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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Family Support Services (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: I accept that the Minister's Department specifically will not have the capital funding required to purchase the 40-acre site. The State has invested hugely in the area with capital investment over the years and ongoing current funding. If the land is sold to a private entity, to a developer, these services will break up. Huge work has gone into building up the family therapeutic service....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Family Support Services (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: I welcome the children and teachers of Our Lady of Lourdes national school in Ballinlough who are in the Visitors Gallery. It is pure coincidence that I happen to be in Chamber at this time. It is appropriate that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs is also here to welcome them. This important issue involves the Bessborough Centre, previously the Bessborough Mother and Baby...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: The one Fianna Fáil Deputy who was there was not invited. The event took place at his former school and he found his way there. The Government organised a Fine Gael event. This is a serious occurrence which represents a blurring of office-holding and Government activity with party political campaigning.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: That should not happen. Will the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment give an assurance that no public resources will be used to assist non-officeholders in the promotion of this initiative?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Will he confirm that no Fine Gael candidate will be provided with information in terms of campaigning? Will he take steps to suspend advertising and marketing in advance of the general election?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Will the Minister confirm that the private companies who got this contract did not provide information to the Fine Gael Party prior to the contract being signed?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Government does not like public housing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Who will own the hospital?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Who will own the hospital?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: It is a pity the Taoiseach is not here. My understanding is that he is attending a party-political event in Europe.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: He is meeting other leaders. What I am about to raise is important in terms of how the Government conducts itself and a strict adherence to the demarcation lines between officeholders and party political events. We raised this matter with the Government last April in respect of the utilisation of the national broadband plan for the local elections. Yesterday, what should have been a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: That is outrageous.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Go away and build the houses. Get them built.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: Go away and get the houses built there and stop blackguarding people.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: There are too many people homeless and too many people without housing for that kind of blackguarding.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: You are a disgrace.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: There is a growing sense that the Government is losing the battle against crime. People now regularly complain of the lack of gardaí on our streets, the easy tolerance of drug abuse, the open selling of drugs - including transactions on our streets and on public transport - and people injecting drugs in plain sight. People also complain about the growth in antisocial behaviour on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: The question I asked was whether the Government acknowledges the growing sense of anxiety and concern among people with regard to increasing levels of crime and antisocial behaviour, and the growing and open illicit drug culture on our streets. That is the key point. The Minister has not answered that basic question. I have knocked on many doors, including with Councillor Shane Moynihan...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: British-Irish Council (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: 40. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the British-Irish Council; when it last met; and the issues that were discussed. [47906/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (20 Nov 2019)

Micheál Martin: 41. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee at which public sector broadcasting is discussed. [47907/19]