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- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: If all our schools had a similar pattern of self assessment, it would reduce our education system to ridicule. I have a far greater understanding of teachers' concerns about self assessment, given the Taoiseach and Tánaiste's self assessments. Can the Taoiseach indicate how the report of the banking inquiry will be laid before the House and the arrangements for statements?
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I always like to facilitate the Chief Whip in briefing the Taoiseach.
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: He is a decent guy. Regarding taxation-----
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate it. I am nearly finished. Can the Taoiseach clarify when the taxation and certain other matters (international mutual assistance) Bill will be published and whether it will allow for an extension of the maximum period of four years over which a taxpayer can reclaim any amounts he or she has overpaid to the Revenue?
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is hardly credible that the Taoiseach would say that.
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: They have ditched those Bills too.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Data (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 371. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of admissions through emergency departments that are privately insured versus public patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3138/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Data (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 372. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of admissions through emergency departments that are privately insured versus public patients and how this compares with the proportion of elective admissions from each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3139/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Data (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 373. To ask the Minister for Health if it is known whether patients are public or private when cancelling elective admissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3140/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments Data (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 374. To ask the Minister for Health if overall income from private patient insurers in general is taken into consideration when cancelling elective admissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3141/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Contract (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 375. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital consultants, by type of contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3142/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Court of Human Rights Judgments (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has discussed the impact of the European Court of Human Rights judgment in the O'Keeffe v. Ireland case recently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2958/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Court of Human Rights Judgments (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has sought legal advice on the European Court of Human Rights judgment in the O'Keeffe v. Ireland case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2959/16]
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I was reading again the programme for Government in respect of health, which I have described as one of the great works of political fiction. Let me read the key passage:This Government will introduce Universal Health Insurance with equal access to care for all. Under this system there will be no discrimination between patients on the grounds of income or insurance status. The two-tier...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach believe the HSE when it says it is €100 million short for hospitals in 2016? Knowing that there can be no Supplementary Estimate next year, what will the Government do if there is any increase at all in the activity in hospitals in 2016?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Government does not do any of that. The budget has not increased by €800 million, because the Supplementary Estimate introduced at the death last year was €660 million. In other words, the Government left the health service short at the start of last year. The increase works out at less than €200 million if one adds it up. The HSE is stating simply that, in...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The population is growing and demands on hospitals are predicted to increase next year, as we must all accept. As a result of an ageing and growing population, the population will increase by 1% and the number of people aged over 65 years will increase by 3.6%. However, the Estimate does not make any provision for additional activity, meaning that children with scoliosis who are already...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: We need honesty in the debate about health and services. There is a medical manpower crisis. If one speaks to doctors, nurses and acute health care staff, one finds that they are under enormous pressure. What the Government is doing with the health budget is fraudulent and false.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is pretending enough money has been provided when he knows in his heart there is not enough money available. He will use language to camouflage this and get the Government over the next five or six weeks.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: What will happen in the rest of the year? I asked the Taoiseach a question about the supplementary health budget, which cannot be provided this year under European Union fiscal rules. How will the health service cope in 2016, given the degree to which the Government has under-provided for it? This is not my analysis-----