Results 32,041-32,060 of 51,015 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (16 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: On the medical reform Bill, the Government did a U-turn on discretionary medical cards and the Taoiseach, speaking on the Order of Business last week, indicated that the Government would provide general practitioner visit cards to everybody aged over 70 years. Approximately 50,000 people aged over 70 do not have a GP visit card or medical card. I understand legislation will be required to...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: An mbeidh teist déanta aige?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: Who will set the exam?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Finian McGrath might do it.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: I did not say there was not.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: No one said there is any issue with governance.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: No, that is what the Government is doing. It is giving GP-visit cards left, right and centre now. We are talking about €1 million here.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach can bury his head in the sand if that is what he wants to do.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: Were representations made by anybody on behalf of some of the organisations? Was there interference?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach might check that.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is the most novel scheme for learning Irish I have ever heard.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is a great scheme: become a Minister and learn Irish.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of 26 disability and caring-focused organisations which had their money cut in its entirety under the grand scheme for national and community organisations. The impact of this has been devastating on the organisations concerned. Orla Hardiman spoke this morning on behalf of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland. Chris Macey, the chairperson of...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach's answer is not satisfactory in any shape or form.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: This is the appeals document. Appeals were meant to be received in May 2014, but obviously the local elections took place and the grants were not announced until after the elections for obvious reasons. The Taoiseach did not want this out before the local selections because there would have been hell to pay if these 26 organisations knew then. At the end of the appeals document it is...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (16 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: 292. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no weekend availability of MRI scanners at Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31948/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the first meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Justice will take place. [17511/14]
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: I congratulate all the newly appointed Ministers of State and extend my sympathies to those who did not make it as there are quite a number of them. Two weeks ago, around 26 organisations working in the disability and caring sector lost funding under the scheme to support national organisations, SSNO, that funds community and voluntary organisations. This has been a devastating blow. All 11...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: I do not know what planet the Taoiseach inhabits. I am talking about a figure in the region of €1 million and the figure relating to the Huntington's Disease Association of Ireland is €22,000 per year. The Taoiseach should forget the appeals process and sort this out.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2014)
Micheál Martin: This would not have happened if there was a national disability strategy as such a strategy is meant to allow for cross-cutting decision making. According to the former Minister of State, Deputy O'Dowd, the former Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan, gave this matter careful assessment before announcing the grants. Money has been taken from these...