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- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: The idea that the Deputy is being gagged or muzzled does not stand up to any scrutiny. There is also a pattern emerging here every week on the Order of Business that, irrespective of whatever is agreed by the Business Committee, the Deputy or someone on his behalf will stand up even though the Deputy was at the Business Committee and raise an issue of one kind or another.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: The issue of Covid dominates tomorrow's agenda, and rightly so. The Deputy wants to raise questions relating to the health service and so on. The reality is our personnel and the people on the front line are performing heroically, as I stated earlier, and they are doing extraordinary work on behalf of all of us. That is why we want to get the numbers down. That is why we want to continue...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: Tomorrow, the Minister for Health is in for 100 minutes on statements and questions and answers on Covid-19 vaccinations. I presume that will not stop the Deputy from asking other questions either and the Minister from responding. Then the Minister for Social Protection has 135 minutes on Covid-19 and then the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a fixed debate lasting...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Government is acutely aware of the enormous stress and anxiety that has been placed on leaving certificate students this year, particularly as they were in fifth year last year when schools closed as a result of the emergence of the pandemic and, because of this acute phase of the pandemic, schools have not been in a position to reopen. That creates real difficulties and challenges for...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: Last week, the Deputy was really on a rant about consultation in education.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy was the person who consistently argued about the need for consultation. To be fair to the Minister, Deputy Foley, she has been consistent on consultation.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: What I am saying is that consultation is under way and it is happening. When it is right and when the Minister has concluded those consultations with the partners and with the State Examination Commission, and with the advisory committee, they will-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: Deputy McDonald is out of order. The Deputy should not be interrupting me in that manner.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: I did not say that.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: I said last week Deputy McDonald-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: Hold on a second now. Deputy McDonald-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: No.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: That is what happened last week. The Minister for Education was attacked last week wrongly for not consulting by the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Minister is consulting with the partners-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----and is engaging, and we will respond appropriately.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy does not need to make an FOI request in order to obtain the Government's strategy on Covid-19. He is aware that the roadmap for living with Covid-19 was published a number of months ago and we are now at level 5 of that roadmap in the context of suppressing the numbers. The numbers are falling steeply but there is enormous pressure on our hospitals. As already stated, our...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: I am not as arrogant as the Deputy. I will always listen to other Deputies' perspectives and respond to them. I do not dismiss them like the Deputy does and I am not as cynical as him that he does not even bother worrying about or listening to the reply any more. He should not be putting the questions if that is his attitude. The Deputy knows I have spoken to the First Minister and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Dublin Government does not run the Northern Ireland Executive. The elected representatives in the North are responsible for their jurisdiction and the political decisions they take on the pandemic but the Deputy seems oblivious to that fact and that reality.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: We are introducing quarantine into the country.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2021)
Micheál Martin: We are introducing it and the legislation will give us broad capacity to extend it. The numbers have collapsed to very low levels in terms of people coming into the Republic and we must maintain that over the coming period. That is the reality. The Deputy is correct in terms of identifying the variants as the significant factor now in how we deal with international travel. There is a lot...