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- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: The cat is an essential part of the family farm, as the Deputy knows. In any event-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy McConalogue, has travelled to almost every mart in the country. He has met farmers straight up - those who might agree with him and those who might disagree with him. The feedback we have received is that people have admired his honesty, his forthrightness and his ability to be accessible to farmers the length and breadth of the country. He is not going to shout out...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----but he is sincere about the issue of making sure we have sustainable farming into the future. That is the correct approach to take. In terms of the next decade and how we position food production in this country in a way that manages to reduce the carbon emissions, I think we have created a roadmap now for climate change and for sustainable farming that makes sense. I am not clear on...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: They do not believe in the climate change view.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: What is the real world? The real world is the world of climate change.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: Because-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: I have no issue with people being worried but I can assure the Deputy we need to be balanced in how we comment on it as well and not be given to sloganeering and making assertions that are not true. I have seen all his presentations on it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: That is a very good suggestion. We thank the Deputy for volunteering for the vaccination programme early on. Others in the House also volunteered in various capacities to help out in their local communities. The voluntary, unpaid workers at the vaccination centres played a very significant role. They were partly responsible for creating the ethos of a community-based response to this...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: First, on Deputy Mac Lochlainn's point, I find it difficult to accept the bona fides of his proposition. I do not believe he is interested in transparency at all. He gave the game away in saying I am not supposed to recite the CVs of the members because it does not matter whether they are qualified. That seems to be his implication.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, the Deputy's party has never observed process when it comes to appointing people when in government.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: It is true. I can give chapter and verse on it if the Deputies want me to go through all the appointments Sinn Féin makes. All of the appointments-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----are characterised by the unusual coincidence that the appointees are party colleagues. The fact that people are qualified is very important. The Government has decided in respect of these members of the climate council-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for his question. I acknowledge what he has said and agree with it. We owe an awful lot to the front-line healthcare staff for their management of the pandemic. The most important thing people can do now to help our acute services and those who work in them is to get vaccinated if they have not done so. I urge people, without judgment, to consider getting vaccinated....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: Why does Deputy Paul Murphy ignore public health advice and deny it every time he comes in here talking about schools? I did not repeat a line. I gave a line that we have received in respect of consistent public health advice, but he continually ignores it because it suits his propaganda approach to all of this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy does not look at this issue from a purely public health perspective. He looks at it from a party or movement advancement perspective. That is my genuine take-away. The Deputy was an advocate for zero Covid for a long time, but now he will not even facilitate the extension of legislation to give capacity for Government to do things, if necessary, in the middle of an emergency....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: I am answering the Deputy's questions. The Deputy ridicules the idea that public health advice in respect of schools is valid. He has just ridiculed that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: Regarding another of the Deputy's points, he does not seem to accept at all-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: I have been in paediatric hospitals. I was in Clonmel hospital two weeks ago-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: In the paediatric ward in Clonmel hospital, I was told that the issue was respiratory syncytial virus, RSV, in respect of admissions into that ward and the pressure that the ward was under, and other respiratory illnesses. Turning to workplaces, the Deputy knows that we have worked with the trade union movement and the employer organisations-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2021)
Micheál Martin: ----- in respect of the return-to-work safety protocols.