Results 31,641-31,660 of 51,089 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: Successive Irish Governments have been very committed to legacy issues in successive agreements that arose out of the Good Friday Agreement. There have been ongoing issues in terms of getting agreement and clarity on those legacy agreements and getting them progressed. Unfortunately those issues continue, notwithstanding the new arrangements and new commitments that were made on all fronts...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: I will have to discuss that with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. I will ask him to make contact with the Deputy. I am not aware whether he sanctioned that or whether it emerged prior to his arrival as Minister. The Deputy is referring to the TB plan, which suggests a very operational plan developed at operational level. I will engage with the Minister for Agriculture,...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: Irish Water has taken a decision in terms of its procurement policy and tendering out to one per county. I hear what the Deputy is saying. It has been an ongoing issue with the centralisation of procurement. Even nationally, the centralisation of procurement has actually disadvantaged smaller operators in the regions. I do not interfere in the operations of Irish Water, and nor can I, but...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: On its formation the Government established the following Cabinet committees: the Cabinet committee on Covid-19; the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment; the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland; the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change; the Cabinet committee on housing; the Cabinet committee on health; the Cabinet committee on social affairs and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: No.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: On the national alcohol and drugs strategy and the issue of community participation, I will discuss the matter again with the HSE. On the ground, the HSE clearly has a view and the Deputy is saying that there is a divergence of opinion between the executive and the Department of Health. My own view is that programmes work best when they have strong engagement with the community on the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 2 to 4, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on education was established by Government decision on 6 July last and the first meeting will take place in the coming weeks. It will oversee implementation of programme for Government commitments in the area of education. In addition to the meetings of full Cabinet and Cabinet committees, I meet with...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: I dealt with that earlier.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: First, I have not personally spoken to Electric Ireland. I told the Deputy that I spoke to the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan. We have been in touch with Electric Ireland, and when we get a response, I will revert to the Deputy. I also told the Deputy that there was a reduction in utility prices earlier this year and that the presentation she made on the previous occasion in the Dáil was...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: We are not going to produce optimal solutions left, right and centre.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: It is an option and some people avail of it. The third option is some other model to be developed which has to be fleshed out.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: It has to be fleshed out. It is not as simple as just calling for it. It has to be developed-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: -----and worked through. In terms of mental health supports, additional psychologists have been recruited under the roadmap to the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS. In addition, there is full provision for school guidance counsellors. That is something to which I committed during the confidence and supply arrangement and it is now 100% restored because of my commitment...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: Yes. Everything that has been done so far in the reopening of schools has been done in partnership. It is important that the inspections take place and that they are done as a way of ensuring improvement and constructive compliance. I surmise, and I will seek further information on this from the Department, that it wants to bring schools with it and that it does not wish to be naming and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: The planning for that starts now. The chief inspector was adamant that this is the plan and the commitment. In terms of higher education and the enhanced protection measures that NPHET has asked the universities and institutes of technology to take, each college is adapting various measures suitable to the campus and location. A number of them are online for many courses. One is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: That is why NPHET has advised. The Minister with responsibility for higher and further education is engaging with the various institutes and universities with a view to enhancing their measures further.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: The programme for Government sets out the Government's commitment to working with all communities and traditions on the island to build consensus on a shared future. This work will be underpinned by the Good Friday Agreement and respect for the principle of consent. I wish to see a renewed push to use the potential of the Good Friday Agreement to deliver sustained progress for all...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: It has to be all but that applies to Sinn Féin as well. Sinn Féin needs to adhere to international agreements, the Good Friday Agreement being one of them. I do not believe Sinn Féin should have collapsed the Executive over a heating initiative but it did. We were without an Assembly and an Executive for three years. This cuts all ways. I do not believe in or agree with...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)
Micheál Martin: I do not have to, because the Deputy is creating all these straw people.