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Written Answers — Department of Health: Paediatric Services (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 213. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 29 May 2019, if the locum diabetic paediatrician planned for recruitment for July 2019 has commenced; if not, the reason therefore; when the matter will be corrected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40627/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Diabetes Strategy (8 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 214. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the plan by the HSE for the transfer of 100 adolescents to adult diabetic services in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40628/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The tobacco industry is one of the most evil industries that has ever existed, although it works within a legal framework. It has consigned millions of people to their deaths, destroyed millions of lives and injured and maimed millions more. It infamously targeted children to get them addicted young and secure customers for life. It suppressed for decades knowledge and research that proved...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: This epidemic developed from 2007 onwards. The fact that the tobacco industry is involved should send a warning signal to all concerned. There is terrible complacency about this issue. I do not know how these devices ever got onto the market without some controls. Young people are being targeted with the same strategies as previously, using flavoured vaping devices to get children on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: It happens once a year and I am not the author of it. I raise the issue of the prevalence of drug abuse in our society, which is at an all-time high. We all know people in our communities who are addicted or who have lost loved ones through addiction. The latest statistics from the Health Research Board are alarming. Between 2010 and 2017, some 63,000 cases presented for treatment of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: That is not the core of the issue.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: I believe that the health expenditure increase is €665 million, based on the Minister for Finance's comments yesterday when he mentioned that the €1.15 billion figure includes €335 million of a supplementary being brought into next year. We will park that for a moment. There has always been a health-based approach. The whole idea of the drug task forces was about a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The outturn is the key.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: It depends on how it is measured.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should go easy on the €1.15 billion. He is giving false impressions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: What about when the Taoiseach was Minister for Health?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach provide a written note on the matter?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Was that not the whole purpose of the Act?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: We waited for years until it was done in Scotland and now we are not doing it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not flag it.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should ask whoever wrote his speech.

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. During the past three and half years, the Brexit process in Britain has degenerated into a shambles. This has been driven by the machinations of the hardline Brexiteers who are increasingly unconcerned with the damage they have inflicted and will continue to inflict on their own country and on the rest of Europe. During the referendum, it was already...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments (9 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 74. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is finalising plans to fill vacancies in the Judiciary; his views on the fact that the delay in doing same is causing cases to be delayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41373/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Archaeological Sites (10 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 284. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there are plans to designate An Sruthán Pier, Carraroe, County Galway as a cultural heritage asset; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41592/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The savage death of Timmy Hourihane in Cork city over the weekend reveals the continuing and worsening homelessness crisis in our society. Our sympathies go out to Mr. Hourihane's family and friends. The nature of his death illustrates the fragility and vulnerability of many homeless people. There is a growing fear factor, whether it is in terms of safety in hostels, in tents or on the...