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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate the-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but not by the Oireachtas.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: No, it has to be a tribunal.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the implementation of the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37633/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate that, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I thank the Taoiseach. I submitted this question because I have been puzzled for quite a long time about the enormous gap between the reality on the ground regarding the implementation of the programme for Government and the actual programme itself. Nowhere is this more evident than in the "health and mental health" section of the "fairness"...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Those were all strategies from before the current Government came to power.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is all from before the Taoiseach's time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: GPs are-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: I got those responses. According to all of them, nothing that I have mentioned will happen.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Many of the legislative measures and proposals in the programme will not happen. There has been a change in policy. The programme for Government should be realistic.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Less is being made available. Does the Taoiseach not know that?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is not being upfront about it. There is less.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: So the Taoiseach is up for a debate. Will he be appearing on Vincent Browne's television programme?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach go on Vincent Browne's programme for a debate?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: "Tonight with Vincent Browne" has been waiting four years for the Taoiseach to debate these issues. Is the Taoiseach providing confirmation that he intends to go on television to debate them?
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Euro Health Consumer Index has been published and it shows Ireland has slipped from 14th to 22nd in its rankings. By any objective standard, a drop of eight places is dramatic and a damning indictment of the Taoiseach's stewardship over key elements of the health service. I refer in particular to the fact that official waiting list data have lost all credibility among the public and...
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is because cardiovascular disease progress started well in advance of the Government entering office, and the same applies to cancer.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Can we have a debate on it?
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: What is the intention?
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has an awful habit of doing that.