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Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: It will not do anything for therapists.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that we need a fundamental step change in how we provide basic therapy services to children of preschool and school-going age. What has been going on over the past number of years is just not on. The system does not get it. Parents are extremely frustrated at what is going on in terms of getting basic access to vital therapy services because early intervention is the key...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach accept that it is a crisis and that the current model being deployed is wrong?

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: It is a very honest satisfactory reply but it is depressing because the Taoiseach answered a whole lot of matters except the question I asked him. I asked him directly about therapists. We need a step change regarding therapists in this country. I did not ask about special needs assistants. That scheme started in 1998 and thousands were employed ever since and there will be annual...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I want to raise with the Taoiseach the appalling waiting times and waiting lists for children who wish to access therapy services such as speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy. Children from the earliest age do not have access to such therapists. That is the reality of where we are today. For example, Deputies Cowen and Fleming highlighted recently that in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when he established, or will establish, the Cabinet committee on justice reform. [12874/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I welcome the re-establishment of the Cabinet committee on justice reform. The lack of action and inertia within government and the system in general in the past while have been somewhat disturbing. I met representatives of a north inner city group approximately one month ago in the context of the appalling gangland crime in the area. Much of the conversation and discussion focused on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Why has it taken so long?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Garda apparently alerted people to this issue a long time ago.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Having an action plan for emergency departments by the end of the year. Let me refer to the restoration of the National Treatment Purchase Fund which I initiated back in 2002. Over a sustained period it brought down inpatient waiting lists for adults to six months and for children down to three months. It was, however, more than a matter of the allocation of funding which was obviously...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: There is a need for the Cabinet sub-committee on health to engage with enterprise and the Department of Finance to bring about a coherent policy on pharmaceuticals, both from a pricing perspective and the perspective of attracting inward investment. No one knows where we stand on this issue. The recent developments in the use of Pembro and new cancer drugs were unacceptable. The new...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet sub-committee on health has met. [14453/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I put it to the Taoiseach that the previous Government's Cabinet sub-committee on health was in many ways a place to which policies or initiatives were sent in order to avoid any action. The clear evidence of this was its one publication, the White Paper on health insurance, the status of which is unknown. Will the Taoiseach clarify whether that White Paper remains official policy or...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: We have been very clear as a political party that the housing and homelessness emergency is the No. 1 priority which must be addressed by this Oireachtas. Hence, I support strongly and pay tribute to the special committee on housing which was chaired by Deputy John Curran and which is completing its work this week. It will present its work on Friday. What we have here is an inclusive, a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet sub-committee on housing has met. [14452/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Fifteen minutes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: This is new.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach reply to all of us who tabled questions together?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: No. I do not think that will work.

Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, Macroom is in County Cork.