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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: -----but the numbers are down. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae knows everything about climate change and public health and has an abiding antipathy towards experts or people who offer advice. It is unfair. The Deputy is just playing the game all the time.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: He is playing a popularity contest all the time. On Deputy Andrews' question, Sport Ireland is the body that advises on this------

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: Through the Chair----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: In the parliamentary Chamber, I am entitled to make comments. I make them in the best of good faith. The Deputy has opposed everything as far as I can see.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy has opposed every single thing.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: Stop shouting, please.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I do not mean that in any disparaging way; it is just where we are. The Business Committee could usefully look at that. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae has made a reasonable argument in asking if we can get more reasonable timelines into this. I take his point in that regard.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: We are sticking with the existing order as agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: Again, there is a lengthy session, but at the end of the session we will have an hour and a half to debate a Private Members' Bill, the Education (Admission to Schools) Bill. Generally, with Bills like that, people can raise issues that broadly apply to education.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Finance Bill will be taken on Thursday. We have Leaders' Questions, Questions to the Minister for Rural and Community Development, Questions on Promised Legislation, the Finance Bill and the Topical Issue debate, which Deputies feel is very important. Then we will have the Education (Admission to Schools) Bill. It is due to finish at about 7.30 p.m., which will probably be 8 o'clock on...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: It will be very difficult to respond in one minute. The CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill was passed by this House in July 2019. It was welcomed by all parties in the House. The specifics of the Bill were to help all the women who have been impacted by CervicalCheck to have their claims heard and determined in the most timely and sensitive way possible. It is a far better alternative than the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I am aware of the situation. Historically, as the Deputy knows, people with terminal illnesses received medical cards.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: There was a change to that in more recent years.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: Then there was what I thought was a reversion back to the practice as we understood it in the past. I will certainly deal with this and will be talking to the Minister for Health on the issue.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I had a number of consultations with different groups last week on the overall issues. The Government has issued a very comprehensive statement on its approach to the mother and baby homes issue more generally. The Minister has received the report from the commission of inquiry. There is the idea of creating more than just an archival repository centre, but a centre that would tell the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: I point out to Deputy Boyd Barrett that the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, and her Department have been in constant engagement with the partners in education, including the trade unions, regarding the continued opening of schools to ensure that children do not fall as long-term victims of this virus and that we protect them in every way possible. The best way to do that is to have an...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: That is the longest ever round.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: We are endeavouring to be helpful. The Chief Whip's proposal is a genuine attempt, which I thought, to be fair, Sinn Féin was accepting until Deputy McGrath spoke. His contribution seems to have been a catalyst for Sinn Féin to harden its position. Two hours is a lengthy enough process. I think that is fair. The Chief Whip made the proposal in good faith and I hope the response...

Tuairisc Oifigiúil Dháil Éireann - Official Report of Dáil Éireann (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: Ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a dhéanamh le gach éinne a ghlac páirt in eagrú an 1,000ú imleabhar agus leis na scríbhneoirí go léir a chuir tuairiscí na Dála le chéile ar feadh na nglúnta. Is cuimhin liom, fadó, nuair a bhí mé i mo mhac léinn, rinne mé roinnt taighde agus bhain mé an-tairbhe agus...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: The restrictions on the marts mirror exactly what happened between April and 8 June during the first phase of Covid-19 restrictions. While it posed challenges, people managed to get through that. We are saying that for the six weeks of level 5 restrictions, it is important that we work to try to get through them, notwithstanding the challenges that they present. I do not understate those...