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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Electoral Process (27 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Why does the Government not want to do it before the general election? There seems to be a studied approach to avoid having the legislation in place for the general election.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Electoral Process (27 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach just said he has no intention of having it.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Electoral Process (27 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: That is what the response states in reality. Maybe Fine Gael has its own plans for spending on the platform in question. I do not know.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Electoral Process (27 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: No. There is no reason the Government could not deal with transparency before the next general election.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Electoral Process (27 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the role his officials had in the interdepartmental group that finalised proposals on regulating transparency in online political advertising. [47451/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: I was trying to be helpful earlier.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: I refer the Taoiseach to a wonderful pub in Enniscorthy which has an iconic photograph of Eoin O'Duffy leading the Blueshirts in military parade.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: It is a wonderful reminder of Fine Gael's illustrious past.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: I apologise. Yesterday I asked the Taoiseach whether he had spoken to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport regarding a report published in the most recent edition of The Sunday Business Post which detailed interference with the work of road safety officers employed by the Road Safety Authority, RSA, by the president of the Irish Road Haulage Society, Ms Verona Murphy, who happens to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has been making inquiries since last Sunday.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Today is Wednesday. This is a serious issue which goes to the heart of the enforcement of road safety law in this country and checking-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: As Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, should be concerned about this issue.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Europol's 2019 Drug Markets Report makes for very serious and concerning reading. It illustrates the degree, as I am sure the Taoiseach will accept, to which violence, death, intimidation, stealing and spreading fear across every community in Ireland is now a feature and a consequence of a rampant drug trade that is extremely valuable. The scale of what is revealed in the report is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: The first issue is the scale of the problem as revealed by Europol. That is the bit I do not think the Government has got yet, to be honest, in particular given the fact nine Ministers of State signed a document on the reduction of resourcing of community partnerships and the whole loss of multidisciplinary impacts on the ground in certain disadvantaged communities. It is very clear from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Garda Reform (26 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: In the past few years, every time a Deputy raised an issue about serious crime and anti-social behaviour, the response has tended to be that everything is being attended to but there is no doubt that people have a growing sense of unease about crime. The habitual use of drugs in society, in campuses, on streets and so on, is causing major concern. The work of the National Crime Council and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (26 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: The facts show that today, the entire peace settlement is in crisis. Brexit has been incredibly destabilising but nobody can seriously deny that the crisis in the peace process began well before the Brexit referendum so we need some real talking and a bit of reality here. The core issue is a sense of people retreating from trying to find a shared approach, which was the essence of the Good...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (26 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: I did not at any stage call for it to be collapsed. Does the Taoiseach agree that what we need today is an end to the politics of collapsing democratic institutions and a return of the democratic Assembly and Executive in Northern Ireland? I met people in Newry recently who cannot understand why it has been collapsed. Only when this is done can we return to engagement, without which the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Enhancement Programme (26 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: I did not say that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Enhancement Programme (26 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is making a loaded comment and that is not-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Enhancement Programme (26 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Last week or the week before, I asked the Taoiseach for figures on expenditure on the north east inner city to determine how much of the spending is new money rather than existing schemes and projects being provided by central government. How much new money has been provided to existing programmes by central government? The funding announced includes money that was to be spent anyway, as...