Results 34,481-34,500 of 51,089 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (22 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: The suggested living wage at €12.30 per hour based on the Civil Service 37 hour standard net working week equates to an annual salary of €23,747. Those currently on an annual salary of less than €23,747 may be receiving remuneration in excess of the suggested living wage through additional premium payments in respect of shift or atypical working hours or are on salary...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy has laid out the chronology of the situation on the new national maternity hospital and a new modern facility. The first prerequisite and objective of Government is to make sure that we can build a hospital that serves the women and children of the nation into the years ahead and that we build a first-class maternity facility with a neonatal facility co-located with a tertiary...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: My understanding is that St. Vincent's Healthcare Group communicated to us, not necessarily the Sisters of Charity, to be precise about it. The Minister is going to engage with both groups and others in that respect. He is back in the Chamber now, I point out in the context of the Deputy's reference. I am not sure what she is proposing, other than to raise the issue. I have been...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----in any shape or form, influences the operation of the hospital-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate the sentiments the Deputy articulated and the support he has offered the Government in dealing with this issue. I very deliberately yesterday and today stated that the Government has put in the bulk of funding and investment in St. Vincent's Hospital, both current and capital. The statement yesterday was not, in my view, an appropriate response at all. I said yesterday that...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: It can take a long time-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----and it could, let us be honest about it, undermine the prospect of ever getting the hospital built. That has to be weighed up. We do not rule anything out here but that has to be weighed up. The announcement on this was made in 2013. The Mulvey mediation took place in 2016. Planning permission has been granted for this. The enabling works on the car park and the pharmacy have been...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: As I said, the Minister is going to engage with the stakeholders involved-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: It is not just about the church anymore; it is about trusts that follow in the aftermath of what was once religious ownership. That is happening on a number of fronts. It is about the capacity of such trusts to be in a position to manage and govern major tertiary hospitals of this magnitude and complexity into the future. This is an important moment because it sends a signal to any future...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: Things are changing and moving in a certain direction-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----and the negotiations here must reflect that reality. The Minister will be engaging on this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: Ar dtús, táim den tuairim go mbeidh an t-ospidéal seo neamhspleách ar an eaglais. Táim den tuairim sin ón méid atá léirithe sna conarthaí go dtí seo agus ón méid a pléadh idir an HSE agus na boird éagsúla. Ní bheidh aon tionchar ag an eaglais ar an ospidéal seo. I am strongly of the view that there...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: It has been agreed that there should be co-location because that offers better outcomes for mothers and babies, hence, that has created a context to this issue.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Government will own the new hospital. The issue is the site, which the Government wants to own as well. A religious ethos will have no influence whatsoever in the running of the hospital, nor should the site or the hospital be mortgaged. Furthermore, strong public interest must be reflected on the board of the new hospital, given the nature and scale of the investment by the State in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: The key motivating factors behind the decision to co-locate the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, with St. Vincent’s were safety, optimal healthcare and outcomes for women and babies plus the deteriorating conditions in the existing physical facility of Holles Street. Those were the key motivating factors in the decision, eventually announced in 2013 after ongoing...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for her contribution. I do not accept the argument the hospital group has put forward that the ownership of the site is essential for the safe, integrated system of care. One can deploy many mechanisms to ensure safe integrated systems of care between two hospitals. The ownership of the site is not critical to that. Given the hospital, in terms of the negotiations that...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: Ar dtús báire, caithfidh mé a rá go bhfuilimid ag tabhairt lántacaíocht d'iascairí na tíre. Tá an Rialtas taobh thiar dóibh. Beidh mise ag déanamh gach iarracht chun na deacrachtaí agus na fadhbanna atá acu a réiteach. Cuirfear níos mó infheistíochta isteach san earnáil agus tabharfar cabhair do na...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: A no-deal Brexit would have been very difficult and the Brexit deal we have creates a capacity for us to try to seek to retrieve some of what has been lost.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Kelly is correct that the Minister for Finance announced this morning that the Government's intention is to sell part of the State's remaining 13.9% shareholding in Bank of Ireland over approximately the next six months through a trading plan. The State intervened more than a decade or so ago to rescue the Bank of Ireland. It protected the payments system, deposits, jobs and so on...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jun 2021)
Micheál Martin: It is investment.