Results 29,041-29,060 of 50,917 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (5 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: 127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to his British counterpart about the public inquiry into the murder of a person (details supplied) following the UK Supreme Court ruling on 27 February 2019. [10591/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (5 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: 113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the lack of a Northern Assembly and the possibility of direct rule returning to Northern Ireland. [10910/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (5 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: 269. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a mapping project (details supplied) that was produced in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10316/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (5 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: 270. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10317/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: There is a crisis across the disability services sector in providing access to full-time residential care, particularly for adults with disabilities, as well as to respite care, home care and shared services. Parents of both adults and children are exhausted and stressed and have been beaten down by the system and the absence of services. There is a particular problem for children with...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: In other words, if anything happens to the mother, the HSE will look after her son, but while she is there, it will not because it cannot. I can illustrate more cases, as I am sure other Members also can. It is a crisis. I do not want to hear global figures for what is being spent and so forth-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach aware of the crisis? Does he appreciate that there is a crisis? What is the Government going to do about it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: Again, I will refer to a report. These are not scattered individual cases with which we must all deal. This is systemic, but the Taoiseach does not appear to understand that. This is a systemic problem, particularly in adult intellectual disability services. Parents who are growing old are extremely anxious and scared about what will happen to their sons and daughters and the Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: There are 471 children with a disability in foster care. A year after the report Molly's foster parents have had their home care funding reduced from €240 to €100. The Taoiseach appears to be unaware of the systemic crisis. That is very worrying for all of the parents who contact us and want something to be done on a multi-annual basis to ensure there will be a multi-annual...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: There is no complexity. They just do not have the resources they need.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: A total of 39 will take us nowhere.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: I think the Taoiseach is in a parallel universe.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (6 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: 79. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there will be tweaks or legal interpretations put on the backstop in the withdrawal treaty as reported in an editorial (details supplied). [10593/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (6 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: 308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a three bedroom house vacant or void at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10981/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (7 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: 148. To ask the Minister for Health if he received written or verbal advice, directly or indirectly, on free smear tests before he announced same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11348/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: I am sure the Tánaiste will agree that over the last two and a half years, since the British public took a decision to leave the European Union without any blueprint laid down as to what that meant, an inordinately long time has been spent on the intractable issue of the withdrawal agreement and its implications. We should always remind ourselves that the withdrawal treaty is the end of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: The question I put to the Tánaiste is whether he agrees that yesterday's agreement marks a significant development on that reached in December. I think he used the phrase, "It is different". I am of the view that it is a significant development. Whether it is significant enough or goes far enough remains in question but it is a legal document in itself. I say that because sometimes...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: It is ridiculous that statements on Brexit will not take place until 7 p.m. tomorrow.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: I know that.

Tributes on Retirement of Member of Staff (12 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: I dtús báire ba mhaith liom ar mo shon féin agus ar son ár bpáirtí ár mbuíochas a ghabháil le Patricia as ucht an mhéid oibre a chuir sí isteach i rith na mblianta as son na Dála agus an Oireachtais i gcoitinne. Ba mhaith linn comhghairdeas a dhéanamh léi as ucht an mhéid atá bainte amach aici agus as an...