Results 32,681-32,700 of 51,015 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: He has not answered the specific questions. He may not wish to hear my criticisms but Deputy Kevin Humphreys put it succinctly-----
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Labour Party Deputy, Kevin Humphreys, said that he had lost trust in Fine Gael and he felt the party was totally out of order in the way it was handling the water charge debate.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: He said that it is the second time that the Minister, Deputy Phil Hogan, has tried to bounce the Labour Party into a decision, the first time being about the septic tanks. He said it was no way to do business and no way to make rational decisions of importance to this country.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (30 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: 827. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19166/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (30 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: 835. To ask the Minister for Health if implementation of the national diabetic retinal screening programme has been contracted out to different organisations/providers; if so the details of those organisations/providers and the catchment area for each; the funding allocated to each; the basis on which the organisations/providers were awarded the contracts; if other organisations/providers...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (30 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: 836. To ask the Minister for Health when the national diabetic retinal screening programme began screening; the targets for numbers to be screened; the number of persons that have been screened to date by each screening organisation; the number of appointments made for screening at each screening organisation that did not subsequently take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (30 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: 837. To ask the Minister for Health the reason general practitioners making referrals to the national diabetic retinal screening programme can only make individual referrals and cannot simply submit a patient list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19194/14]
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: The programme for Government contains a commitment to legislate on the issue of Cabinet confidentiality. Will the Taoiseach indicate when that legislation will be brought forward? Given the selective and random manner in which the Government decides that it wants to breach Cabinet confidentiality, in its efforts to manage and control news and engage in spin, will the Taoiseach indicate...
- Appointment of Clerk Assistant of Dáil Éireann (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: The writ can be moved now.
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. I want to oppose the Order of Business.
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am opposing it in light of what has transpired in the last 24 hours. The contents of an important memo have essentially been circulated to the media in precise detail. I note that the figure of €537 million used by the Taoiseach is the exact figure cited in this morning'sIrish Independent. Given that we are going into a week's recess tomorrow, I suggest that the Government should...
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: We raised this in the Dáil yesterday. We have been raising it in the Dáil since last February.
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: We have spoken time and time again about the importance of clarity and transparency and the need for a debate on these issues. All along the way, the Taoiseach said that things would become clearer in a couple of weeks' time. He used the word "shortly" yesterday. He told us nothing about what was to take place at the Cabinet table this morning. He did not mention what the Minister for the...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is anything but clear this morning. No one could decipher anything from what he is saying. If the Taoiseach had turned on "Morning Ireland" this morning and heard the political correspondent, Ms Martina Fitzgerald, he would have heard that the Government was bringing this memo to Cabinet today and that this was going to be announced today. By the end of "Morning Ireland" the...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, the people I meet, including pensioners, are basically concerned about what bill they will receive in the last quarter of this year. That is what people want to know. They were aghast when they saw the €180 million extravagance surrounding the establishment of Irish Water. That annoyed and angered many people. There was secrecy surrounding that.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach endeavoured to keep it under the radar for quite some time. He then said he would publish everything well in advance of the local elections but he has not done so. He keeps trying either to leak or soften the blow, but the public want to know how much they will be paying for water by the end of this year. It is a basic and simple request. The only reason they do not know is...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: Is it because Labour angrily raised the leaks to the newspapers this morning and the Taoiseach has deferred it from today? What are the implications of that? The Taoiseach did not answer the question of whether there will be an ability to pay provision in the regime that is being announced. The memo that was circulated to the media says that any welfare protection has been categorically...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is categorically in the memo, according to RTE's reporting today and the newspapers.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is in all the newspapers that the level is €537 million. That is the exact figure.