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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is not going to be gifted.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: May I ask a brief supplementary question?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: I am not talking about voluntarism in respect of St. Vincent's Hospital and Mercy hospital. These are systemic hospitals. They are big concerns in which there has been significant investment by the State. To all intents and purposes, they are tertiary hospitals and will remain so into the future. The religious orders have exited the governance of the hospitals. The danger with a lay...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: There is no volunteerism in them at present.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach replying to Questions Nos. 5 to 10, inclusive?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: He is taking the economy and agriculture together.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: Brexit represents by far the biggest economic risk our country faces in the short, medium and long terms. The Central Bank has said it is already impacting on key parts of the economy. The budget documentation issued by the Minister for Finance two months ago states that the fiscal situation is exposed to a failure to achieve an orderly Brexit. Nearly half of exports are to the United...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: We were told that we could not see what was put before the Cabinet. The Government is withholding stuff.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: The essence of what was in that-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: But you do know.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said that we were the laggards----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: ----and that we are approximating the truth, unfortunately.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: I am talking about our performance in trying to change the country, and it is very poor.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: That is why we do not believe the homeless statistics either with the-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: Not according to the ESRI.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: We bow before the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: We bow before the Taoiseach. 4 o’clock ------is that if we do not increase tax credits every year either in line with inflation or wages-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: We never did.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: What they are saying is what the ESRI says.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: Yes, that is fair enough.