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- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: I beg your pardon. The policy the Taoiseach put before the House would take ten years.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: I do not know if the Taoiseach saw last night's "Prime Time", which revealed a very serious analysis from Dr. Tony O'Connell, former national director of acute hospitals, in regard to the appalling situation within our emergency departments and in regard to delayed discharges. That analysis was written on 8 September, a month before the budget. He had some very telling things to say,...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: The fundamental point is that the Government had choices in the budget last October. It allocated €600 million to reduce taxation.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: At the same time, it was asked to provide about €200 million to this specific area to deal with the risks to patient safety and of increased mortality, which is the risk of more people dying. The Government gave about 12% of what was asked by the HSE when it gave €25 million. Two months into this year, all that can be said now is that it is going to get worse.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach accept the Government did not provide adequate funding in the budget to deal with this situation and to ensure that elderly people would not have to go through what they have gone through in the past number of months and are continuing to go through?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is an appalling response. It is extraordinary that there seems to be no sense of urgency in government about the fact that people are at an increased risk of dying in our hospitals because of lack of funding. Dr. O'Connell outlined that the loss of 30 wards of capacity means that fewer beds are available to accept elective admissions and that this decreases the ability to cope with the...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why was it not demand led last October?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Some €1 billion was spent between tax reductions and other things last October. The Government had warnings right across the system.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: The director general of the HSE said this is the "Achilles heel". He said 2015 is going to be a very difficult year.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: We know how careful people in his position are with language. I would take that as code for something much worse, by the way. In other words, the Government should have provided far more funding in the budget for health than it did. Year after year, the Taoiseach is providing dishonest figures on health. He is saying the figures are adequate when we know that, by the end of the year, they...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not a smiling matter, Minister Varadkar. It is about time we had less of the Minister's detached commentary. People are dying in hospitals because he is putting other options and choices ahead of people in dire need now in our health service.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: The people of Roscommon know about the back of a lorry only too well.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not me. It is the former director, Dr. Tony O'Connell.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Safety (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 170. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the situation involving a building (details supplied) in County Clare; if he or his Department have investigated the circumstances surrounding the building's fire safety compliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8317/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is prepared to sanction a route development fund for Cork Airport to ensure a sustainable future for that airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8401/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the continuous annual decline of passenger numbers going through Cork Airport; his plans to create a sustainable pathway for future growth at the airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8402/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reconsider establishing the Cork Airport Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8403/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Airports (25 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that the draft national aviation plan outlines a sustainable pathway for growth at Cork Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8404/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government is not supportive of it. It buried it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Everyone concerned buried it.