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Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: What the people at the coalface want is answers.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: I asked about the Estimate.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: I referred to the Estimate.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach have any idea what is happening on the ground?

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Last week, Mr. Cathal Magee, the CEO of the Health Service Executive, referred to a €500 million overrun in the heath service at a committee meeting.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Of course it is, because a lot was put into Cork University Hospital in the last five years. Could the Taoiseach answer the question?

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: They are the Government's figures. The CEO of the HSE spoke about this last week at the committee. The Taoiseach should ask Deputy John Deasy about it.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Last week saw the spectacle of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, calling on the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, to intervene personally to address the deficit, as well as expressing his concerns about governance within the health service. Fianna Fáil has asked consistently in the Chamber about the proposed HSE governance Bill because, as the Taoiseach is...

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Would it not better if the existing board was left in place and there was a governance system? At the moment there is no governance system. Why abolish the board and have nothing in its place for 16 months?

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: That is no comparison.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, the Taoiseach can do what he likes in running this House. He knows that because he has the numbers. He should not be giving me infantile comments on whether I want the House to sit longer. That is his call.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach runs this House. The Whips are only nominally involved.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: The real point is that the Taoiseach has admitted to the House that the legislative changes upon which the Minister for Health based his Estimate will not even be passed before the summer recess. That shows how false the Estimate was.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: The legislation will now come before the House in the autumn and very large sums of money were based on that legislation being passed before then. That is what we were told last December. That is how false the health Estimate was. Patients are going to suffer on the double between now and Christmas because of that dishonesty in preparing the Estimate. The legislation will not now be ready...

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: I would like the Taoiseach to answer the direct charge. How can he put money into an Estimate when the legislation upon which it is based is not ready until the autumn?

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: I have asked that question repeatedly this morning, and all the Taoiseach can do is go back four years or five years. He cannot answer but he is responsible-----

Order of Business (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Quite the opposite. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is obviously not convinced the Government will succeed.

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: Last week the European Council and the euro group issued conclusions which gave us all some cause for hope. A new and more credible approach to addressing bank recapitalisation has been agreed in principle. A joint regulatory framework for the financial system will emerge at some point, although the scope of this is unknown. These are substantial moves forward. They mark a welcome...

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: No, I am not talking about the debt, I am talking about the economic and monetary union. The Taoiseach says that talks are coming up and that we will full play a full part. What is the Government's position on that?

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2012)

Micheál Martin: We should not wait for President Van Rompuy.