Results 38,461-38,480 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commissions of Investigation (17 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: The NAMA Commission was established in June 2017 following consultations with Oireachtas parties to investigate the sale by NAMA of its Northern Ireland portfolio, known as Project Eagle. The Commission is fully independent and other than what is published in its Interim Reports I have no information as to how its investigation is progressing. Its original deadline for reporting...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: First, this has been an interesting debate. What has struck me are the attempts to sort of reverse the truth or to rename the truth and to make a declaration, which the Deputy has been making consistently, in the hope that it becomes the truth and develops into a new truism, which is that 300 years of a lease at €10 per year is somehow not ownership. It is ownership; it is public...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: We have secured public ownership of the hospital. That is the point.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: I understand the politics of the motion. I have been around now for a bit to understand the motivation behind Private Members' motions and the need to keep the Government under pressure. I fully understand that. We will deal with the motion in the manner that we as a Government see fit-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----just as you, equally, will put forward motions with a very clear political agenda behind them. We did not all come down on the last cloud. I am fully comfortable with what is happening this evening in respect of the Private Members' motion on this issue.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: The more important point is that the fundamental issue of ownership has been dealt with-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----in terms of the 300-year-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: With the greatest respect to Deputy Healy-Rae, when I spoke to him before the formation of the Government, his main request was that we would last five years and make no intention to undermine it in any shape or form.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: I am not a bit worried about Deputy Healy-Rae's faux bravado.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Healy-Rae knows where his bread is buttered at the end of the day when it comes to the longevity and lifespan of this particular Dáil.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: The more important point is the ownership issue has been dealt with and the guarantees are there.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: I will deal with the issue on which the Deputy has focused in Leaders' Questions. I have dealt enough with the hospital today. I watched that programme. It is not good enough. The State has failed the Milne family, and Ryan and Kyle in particular, in terms of providing a proper, comprehensive education for the children that would be appropriate to their complex needs. They have applied...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Government is proactive on this. The NCSE is very focused on the current legislative framework and on this on an operational level. Under the Acts that I have mentioned, very often the onus is put on the parents to seek to places. In my view, the system should be seeking the places for the child. That is the fundamental change that must occur. That requires an automatic response from...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: We talk about inclusivity, and the Acts provide for that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: I will finally say that there are approximately 19,000 SNAs in our schools at the moment.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: We have created 918 new teaching posts alone. This is an issue of-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----organisation, planning and so on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: As I did yesterday, I again take the opportunity to recognise the hugely important and vital work carried out by medical scientists, as well as their role in respect of the functioning of our health service. They are dedicated, professional and highly committed and have been so for many years. This was particularly the case during the pandemic. There is a long-standing concern. The...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: As I said, the most effective way to resolve this issue is through the labour relations machinery and industrial relations machinery of the State. It is the most effective way to resolve all disputes of this kind and, ultimately, the only way to do it. That is understood and accepted across all the social partners in respect of disputes in the public and private sectors. As I said, there...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is not present in the room at every dispute that occurs.