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- Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Sir Humphrey is still alive and Bernard is helping him.
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach say that the timeframe for the health (transport support) Bill would become clearer soon?
- Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is appropriate to condemn the major incident yesterday involving a prisoner from Portlaoise Prison who violently attacked two prison officers while attending a hospital appointment and subsequently escaped. Can the Taoiseach confirm that every support will be given to those prison officers and that they will receive full payment while unable to work and while they recover from this...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government has taken them from CE and VEC schemes.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: On which they receive no subsidy.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Of course, they do, but they also want to mind their children.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: How will they pay the child care costs for a seven year old?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should talk to the groups.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: What does the Government have against lone parents? On 2 July next, lone parents working more than 19 hours per week will lose the one-parent family payment when their youngest child turns seven years of age. Up to 32,000 families will be affected by this measure and in many cases their incomes will be slashed by up to €80 per week. By any yardstick or objective analysis, this is a...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: What is frightening about the Taoiseach's response is the ignorance it displays in so far as he does not appear to understand the issue. The issue is not a reduction of a payment but the elimination on 2 July of the one-parent family payment when children reach seven years. Does the Taoiseach understand that this is what is happening? I cannot understand how he can credibly come into the...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: This right-wing attitude has seeped into Fine Gael and, regrettably, the Labour Party.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: No one is standing back and saying this will hit one-parent families by up to €80.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: The family dividend is worth up to €80. I have a copy of the tables, which show that the elimination of the payment will result in a reduction of €50 in the first year, €65 in the second year and €80 in the third year. I want the Taoiseach to stand back from the gobbledygook and language of social engineering that are emanating from the Department or elsewhere...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: These measures have a cumulative impact on lone parents who, among all the groups in the social welfare code, have been targeted in a most brutal manner. We have inquiries into mother and baby homes and all of that.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: This is a new targeting of families who need to be targeted least and require support instead. I implore the Taoiseach to speak to the Minister and prevent this measure from proceeding on 2 July. The silence on the Fine Gael back benches eloquently attests to how correct and accurate I am in describing this issue.
- Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is the Courts Bill 2013.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is proposed in the Stormont House agreement that the number of Members in the Northern Assembly be reduced at some stage. To what degree was the Northern Ireland budget considered in the talks? I do not know whether the Taoiseach saw BBC's "Spotlight" programme on the very significant number of fictitious front organisations which were receiving publicly funded rent payments from Sinn...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: It has not been denied. There was radio silence on it in the North.
- Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: We have spoken for a number of weeks about the ongoing accident and emergency crisis in hospitals. The situation has been getting worse. There have been days on which more than 600 patients have not had proper accommodation in our hospitals. The Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, does a regular soundbite in which he says he must redouble his efforts and people must move on. Today,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: I was referring to Deputy Adams's community.