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Election of Leas-Cheann Comhairle (2 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: You are coming back, Finian.

Election of Leas-Cheann Comhairle (2 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I move:That Deputy Pat The Cope Gallagher be elected Leas Cheann-Comhaire. Is pribhléid an-mhór domsa an Teachta Pat the Cope Gallagher a ainmniú mar Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Fear cumasach éirimiúil é atá clú agus cáil air ní hamháin ar fud na tíre ach ar fud na hEorpa chomh maith. Is fear é a oibríonn go dian...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (2 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 64. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s projection of the number of medical cards in 2016; the number of such cards projected to be issued on a discretionary basis this year; the number of medical cards in circulation as of 31 May 2016, or latest date available; the number issued on a discretionary basis; the number of over 70s with medical cards on that date, or latest...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: This morning, I believe, the Cabinet allocated an additional €500 million to the health service, which is extraordinary in itself in so far as it illustrates what we had all been saying at the time of the publication of the health service plan at the beginning of this year and prior to the election, which was that the budget for health was insufficient and represented a massaging of...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The reason for the allocation announced today is because the budget provision at the commencement of the year was inaccurate and false. This was pointed out before the election, including by the HSE chief executive officer when he said very explicitly that there was an under-provision for the health service, which has been under a death sentence for a number of years in terms of a lack of...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Given the under-provision of €680 million in 2014, the under-provision of €600 million last year and the current additional €500 million now being allocated despite that we have not yet reached the halfway point of this year, there is no conclusion a person can come to other than that this is the result of bad planning and is resulting in extraordinary pressure on many...

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Is it the Taoiseach's view that the €500 million is to cover existing pressures on hospitals, or are there, line by line for each €10 million, additional services to be recognised over and above what was provided for in the health service plan?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Cabinet committees he has established since the Government was formed. [11436/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet sub-committee that will be responsible for arts and culture. [12877/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I take it that approximately ten or 11 Cabinet committees have been established. Could the Taoiseach indicate whether that is more than was the case in the previous Government and by how many? The Government's response has been to establish a Cabinet sub-committee for the arts, Irish and the Gaeltacht because it has been rightly stung by the very sharp reaction from the arts community to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach actually stated he was going to take over health.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach was never Minister but he declared to me in this Chamber that, and I believe the wording was, he was going to be taking personal responsibility for health.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Admittedly, it was at a difficult moment in the tenure of the then Minister, Senator James Reilly, and the Taoiseach was exasperated at that point in time. It appears to me as though the Taoiseach did not take personal charge of health for far too long. This has already been discussed during Leaders' Questions but the very fact the Government was obliged to produce €500 million...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach might explain that. He is a man of greater literary competence than am I and he might illustrate the difference between the two. I suggest its demise as a consequence of its abandonment by the Government.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I wonder how the former Tánaiste, Deputy Burton, thinks now. She was a great advocate of its removal a few years ago-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: -----but the Taoiseach steadfastly refused to countenance that at the time. In many ways, it is questionable as to whether it was ever constitutional. In many ways, it was a kind of Cabinet cartel between the Tánaiste of the day, the then Minister, Deputy Howlin, the Minister, Deputy Noonan, and the Taoiseach. The rest of the Cabinet did not get to see much until it was afait...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: No, Question No. 3.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Question No. 7.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: No, the Taoiseach is wrong in this regard. Question No. 3-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should read out Question No. 3.