Results 32,561-32,580 of 51,015 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: This is the case of a person who has motor neurone disease, who is on a ventilator and incredible care is being shown to the person by a loved one. The person's card has only been renewed for six months. This is out of control. It is a disgrace. The Taoiseach should hang his head in shame-----
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----over a policy that is focused on taking cards from people who need them.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: The legislation is there to allow it. The Taoiseach has been warned enough by many people on his own side, by Deputies on the backbenches and Deputies from every other party here. This calls for a genuine intervention. The letter from the Jack & Jill Children's Foundation specialist nurses was sent to the Taoiseach and it made a very good point. It said that the Government should...
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is wrong there.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: These are incredibly severe cases.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is what is happening.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: Of course a person who has motor neurone disease who is at the end stage should get a card. It is obvious. It is elementary.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Government has been trying to cut them - some 30,000 of them.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is refusing to focus.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: Okay.
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: A total of 31,000 discretionary medical cards have been taken from very sick children and from people with life-limiting, life-threatening and terminal conditions over the past three years. I have raised this issue on various occasions in the past 18 months at Leaders’ Questions, and the Taoiseach has consistently denied any change in policy or any move to limit and get rid of...
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: The chief executive officer of Down Syndrome Ireland says that half of children with Down's syndrome have either been affected by this cull of discretionary medical cards or have lost them. The specialist nurses of the Jack and Jill Foundation wrote to the Minister for Health. They care for children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions who need 24 hour care. They say the...
- Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: They had it already.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Labour Court Recommendations (14 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that his Department will not pay according to the non-binding LRC recommendations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21626/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Labour Court Recommendations (14 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is current operational policy that all Labour Court recommendations in favour of the complainant are not being processed during the lifetime of the Haddington Road agreement, despite the fact that there is no such requirement under the legislation. [21627/14]
- Order of Business (13 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, warned on Sunday that if this drift is allowed to continue, the Government will not last until 2016. He said we will not see 2016. This seems to have been supported by the Tánaiste, Deputy Gilmore. Apparently the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, is regarded as the praetorian guard of the coalition. He...
- Order of Business (13 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, said so.
- Order of Business (13 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is Mario Draghi, not the Taoiseach. Will the Taoiseach talk to the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte?
- Order of Business (13 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: But he said the opposite.
- Order of Business (13 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: He said the Government was going off the rails; he said the Government was drifting. He called for a programme of renewal.