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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding his address to UN Secretary General's climate change summit on 23 September 2014, when he confirmed Ireland's support on phasing down HFCs, green freight, global carbon pricing and climate smart agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37638/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding his address to UN Secretary General's climate change summit on 23 September 2014, when he said that leaders must step up to the mark on the challenges of climate change by showing conviction, clarity courage and consistency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37639/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding his address to UN Secretary General's climate change summit on 23 September 2014, when he said that governments and corporations have a responsibility to define objectives and make policy decisions to take action to preserve our planet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37640/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding his address to UN Secretary General's climate change summit on 23 September 2014, when he said that Ireland had contributed generously to fast start finance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37641/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding his address to UN Secretary General's climate change summit on 23 September 2014, when he said that the climate conference in Copenhagen was not a success; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37642/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding his address to UN Secretary General's climate change summit on 23 September 2014, when he said Ireland had implemented a range of carbon pricing instruments including a carbon tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37643/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding his address to UN Secretary General's climate change summit on 23 September 2014, when he said that climate justice was a key element of the UN sustainable goals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37644/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that discusses climate change met last. [37647/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he attended a meeting with UN special envoy Mary Robinson while at the climate change conference; the issues that were discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37649/14]
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: There are 50,000 waiting for more than a year.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is not the correct record.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is what I said.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: I never heard the phrase “These things are never what one wants them to be” before the last general election. That was not the Taoiseach’s tone or disposition.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: It was. It was much different to the Taoiseach’s.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: If the Taoiseach had left well alone things would not be as bad in the health service as they are now.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach knows that. That is why he got rid of Deputy Reilly as Minister for Health. The thing was a mess. It was in tatters. All I said at the outset was that the number of adults waiting for more than eight months went from 1,700 to 9,693 in adult inpatients alone. That was the target the Government imposed, although the original target was six months and the NTPF was meeting it...
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Government does not know.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: What about the Dutch model and money follows the patient?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: We actually had a system in place.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2014)
Micheál Martin: I remember three or four years ago, the Taoiseach spoke in very convincing terms about dramatically reforming the health service, money following the patient, the Dutch model and the fact that everybody would be treated on time and nobody would have to wait ever again. The figures published last Friday tell a different story. One in every eight patients on a hospital waiting list is in the...