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- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: -----and the Legislature. It is not, Deputy Kelly, and you are wrong to suggest that.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: In answer to Deputy McDonald's questions, those appointments came through-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: -----the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board in accordance with the-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: I thought the Deputy would be pleased with that.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: This is a very unusual procedure.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: I do not go into the relationships of people to any former officeholders or to Deputies in this House if they are appointed to a position through a recruitment process or the-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: -----Judicial Appointments Advisory Board, which this appointment went through. It was brought to Cabinet in accordance with the law and the Constitution. That is it.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: I take strong exception to the Deputy's remarks. I have repeatedly answered questions in here and I have answered the Deputy too.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: No impersonation of John Wayne will phase me. The Deputy keeps melodramatically suggesting that he will deal with people and that kind of thing.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: I am committed to the separation of powers. I am not so sure the Deputy is.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy needs to come clean. At the beginning of this, he suggested to me that I should seek the publication of correspondence.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy implied that he knew what was in the correspondence.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: So the Deputy knew.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy implied that he did.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: That is an important issue. The Deputy has come in week after week to create a melodrama that is disproportionate to the issue.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: It is not too late to brief party leaders on level 5-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: -----and I have no issue in talking to them, as I have consistently in the past. What I said earlier stands. I cannot stress enough that the Minister, Deputy McEntee, is anxious to come in and deal with the issues that Deputies want dealt with.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: I am not responsible for the various media commentary and reports. I always admire the capacity of good hard-working journalists to secure information from various sources, which continues apace. I stated at the commencement of level 5 that the landing zone for the Government was in and around level 3, and I have been saying that consistently. If the Deputy looks at what is allowed for at...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: That is the objective. It is my view that there should be a separate dedicated workforce for swabbing and contact tracing. That is what the HSE has been undertaking. That means redeployment back to the front line and to key services such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and other services. Those personnel are best deployed in those scenarios to look...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)
Micheál Martin: I have said what our aim and objective is. There are people who will build up experience over the first and second phase. We do not want to throw all of the experience out immediately. Some people who know how to operate and manage the system will, I imagine and surmise, be required but our objective is to have therapists back providing therapy services.