Results 801-820 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I take the Deputy’s point, although I do believe we need key powers to intervene. We need key powers, such as the US and major European Union-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Hear me out, please. Major European Union countries-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: We have done it. Ireland on its own is not going to shift the dial on this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I just want to make the point. I have noticed a shift in European opinion on this. The bigger powers, quite frankly, have to intervene here because of what is happening morally, and we will, too, but-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----the realpolitik of this is very clear to me. The big powers-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate we are all-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am just stating the facts. It is very clear to me that the major powers have to intervene to get Israel to change course and stop doing what it is doing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Children's Health Ireland, CHI, commissioned the audit. This is a very serious issue. It is of very serious concern to both the parents of children and to children who might now be teenagers. The audit is in respect of the period 2021 to 2023 and relates to developmental dysplasia. The decision by CHI to commission an audit was made in order to have an independent look at it and make sure...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, it is not your moment.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: The generic letter I have seen essentially states that it relates to a follow-up to surgery at Children's Health Ireland to correct developmental dysplasia and that an audit is under way. It also states, in terms of skeletal maturity-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Please, now. This is not about politics, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am not, now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: This is outrageous behaviour by you, now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Deputy O'Callaghan is entitled to an answer. It is not the Sinn Féin Deputies' question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: You have been doing this since this Dáil began, and I ask you to stop because it is too serious. I have no interest in hiding anything - none.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Why would I? For God's sake, reflect on what you are trying to assert. I am as serious about it as anybody is. It is horrendous if anything wrong was done but we need to find out the full facts. That is what we want to do in terms of the parents and children involved. That is it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Minister asked CHI to please tell her how many letters are out there, but the context of the letters is as important as the number. The final point I would make is my understanding is that the audit will be ready - fairly imminently, I hope. I do not govern that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I cannot force the pace in respect of that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: We need to tease that out. What are we saying about the letters that have been sent out? Yesterday a word was used, namely "recall". Once a number is announced, people will draw all sorts of conclusions from that number. My understanding is the letter has gone out to children who have been operated on, potentially as far back as 2010, or to parents in respect of a child. The important...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I know the Deputy dismisses people on social welfare. She has just done so.