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- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: It was the Government that cut their pay.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: They have had enough of the broken promises on this issue. It is a national campaign and, they say, a last resort against a daily acceptance by Government of emergency department overcrowding. Does the Taoiseach accept that morale is at an all-time low in our hospital emergency departments? Does he accept that staff retention and recruitment is extremely difficult, that patient safety is...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer the questions I put to him, including the question about whether the Government has under-resourced the health service over the last number of years and particularly the area under discussion. Equally, I note the Taoiseach's use of language in stating that this is a "challenge" or a "problem." He has no sense of the crisis. It is not a challenge or a problem...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Reilly knew it was a false budget. It is very clear from the interview that he now feels he was shafted by the Taoiseach and is continuing to be shafted by the Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, whose only response is "It is his fault."
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is interesting to note that universal health insurance, which was supposed to solve all problems and was used as a cover for the Government to say it would take care of everything, has been shelved. The Government told the Irish people it would get everybody off trolleys. I had to answer questions from journalists who kept asking me if Deputy Reilly got it wrong.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: They did not ask whether Fine Gael had got it wrong or whether the Taoiseach or Deputy Varadkar had got it wrong, but whether Deputy Reilly had got it wrong.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I wonder how that happened.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is the favourite response.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: "Blame anybody but me. Move on to the next culprit."
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I want to put the following to the Taoiseach. In its strike notice, the INMO has made it very clear that-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I apologise, but I would like to get answers to the questions I put. The fundamental point is the resourcing of emergency departments. The Taoiseach talks about the reduction in the waiting time for the fair deal scheme from 16 weeks to four weeks, but the Government created the 16-week wait by under-resourcing the scheme at the time.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach accept the INMO's proposition that additional resources are required in terms of nursing staff in our emergency departments to deal with the record numbers languishing on trolleys on the Government's watch?
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I was one of the longest-serving Ministers.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I got a far better result.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: They should have been working last year. That is the point.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach agree with Deputy Reilly?
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Army was at the ATMs that time, is that it?
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Chaos continues to reign in emergency departments in hospitals across the country. In the past ten months alone, 80,000 patients admitted to hospital had to languish on trolleys for an unacceptable length of time. Last month was the 15th month in a row that increasing numbers of people were waiting far too long on trolleys. This period coincides with the period since the appointment of the...
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Who wrote the programme for Government?
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Hopefully, it will become the new operational word.