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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Having an action plan for emergency departments by the end of the year. Let me refer to the restoration of the National Treatment Purchase Fund which I initiated back in 2002. Over a sustained period it brought down inpatient waiting lists for adults to six months and for children down to three months. It was, however, more than a matter of the allocation of funding which was obviously...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: There is a need for the Cabinet sub-committee on health to engage with enterprise and the Department of Finance to bring about a coherent policy on pharmaceuticals, both from a pricing perspective and the perspective of attracting inward investment. No one knows where we stand on this issue. The recent developments in the use of Pembro and new cancer drugs were unacceptable. The new...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when he established, or will establish, the Cabinet committee on justice reform. [12874/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I welcome the re-establishment of the Cabinet committee on justice reform. The lack of action and inertia within government and the system in general in the past while have been somewhat disturbing. I met representatives of a north inner city group approximately one month ago in the context of the appalling gangland crime in the area. Much of the conversation and discussion focused on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Why has it taken so long?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The Garda apparently alerted people to this issue a long time ago.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance his involvement and interaction with the fiscal council. [15602/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Policy (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 445. To ask the Minister for Health his role in formulating a cross-government policy on drugs. [15314/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Responsibilities (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 605. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her role in formulating research and innovation policy at Government level. [15313/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 626. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the European Commission's plan to reinvigorate the Mercorsor talks; if Ireland has an official position on these; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9982/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (14 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 627. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the latest developments at European Union Council level on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10685/16]

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I want to raise with the Taoiseach the appalling waiting times and waiting lists for children who wish to access therapy services such as speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy. Children from the earliest age do not have access to such therapists. That is the reality of where we are today. For example, Deputies Cowen and Fleming highlighted recently that in...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that we need a fundamental step change in how we provide basic therapy services to children of preschool and school-going age. What has been going on over the past number of years is just not on. The system does not get it. Parents are extremely frustrated at what is going on in terms of getting basic access to vital therapy services because early intervention is the key...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach accept that it is a crisis and that the current model being deployed is wrong?

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: It is a very honest satisfactory reply but it is depressing because the Taoiseach answered a whole lot of matters except the question I asked him. I asked him directly about therapists. We need a step change regarding therapists in this country. I did not ask about special needs assistants. That scheme started in 1998 and thousands were employed ever since and there will be annual...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I earnestly say to the Taoiseach that he should scrap all of that stuff that they gave him.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Go and talk to Deputy Finian McGrath and a few others and stop just making announcements and all of that.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Let us get some real actions on therapies in the next year or so.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Never.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: That has nothing to do with what I have asked. It will do nothing in terms of therapies.