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- Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: We gave them medicine.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach knows more than he is saying. Some nine months ago, he wrote to Mary Gorman enclosing an e-mail from Laverne McGuinness of the HSE. The offer nine months ago was €125,000, a 65% discount on the current price. There has been nothing since. That offer is not realistic. We are playing hardball with people's lives and there is a UK precedent. The National Institute for...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Council Meetings (4 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the decision made at the EU Council meeting in December 2014 regarding the €500 million disbursement to Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4303/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Levy (4 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance his response to the statement of the Pensions Ombudsman given to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance and Public Expenditure that the imposition of a 0.6% levy on private sector pension schemes in 2011 was legal but not necessarily fair; and that Government statements at the time of the levy’s introduction, to the effect that employers could be...
- Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: It will be some accident and emergency unit at that price.
- Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Parliamentarians should be similarly encouraged.
- Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Government Deputies have a habit of getting carried away.
- Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: The latest figures today from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation show there are 518 people waiting on trolleys in emergency departments throughout the country, with 54 people awaiting admission to University Hospital Limerick. Again, we are looking at a serious situation in our emergency departments. It is reaching critical levels and heading close to the record-breaking 601 figure...
- Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Under the legislation for referendums there is a proposal to change the nominating procedures for the presidency arising out of the Constitutional Convention. The Government committed to a referendum on that, as I understand it, in terms of actually changing how potential candidates for the presidency are nominated, which is a substantive issue. Can the Taoiseach indicate whether the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (3 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is already electioneering.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (3 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: In regard to Question No. 5, there have been conflicting messages emanating from the Government over the past months in terms of negotiations with the public service and wage talks in general. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, has been saying fairly consistently that there will not be any wage increases. Labour Party Ministers are falling over themselves saying there will be...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (3 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met with the social partners recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40968/14]
- Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: It seems the only person who had a persistent, consistent engagement on this issue is Deputy Alan Shatter and no one else.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: I said in writing.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: What is the Taoiseach's own view?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: What is the Taoiseach's view?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: As a Parliamentarian, what is the Taoiseach's view?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is not in the same league.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: It goes to the core of parliamentary democracy.