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- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: We have had the proposals from the Government without any consultation or discussion whatsoever. I raise the NIRAS report as just one example and illustration of the need for detailed analysis and clarity as to what the agenda is. Was Aer Lingus forthcoming to the Government about that report? Has the Minister seen it and, if so, when? The Dáil has not seen it. The analysis in the...
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am within Standing Orders.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Twelve weeks pay was taken from existing pensioners. Why did that happen? It happened because the Government was preparing Aer Lingus for sale. It got rid of the pension deficit and got its 25.1% stake sorted.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am about to conclude. There are a lot of stakeholder groups, such as the pensioners, who would like an opportunity to put their case before the transport committee of the Oireachtas.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: There are a lot of people from the regions and a lot of Deputies who would like to hear a better analysis. While Deputies made a valuable contribution, Independent Senator Sean D. Barrett, for example, a very well informed expert on aviation, made very telling points at the Oireachtas committee. I do not see why the Government-----
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: 73. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he or his Department has received representations from employees of a factory (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21005/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: 74. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is aware that employees have been made redundant from a factory (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21006/15]
- Order of Business (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: What are the costings?
- Order of Business (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is the lie, though.
- Order of Business (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not like the system in the Netherlands. That is the lie.
- Order of Business (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Four years later.
- Order of Business (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach confirmed earlier that the Government told a major untruth before the last general election that it would introduce the Dutch model of universal health insurance, UHI. Papers were published, there were detailed documents and visits to Holland and the country was led to believe for a full year that this was the Holy Grail of health solutions and health policies. I was...
- Order of Business (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Dutch model is gone.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I raise one specific issue. The Taoiseach replied in relation to Portlaoise. The health committee of the Cabinet met in May. The Taoiseach said it meets monthly and gave out the dates of the previous five meetings. Repeated warnings were given in relation to safety in the maternity unit at Portlaoise in particular as well as to other obstetric units. The Joint Committee on Health and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is a different grade.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: They did. The Minister should speak to those involved with the NTPF. It was a success but the previous Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, created a different agency and he employed people who had contracts overseas. They did not even pay tax in this country. The exercise went nowhere. Essentially, the Government undermined the NTPF at a time when it was making inroads. The idea of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: What was the outcome of the survey?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach cited the Dutch model.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: It was the only one. The Taoiseach told the people that we would follow the Dutch model.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Fine Gael paraded it up and down the country.