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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (18 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 325. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his officials have spoken to or written to a company (details supplied) after receiving the Scally report in which it concludes that the HSE and his Department should have been informed before or at least when laboratories were changed in the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24927/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (18 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 326. To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding the lack of home help hours nationally; if the allocation has been spent; if his attention has been drawn to the impact this is having on elderly persons in their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24932/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (18 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 327. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has been in contact with him regarding difficulties recruiting or financing home help hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24933/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services Provision (18 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 349. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the ownership and management including board arrangements of Holles Street hospital maternity services when it is located on the St. Vincent’s Hospital site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24979/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services Provision (18 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 350. To ask the Minister for Health if he has met officials recently regarding the Holles Street maternity hospital being located on the St. Vincent’s Hospital site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24980/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services Provision (18 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 351. To ask the Minister for Health if there had been progress on the future management and board control of the Holles Street maternity hospital when located on the St. Vincent’s Hospital site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24981/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services Provision (18 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 352. To ask the Minister for Health if the recommendations of the Mulvey report on the future board management of Holles Street hospital when on the St. Vincent’s Hospital site have been implemented in full; if he has requested progress on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24982/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (18 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 503. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his officials have met with their counterparts recently to discuss shared health services in the North-South area; if there is room for expansion of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25617/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Cross-Border Co-operation (18 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 540. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has recently met his counterpart in Northern Ireland to discuss common areas of interest in cross-Border issues in their departmental areas of responsibility; if there are areas that can be expanded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25618/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I get a sense that the Government does not fully appreciate the terrible impact that tomorrow's strike by healthcare assistants, laboratory and theatre operatives and chefs will have on our health services. These workers are the cogs and wheels of our health service. It cannot operate without them. Patients will be discommoded. Elective admissions will be cancelled. Necessary X-rays,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I remind the Taoiseach that Fianna Fáil has facilitated the public service pay agreements under the confidence and supply agreement. It also facilitated the last three budgets and in the context of Brexit has fulfilled its parliamentary duties in a constructive and responsible manner.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Those are the facts. When it comes to the health service workers, the Taoiseach talks about the other side but he is the other side because it was the Government which confirmed that it would try to pay this out in 2021. This has been going on since 2015. We are not responsible for how the Government deals with the wider issues and the mismanagement of big projects such as broadband and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: It depends what it gets asked.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer the question.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I echo what Deputy Howlin stated earlier. Today, reports online, on every radio station and in every newspaper are about how easy it is for children and teenagers to access pornography. Many parents are wondering how best to protect our children and while no one can protect them 100%, it is certainly time the legislators caught up and addressed this issue. The Joint Committee on Children...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: We have done it plenty of times.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: There was the Land Development Agency.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: There was no legislation.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Most Members will have much sympathy for the British Labour Party in trying to block or reverse Brexit. Notwithstanding what has been said here, however, the reality is that the British Labour Party's principal tactic so far has been to block the withdrawal agreement. It is a remarkable fact that each of the Tories campaigning to project their Brexit purity last night has voted for the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the annual strategy update report in his Department. [24320/19]