy University Hospital and other hospitals. It also needs to be pointed out that activity levels in our...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...approximately 11% of total applications received by the passport service, and 87% of applicants from Northern Ireland applied through passport online. The Passport Office on Mount Street in Cork has a public counter. It offers an urgent appointment service for those who wish to renew their passport urgently, but the majority of all online renewal applications are now being processed in...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Properties (2 Feb 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...Quarters Unoccupied Married Quarters Occupied and Unoccupied Location Military Overholders Totals Location Total Total Cork 0 0 0 Cork 10 10 Dublin 6 14 20 Dublin 5 25 ...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Passport Services (31 Jan 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...Balbriggan campus, which now has capacity for 500 staff. Up to 90% of applicants from Northern Ireland applied for their passport online last year. There are passport offices in Mount Street and Cork, which have public counters and offer urgent appointment services. We keep all this under constant review, but at the moment, the push is towards the digital first side.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (31 Jan 2023)

Micheál Martin: The number of passport applications currently in the Passport Online system from County Cork are outlined below in tabular form.  The table also breaks down the number of applications that are currently being processed by the Passport Service and the number of applications that require further action from the applicant, such as the submission of additional documentation. These...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (31 Jan 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...two of which are located in the main production facility at the Balbriggan campus and the third in the Passport Office in Dublin 2. Each passport printer has a printing capacity of 250 passports per hour. The Cork office can facilitate a four day turnaround for urgent renewal appointments and the immediate issuance of an emergency passport in situations of genuine urgency such as a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (31 Jan 2023)

Micheál Martin: .... Our Joint Plan of Action, signed in 2021 during President Macron's visit to Dublin, underpins this. This new closeness is exemplified by the significant increase in maritime connections to Cork, Rosslare and Dublin, which have provided a direct and reliable route to the EU Single Market, supporting an 18% increase in trade in goods between Ireland and France in 2021. It has also...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Properties (18 Jan 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...Local Authority in relation to a transfer, my Department has no objection in principle to dispose of its holding on the site for the purposes cited by the Deputy should such an approach be made by Cork County Council. With regard to the possible disposal of the Department's interest to Cork County Council, under General Finance Sanction S.55/3/55 the Department of Defence can dispose...

Éirí as Oifig an Taoisigh - Resignation of Taoiseach (17 Dec 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...We continue to be inspired by the great generation who met 96 years ago, under Constance Markievicz as chairperson, to found our democratic republican party. As I finish this term in office, I would like most of all to thank my wife, Mary, and our children, Micheál Aodh, Aoibhe and Cillian, for their unfailing advice, support and encouragement and for the occasional criticism they...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Dec 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...Ireland and France have never been stronger, underpinned by the Joint Plan of Action we agreed when he visited Dublin in 2021. This includes the significant increase in maritime connections to Cork, Rosslare and Dublin, as well as progress on the Celtic Interconnector, which will link the Irish and French electricity grids when it comes online in 2026. President Macron and I agreed that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...Tóibín made a fair point. I do not think there has been such a quantification. I was at the Presidential Distinguished Service Awards ceremony last week and there was a Fr. O'Riordan from Cork there. He spent most of his life in South Africa and did time in jail there because he lived among the black townships in the apartheid era and was imprisoned for that. So many members...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...France have never been stronger, underpinned by the Joint Plan of Action we agreed when President Macron visited Dublin in 2021. This includes the significant increase in maritime connections to Cork, Rosslare and Dublin, as well as progress on the Celtic Interconnector, which will link the Irish and French electricity grids when it comes online in 2026. President Macron and I agreed that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...a more comprehensive and informed perspective on these issues in three significant speeches I gave on the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921, in Trinity College Dublin, on the Civil War, in University College Cork, and on the formation of the Free State, in University College Dublin last Friday. The murder of Seán Hales was a terrible crime, objectively, not from looking back now on the past....