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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. School caretakers are essential and they play a vital role in the life of any school, as do the school secretaries. Whenever I go into a school, I always describe the school secretaries as the engine room of the school because they make things tick for the principal and everybody else. That is generally the situation. Caretakers also have a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. Is ceist an-tábhachtach í. Over the past 20 years, there has been significant professionalisation of the entire area of medical technicians and the entire ambulance service. Much of that was informed by international best practice, such as in the development of the standards of training for emergency medical technicians, which replaced a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: The report should be published. I will speak to the Minister for Health about the up-to-date position. I understand the report received significant media attention in one publication. If a report is commissioned by a service, it should be published openly by the HSE. As I said, the HSE's national service plan had various key performance indicators regarding purple calls, which are cardiac...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy has said herself that this dispute cannot be resolved on the floor of this House, and she invoked her own-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----experience in industrial relations, so I will not play politics with this on the floor of the House. I agree 100% that this is incredibly disruptive to many families, it is creating-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----unacceptable anxiety to many families-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----and it needs to be resolved. Given the Deputy’s experience in industrial relations, she knows full well that-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----the only way for this to be resolved is-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----in the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, or the Labour Court. Essentially, it has to be resolved within the industrial relations machinery. The Deputy knows that, I know that, and most people in this House know that. I urge both sides, in the interests of the people of this country, to get around the table and hammer out a resolution to this issue. That is the only way this can be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy has identified the challenges, just as I have.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: There is not much difference between what she and I have said.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: You have not asked anything-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: Through the Chair, the Deputy has not asked anything specific. Other than identifying the problem, she has not come up with a specific solution.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: Whatever does that mean?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: Come off it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: The only effective intervention is the industrial relations machinery. That is key.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: In any assessment of our education system, particularly our primary school system, it is shown to be one of the best in Europe. This is repeatedly the case with PISA outcomes and results for literacy and numeracy. Our system is very high up there in terms of outcomes. That needs to be said because the Deputy’s narrative was one of unrelenting misery and almost of a system that was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: We will focus on capitation and assess the capitation issue, which is the basic income that goes into schools to manage and maintain them on an ongoing basis. We will continue to invest in teachers across the full spectrum of issues that affect teachers. We will invest in training, particularly around additional special needs. On special education more generally, through the National...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: I dtús báire, cuirim fáilte roimh an Teachta as ucht an cheist seo a ardú. Is dochreidte é go mbeadh stailc ann an tseachtain seo chugainn. Iarraim ar Aer Lingus agus ar IALPA teacht le chéile. Tá sé práinneach go mbeadh cainteanna ar siúl anois idir IALPA agus Aer Lingus. Tá dualgas orthu gach aon iarracht a dhéanamh chun an...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (20 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: My Department is responsible for processing Foreign Birth Registration (FBR) applications for people who are born abroad and claim Irish citizenship through a grandparent born in Ireland or through a parent who has claimed citizenship also through FBR, Naturalisation or Post Nuptial Citizenship. FBR applications are currently being processed within the normal turnaround time of 9 months...