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- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is a good cue for me to put the question to the Taoiseach. Will he confirm that he will be coming into the House on Tuesday to dissolve the Dáil and go to Áras an Uachtaráin to commence the general election? He might be in a position to confirm that. A Cheann Comhairle, I want the record of the House corrected because last night the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, spoke...
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: These are not new social housing units, be it transfers from rent allowance-----
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----to the housing assistance payment and so on.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but it is playing with language. To be honest-----
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: People are fed up with this misuse and abuse of language in terms of trying to camouflage Government achievements when we all know that housing and homelessness-----
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The position in terms of housing and homelessness-----
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The record needs to be corrected, and I ask that it be corrected.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: On No. 33, the Technological Universities Bill 2015, there has been enormous disquiet among members of institutes of technology throughout the country about the Bill. There is a very strong sense that their points of view have not been properly articulated, represented or reflected in the Bill, in particular the issue of the mandatory merger-----
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I know that, but I have a proposal on the Order of Business. The proposal in primary legislation, that in order to become a technological university there must be a mandatory merger of institutes of technology, has caused significant disquiet and opposition throughout the country. The issue has not been dealt with properly at a local level. The Bill should be deferred until after the...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Government does not do any of that. The budget has not increased by €800 million, because the Supplementary Estimate introduced at the death last year was €660 million. In other words, the Government left the health service short at the start of last year. The increase works out at less than €200 million if one adds it up. The HSE is stating simply that, in...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The population is growing and demands on hospitals are predicted to increase next year, as we must all accept. As a result of an ageing and growing population, the population will increase by 1% and the number of people aged over 65 years will increase by 3.6%. However, the Estimate does not make any provision for additional activity, meaning that children with scoliosis who are already...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: We need honesty in the debate about health and services. There is a medical manpower crisis. If one speaks to doctors, nurses and acute health care staff, one finds that they are under enormous pressure. What the Government is doing with the health budget is fraudulent and false.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is pretending enough money has been provided when he knows in his heart there is not enough money available. He will use language to camouflage this and get the Government over the next five or six weeks.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: What will happen in the rest of the year? I asked the Taoiseach a question about the supplementary health budget, which cannot be provided this year under European Union fiscal rules. How will the health service cope in 2016, given the degree to which the Government has under-provided for it? This is not my analysis-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----but the analysis of the Health Service Executive, whose plan the Government approved in the knowledge that it was short €100 million for hospitals.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is my point. The Government is leaving the health service short.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Under this Government, the waiting time increased to 16 weeks.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I was reading again the programme for Government in respect of health, which I have described as one of the great works of political fiction. Let me read the key passage:This Government will introduce Universal Health Insurance with equal access to care for all. Under this system there will be no discrimination between patients on the grounds of income or insurance status. The two-tier...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach believe the HSE when it says it is €100 million short for hospitals in 2016? Knowing that there can be no Supplementary Estimate next year, what will the Government do if there is any increase at all in the activity in hospitals in 2016?
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 69. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his officials, staff or advisers are informed on a regular basis of pending job announcements by the Industrial Development Agency Ireland and Enterprise Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3453/16]