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Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: If the Taoiseach listened to the staff he would know that they are absolutely at the end of their tether in terms of the stress and strain in emergency departments. I saw a series on accident and emergency services on RTE last Monday week and the staff said it was appalling, from their perspective, to watch patients in such distressing conditions and under such stress and strain.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is not good enough for the Taoiseach to say that the staff are resisting change or that people by resisting change are slowing down progress, or for him to wonder aloud-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----why this is happening. It is his job. He must accept responsibility and the Minister must accept responsibility. It is not about saying the staff must accept responsibility. The staff are accepting it. It is really the Taoiseach's job to accept it and he should be explaining it to me.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I did not get an answer to the first question I asked the Taoiseach. The first question I put to him was------

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: -----why has the situation got worse in the past two years.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I would like to know why that has happened because if we could find that out, then the Taoiseach might have some chance or people might believe there is a prospect of him getting to grips with what is a chaotic situation.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: October just gone was the worst month on record.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: In 25 out of the 29 there have been increased numbers.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: It is a Government problem.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is in government. He is the manager.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: Cubicles are lying idle in accident and emergency departments.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I gave that to the Taoiseach yesterday.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: We are taking Leaders' Questions now.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I can assure the Ceann Comhairle the issues raised will be topical.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: The situation in our accident and emergency departments is chaotic and out of control. All of us in this House will have been shocked at the contents of a letter written by an emergency department consultant at Tallaght hospital to his chief executive officer, which was copied to the Minister for Health and referenced by me to the Taoiseach yesterday. It outlines how a couple in their 90s,...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach not ashamed of this damning indictment of his stewardship?

Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: Cuireann mise agus Fianna Fáil fáilte roimh an díospóireacht seo. Tá sé tábhachtach go bhfuilimid ag tabhairt ama chun ceisteanna an Tuaiscirt a phlé agus rudaí áirithe a shoiléiriú. Unfortunately, a pattern has been established in recent years where we are only allowed to discuss Northern Ireland when a new crisis emerges....

Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Government is bankrupt of ideas.

Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: On health legislation, in the past few hours I received a copy of a letter which has been sent to the chief executive officer of Tallaght hospital and copied to the Minister for Health and a number of other people. It details in an horrific way the circumstances in the emergency department in Tallaght hospital in terms of how senior citizens are being treated. It states that on one...

Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)

Micheál Martin: I know. This relates to legislation. The consultant stated this man, like others in non-designated patient conduits, had no privacy and no dignity, had been subject to constant noise and light torture, resulting in major sleep deprivation and pressure effects causing pain from lying for a prolonged period on a trolley which had not been designed for that purpose.