Results 4,661-4,680 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Through the Chair, the Deputy made a snide comment. She does not have a monopoly on these things. That is the only point I make. I go to a local market. I mentioned local markets because I thought she would be agreeable that we should look after local producers.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy raised an issue on the ventilation grilles, if he remembers, and claimed that tens of millions of euro would be required. It subsequently turned out not to be the case. The point I would make to the Deputy is that inadvertently, whether it is the intention or not-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----Sinn Féin is a pawn now of where the contractor, in my view, wants this to go.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is what is going on here.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The contractor has been delaying and has not been resourcing the project properly or comprehensively. It is hoping there will be this kind of engagement here in Dáil Éireann to keep pressure on the Government and the politicians-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----to yield a bit quicker and give that contractor a bit more in terms of the claims it has made.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is playing that game.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: All the timelines have been BAM timelines.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I am speaking through the Chair. These are not Government timelines.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: They are BAM timelines.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: In respect of the October timeline, through the Chair, that is a BAM deadline.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Even this morning, what the chair is saying is that BAM is indicating, and the Deputy said this himself-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I think the Oireachtas should back the Government in being-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----resolute on this issue with the contractor and not fall for the game being played in terms of commercial strategy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: First, and I think Maddie is the child's name, it is not acceptable that we do not have sufficient early intervention teams in place for children at an early age. I say this because I accept the principle that early intervention makes a profound difference in a child's life and in the outcome for a child in terms of any particular need or issue that exists. The Cabinet agreed last week to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy did.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Ní aontaím leis an Teachta. Is é an rud is tábhachtaí ná go mbeimid in ann an t-ospidéal seo a chríochnú agus go háirithe, in ann déileáil go láidir le BAM. Maidir leis na dátaí atá ag an Teachta, go bunúsach tá BAM freagrach as an t-ospidéal seo a chruthú. B'fhéidir nach bhfuil sé...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----in terms of a very strong and robust engagement between the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, the Government and BAM. All the deadlines he came through with there are deadlines that BAM set. It is likely to be part of a commercial strategy by BAM to try to extract more funding and more money from the Irish people.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I put it to the Deputy that I am not going to take debate and I suggest he does not take debate either. For the last few years there has been a very robust engagement through dispute resolution mechanisms. The Deputy will cite hundreds of millions that have been submitted in respect of claims but the net outcome of those claims is actually a fraction of the overall cost of the hospital. In...