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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I have listened to the same Leaders' Questions from Deputy Shanahan for four years now. I do not believe he is being fair in his description of the economic, educational or health development and expansion in Waterford. In terms of employment Waterford is in very strong employment. Employment is up 26% across the south east. We are in an era of full employment. Enterprise Ireland client...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy has this tendency to suggest in a very self-righteous way-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: Through the Chair please.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: She has a tendency to suggest in a very self-righteous way that everybody else in the House has a somehow inferior approach to what is a very fundamental issue for all of us.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I will deal with the question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Cairns raised the issue of the Defence Forces and I answered on the Defence Forces. She said that it was all talk on this side of the House. I made a response, which I am entitled to make, that it is not all talk. I acknowledged that every Member in the House has a shared objective and I outlined what the Government is doing in response to the Deputy's assertions that it is doing...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is the case. Come on. In the past, I have seen investigations into horrific child abuse in respect of dental practice.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: There is no question but that the taxi regulator should have a role in ensuring that no rogue taxi driver, particularly a taxi driver involved in sexual assault, can ever drive a taxi again.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: While I will not go into any individual case, in my view, any taxi driver who has committed an assault should be in prison.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: Across society, we have regulated extensively.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: We have regulated extensively. With regard to the Medical Council and the Dental Council, we will continue to see if we can enhance that regulation.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this case and this issue. The life story she outlined is harrowing. I accept the presentation she has made in respect of that life journey and what happened in our past as regards institutionalisation and how our society evolved in respect of children who were subsequently adopted and children who were placed in less than ideal situations. The Deputy said...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: An audit, by definition, happens after a particular programme of action has taken place. You cannot audit something within three weeks of the money being allocated. That does not make any sense.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is what the Deputy is suggesting.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The whole idea of auditors going in is-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: Money has been spent; therefore, we go in and diligently, in a detailed way, find out where the money was spent. We do know that an additional 200 clinicians and so on were appointed and that there is a fifth theatre there. That is not all not directed to scoliosis. Of course, quite a significant amount of that will be of benefit to scoliosis patients. There have been other issues within...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: That cannot be done three weeks in.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The most important issue for us now is, through existing capacities within CHI and the hospitals and whatever other means in terms of-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----external work, to get these lists down as quickly as we possibly can.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. The Government published in 2022 a five-year zero-tolerance strategy and has established Cuan, the agency which we agreed with all involved in the sector would deliver on this ambition. It has an overall budget of €59 million for 2024. I pay tribute again to Natasha O'Brien and Bláthnaid Raleigh and others who have come forward to tell...