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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: AWAITING REPLY FROM DEPARTMENT.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Communications (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: Further to my reply to PQ 48 of 21 July I have published my diary on the Department's website. It can be found here .

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: Resilience & Recovery 2020-2021 - Plan for Living with COVID-19,sets out Ireland's medium-term approach to managing and living with COVID-19. The Framework for Restrictive Measures set out in the Plan is a risk management strategy for the next 6-9 months. It is designed to allow individuals, families, businesses and services better understand, anticipate and prepare for the measures...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Expenditure (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: My Department has not incurred any expenditure in relation to media training for Ministers or Ministers of State from the period 27 June 2020 to date.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: On 28 October I met with leaders of the Catholic Church - Archbishop Eamon Martin, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop Michael Neary, Archbishop Kieran O’Reilly and Bishop Dermot Farrell. Discussion focused mainly on the effect which the current Covid-19 restrictions are having on the health and well-being of the faith community and the great desire to return to worship as soon as...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Contracts (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: My Department liaises closely with the Office of Government Procurement (OGP) on all matters related to public procurement and monitors all areas of expenditure on an ongoing basis to ensure that value for money is being achieved. Under Department of Finance Circular 40/02, my Department makes annual returns to the Comptroller and Auditor General in respect of contracts above a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Data Protection (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: There were no data protection breaches identified within the Department in 2019.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population (3 Nov 2020)

Micheál Martin: AWAITING REPLY FROM DEPARTMENT.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (21 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: No, the Deputy extolled the virtues of a national health service in Germany. It did not actually apply to testing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (21 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: I learned a lot. The Dutch support our plan. Other Parliaments-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputies for raising the issues. It was my initiative to secure €500 million additional and ring-fenced funding for the shared island agenda. Deputy Howlin, as a former Minister, will be aware that successive Governments since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, and I am not casting aspersions on any specific Government, have only done some projects on canals and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Taoiseach will have oversight. We will work with individual Departments and agencies on delivery. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform will have a key oversight role. Reference was made to the House of Lords and that is an interesting presentation. Building relationships is key to this and I would like Deputies and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: We secured €120 million from the European package, which is very good news because, of course, that has to be more than matched by the British Government at a ratio of either 2:1 or 3:1; let us work from the higher number. We also have to match it, so that gets us substantial funding that will be organised separately from this, involving separate accountancy, approach and all of that....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: Our geography is substantially different and whether we like it or not, there are two separate jurisdictions operating on the island, governed by an Executive and Assembly in the North, the Government and Oireachtas here. Those are realities. We have a long Border. It is not possible to seal the Border to pursue a zero-Covid strategy. Deputy Boyd Barrett asked about concrete stuff which...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (21 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: I attended a meeting of the European Council in Brussels on 15 and 16 October. The agenda included Brexit, Covid-19, climate action, EU relations with Africa, and a number of external relations issues. On Brexit, the European Union chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, shared his assessment of the state of play in the negotiations. While recalling our determination to have as close as possible...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy's central thesis about the health service does not apply in that context. As for treatments and outcomes, I ask the Deputy to defer to clinicians. The outcomes in Ireland during the first phase, in terms of hospital treatments, were quite good, which speaks well of the clinical qualities in our hospitals, such as the quality of clinicians and all our staff, including those in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: We have been told they are not zero-hour contracts and I will further interrogate that to ensure that they are proper and to the level they should be. We want a deal and that is still the outcome that Europe wants, that Ireland certainly wants and that the United Kingdom says it wants. Notwithstanding all the talk last week, therefore, the joint committee has remained engaged on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: I am not going to go into specifics now because it could influence or have an impact on the negotiations. It might be perceived in a certain way. There are realities that Europe will have to consider, such as what will happen if we are in a no-deal scenario and what contingency plans Europe will apply and in what form.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: We are in a negotiating process. Let us, first, work on ensuring we can bring the United Kingdom to the promised landing zone. Having been apprised by Michel Barnier, I believe the UK can get to a proper landing zone, even on the key issues of a level playing field, governance and fishing. I believe that a great deal of progress was made in earlier chapters of the negotiating process,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: We have put on record that contingency has to happen.