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Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: They should never be put-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: Let me speak. I listened to the Deputy. They should never be put in that position. I am of a view that if someone is told to work a roster, he or she should be paid for working that roster. If we allow that to happen, we will undermine the whole basis of the degree programme - that is the point. We should not allow lazy or wrong practices by those who are meant to supervise and be in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: -----1,400 additional nurses have been employed and recruited since Covid began. That is not the excuse. It should not be an excuse-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: Undergraduate students should never be abused like that. That was not the purpose of the nursing degree programme. That is a very important point. Otherwise, we are regressing backwards to earlier times from which we thought we had sprung free. We invested a great deal in a nursing degree programme to make it better for younger generations to apply for and study nursing, and to aspire to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: -----that in addition to the reviews of allowances that will happen before the end of December, and in addition to the pandemic unemployment payment, pay for fourth-year nursing students will also be reviewed. The results of that will be available in November and we will pay higher allowances after those reviews. Of that I am certain.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: Equally, however, and separate to that, there should be a comprehensive review now of the degree programme and how it is operating on the ground. Deputy Boyd Barrett talked about the preceptors and he is correct. A whole range of management posts were created and resourced by the State to supervise the degree programme in our hospitals for a reason, namely, to prevent the exploitation and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: I apologise that I could not get to all the questions.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 77, 78 and 80 together. My Department has not engaged any consultancy firms or other external service providers for advice on COVID-19 restrictions and there is no spend on consultancy firms advising on COVID-19-related matters. My Department, working with the HSE and their contractors EY, the CSO, and a number of other Departments, have been drawing together...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Data Protection (8 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: My Department has been subject to one investigation by the Data Protection Commission since 2016, which was on foot of a complaint by an individual. On 20 June 2017, the DPC informed the Department of the complaint and the commencement of an investigation. The complaint concerned an allegation that a breach of the Acts had occurred by way of the unauthorised disclosure by the Department to...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (8 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: The percentage of staff working with a disability within my Department and the National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO) in 2018 and 2019 is as follows: - Department of the Taoiseach NESDO 2018 5.36% 5.88% 2019 4.33% 6.25% Returns for 2020 under the Disability Act are due to be reported...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: First, we need the truth here. The Deputy and her party campaigned for the reversal of financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, for years, from 2013 onwards. FEMPI involved payments to the people the Deputy just outlined. She knows that, of course, but it suits her to twist and distort the truth about the reversal of FEMPI cuts. Legally, in terms of those cuts, one...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is deliberately dishonest in her presentation of the story and the narrative. There was a delay for the great and the good. It was a long delay. If the Deputy had had her way, there would have been less of a delay, given her desire to reverse FEMPI a long time ago. She knows that, but she chooses not to say it. She also has refused and ignored my central point. She says that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: That is an exploitation and abuse of the students, but the Deputy will not call that out because it does not suit her political story.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. The lack of housing supply across the board remains a major crisis in our society. As a result of that, I have chaired a number of housing Cabinet subcommittees, all designed to try to break up the bottlenecks and move things on as fast as we possibly can both legislatively and in terms of various projects. From the July stimulus onwards, for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: In the first instance, direct build is the preferred model in the context of social housing. That is where the focus will be and where the overwhelming allocation of resources will go. In 2021, we will see the largest State-led social housing building programme in the country's history. We will build 9,500 homes next year, which is more than any single year before that. I will get the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: First of all, I do not insult people. I do not go about trying to insult people. The Deputy referred to the cases raised by him, Deputy Paul Murphy and others yesterday. I told him he should send details of those cases to the HSE in the form of complaints that require investigation. It was stated here yesterday that a student nurse had to console a mother at the bedside of her dead baby....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: Surely, the Deputy would agree that first, second or third year students should not have to do the kind of work mentioned by the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: He keeps ignoring that point I made to him. They should be protected.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that if the Deputy had had his way in 2016, the higher earning pensioners and public servants would have had their full restoration at that time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: That is a fact. One cannot legally discriminate between the two and the Deputy knows that but it does not suit him to spin it that way or to tell the truth in respect of it. He read out the case of a first-year student who had to wash, dress and feed a Covid patient. Does the Deputy think that is okay? I do not. I think it is a scandal.