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- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: This has been the case for the past two years.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: This is a very serious issue in that the Taoiseach has said 13,000 cards will be restored - the Minister said something similar in his press release, 15,000 - but the bottom line is that if one looks at the HSE performance report of January 2011, there were 80,000 discretionary medical cards. The reply we got at the end of April from the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, with whom the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Too much playing around with the figures is going on. I quoted from official sources - the HSE performance report of January 2011 and Parliamentary Question No. 540 of 10 June 2014. The number of discretionary medical cards reduced from 80,000 to 50,000, which means 30,000 cards were taken back. Will those who lost their medical cards also receive a refund because clearly by restoring them...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am talking about the difference between 50,000 cards and 80,000 cards.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but 30,000 cards were taken away.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: No, I am not. That is a myth.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: A total of 30,000 cards were taken back.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is 18 months since I began to raise the issue of the removal of discretionary medical cards from very sick children and people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions with the Taoiseach. In fairness, he has moved from a position of total denial of any policy change, which resulted in a dramatically high number of cards being removed from so many deserving people, to blaming a...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: 112. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting in San Francisco at which the undoumented Irish were discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25221/14]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: 113. To ask the Taoiseach if he had any bilaterals when he was in California; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25222/14]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: 114. To ask the Taoiseach the companies he visited when in California; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25223/14]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: 115. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed Ireland's double taxation agreement at any of his meetings with industry representatives in California; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25224/14]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: 116. To ask the Taoiseach if he met any political representatives when he was in California regarding the undocumented Irish; if any progress was made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25226/14]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: 118. To ask the Taoiseach when he and his Department received the Cooke report; the actions he will be taking as result of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25229/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: 137. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the corporation tax rate here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25225/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the European Commission's intention to investigate the corporation tax rate here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25485/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: 140. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress he and his officials are making with the EU regarding dealing with Ireland's debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25779/14]
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: I have read the Department of Finance's response to the decision of the European Commission to open a formal inquiry into a number of individual EU member states, particularly in respect of the application of rulings or opinions relating to a particular multinational company that has been in Ireland for well over 30 years and that at times employs up to 3,000 people. We need a comprehensive...
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Is the Government prepared to give decent Government time for a comprehensive debate on this issue involving foreign direct investment and multinationals but also SMEs? Let us have a genuine and open debate about where the country should go on this. We need to be far more assertive and robust in the EU than perhaps we have been to date.
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am not saying that.