Results 28,021-28,040 of 50,916 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: 70. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has protocols in place with Industrial Development Agency Ireland and Enterprise Ireland concerning pending job announcements, if these announcements have to get clearance from his office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3454/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: 71. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on reports from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and others that outline how job creation is not linked directly to Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3455/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Zero-hour Contracts (27 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: 158. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the concerns of the Health Service Executive regarding banning zero-hour contracts because of cost implications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3452/16]

Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: It states:A system of Universal Health Insurance (UHI) will be introduced by 2016, with the legislative and organisational groundwork for the system complete within this Government’s term of office. UHI will provide guaranteed access to care for all in public and private hospitals on the same basis as the privately-insured have now. There is another full page on the universal health...

Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: It is a fair point, a Cheann Comhairle. This is all promised legislation, which never arrived.

Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Would the Taoiseach agree that it is a great work of fiction and that none of the legislation has arrived?

Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: For five years, I have been asking for these Acts periodically. Up to approximately three months ago, the Taoiseach kept saying there were delays but they were coming. Only in the past three months has the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, ditched the entire chapter on universal health insurance. Will the Taoiseach confirm that he misled the people on it five years ago and that it has...

Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: No research or homework was put into the universal health insurance project.

Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: We were told it would happen. The pathways are detailed on the fifth page, starting with the enactment of the legislative basis for UHI. It did not happen, and I do not know why. Maybe the Taoiseach can give some indication. Can he confirm that it is unlikely to happen, given that we are, potentially, in the last week of the Dáil? The Taoiseach attempted to introduce self...

Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: If all our schools had a similar pattern of self assessment, it would reduce our education system to ridicule. I have a far greater understanding of teachers' concerns about self assessment, given the Taoiseach and Tánaiste's self assessments. Can the Taoiseach indicate how the report of the banking inquiry will be laid before the House and the arrangements for statements?

Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I always like to facilitate the Chief Whip in briefing the Taoiseach.

Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: He is a decent guy. Regarding taxation-----

Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: I appreciate it. I am nearly finished. Can the Taoiseach clarify when the taxation and certain other matters (international mutual assistance) Bill will be published and whether it will allow for an extension of the maximum period of four years over which a taxpayer can reclaim any amounts he or she has overpaid to the Revenue?

Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: It is hardly credible that the Taoiseach would say that.

Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: They have ditched those Bills too.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: So the Taoiseach is not seeking it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: It was €8.9 billion. The Department of Finance stated it was €8.9 billion.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: That is getting ready for the manifesto.

Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Potentially, we are heading into perhaps the last week of this House. The date has been in the Taoiseach's head for quite a long time. I merely want to commend the Taoiseach and the Government on their capacity for self-assessment. The prospect of the chapter in the programme for Government dealing with fairness, in particular, in dealing with the health service, will rank as probably the...

Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)

Micheál Martin: Five years ago, the following was stated in the programme for Government: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 system of unequal access to hospital care will end. The Universal Health Insurance system will be...