Results 38,121-38,140 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Will I come back in on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank Ms Hanna for her commentary and the best of luck in her endeavours. She is probably in transit. The commitment is to infrastructure and to how we can advance services. Her point about Covid is very well made. I did not say so earlier, but there is huge potential for public health collaboration on outcomes in health and public health, such as Covid, infectious diseases and a whole...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank Dr. Farry. I agree there are significant opportunities through the shared island initiative for co-operation and getting projects off the ground. The all-island rail feasibility study is a particularly important one. It is comprehensive by nature but we would be anxious to get going on the more practical initial jobs that could be done fairly quickly after publication. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: My view is the UK Government and the European Union have within themselves and within what has already been discussed the landing zones to reach a resolution of all those issues. I am convinced of that. We have been helpful in that regard. People have raised legitimate questions about the protocol. I do not dispute that at all. We have actually sensitised the EU to work on those issues...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: That is a very subtle way of asking me to shorten the answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Will Deputy Tully repeat that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Someone used to refer to the midlands as the Balkans with the different hospitals competing with each other. The north east is no different as Mr. Brady knows. I thank Deputy Conway-Walsh for her positive comments. As she said, education is key to jobs, quality of life, future engagement and that whole idea of the Atlantic innovation corridor. We are funding interesting research through...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Has it cleared all the required processes? We can talk to the Department of Transport about this. The rail review, then, covers all areas. I note that Deputy Conway-Walsh got in the subject of the western rail corridor. Along with all her colleagues from the west, she has made the importance of this project clear to us as well and it is covered by the rail review. The main issue with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We are very conscious of the passports issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I will finish by saying, because the greenway was mentioned, that if any of the members have projects or ideas, they should let us know-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----so we can progress them in a programmatic way. We are anxious to undertake greenways. A map of all-island greenways will shortly be produced by the Department of Transport. The next question then will be how we can connect all these greenways over time. It will involve a ten-year plan. Existing greenways are everywhere. The question, on an all-island basis, is how we connect all of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Work of the Shared Island Unit: An Taoiseach (28 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The committee is very welcome. I thank all the people in the Department as well, including Aingeal, Eoghan and all the team, for the work they do in this unit. This initiative is genuinely gaining critical mass and many people in the research community are involved at different levels. Therefore, this is progressing in an orderly way. I thank the committee.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: At the outset, I would like to say that my only motivation here, as Taoiseach, is to ensure we make a decision that provides a modern, world-class maternity and neonatal hospital and facility for the women of Ireland now and into the future and that will allow all services legally permissible in the State now and into the future to be provided to the women of Ireland. That is the objective...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: What is Deputy McDonald's difficulty with a lease of 300 years, essentially, for €10 a year? Is that not, essentially, a gift of the land?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: Of course, it is.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, it is. To all intents and purposes, it is 300 years at a tenner a year. What is the issue then? It will be operationally, financially and clinically independent. All of the legal documentation underpins that, that is, a variety of legal documents from the constitution of the hospital right across to the operating licence the HSE will be providing to the hospital, obliging it to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: My answer is that Deputy McDonald needs to come up with a more substantial argument than the one she has come up with because I am not clear at all-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----in terms of what the Deputy was saying in her presentation.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: Deputy McDonald was not clear in terms of what she was quibbling with. Is she saying, for example, services will not be provided? It is not clear at all what Deputy McDonald is saying.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: It was not.