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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Priorities (14 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: Ireland’s Well-being Framework is the result of a Programme for Government commitment to develop a set of well-being indices to create a well-rounded, holistic view of how Irish society is faring. The overarching vision for the Well-being Framework is enabling all our people to live fulfilled lives now and into the future. As other countries have done, work on this initiative is being...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Investigations (14 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: There are currently two such investigations ongoing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: What is the name of the Gaelscoil?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: As in Fionnbarra.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: There is a Cork origin so.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: I studied hagiography a long time ago. The life of Finbarr featured in it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: I join in the welcome to members of Gaelscoil Bharra chuig Tithe an Oireachtais. Tá súil agam go mbainfidh siad taitneamh as a lá anseo. There is no question the war on Ukraine has very significantly exacerbated what was an emerging inflationary cycle coming from the pandemic, the fact that economies rebounded so quickly from the pandemic and the resulting supply and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----to get people through what will be a difficult winter period across the board. I think the budget gives us the broadest and most comprehensive way of doing that-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----and making sure that some of the measures would be applicable from day 1 of the budget announcement.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin has been asking us to chase inflation from the beginning. That has been a consistent theme that it has been articulating since the beginning of the year. By the way, protecting the economy is protecting our people. Protecting jobs is protecting our people. We should not underestimate the economic recovery that has happened, which gives us some buffer - not a total one - for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy suggested earlier that we were asking people to wait six months. We are not asking people to wait six months at all.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: What we are saying is that-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----because we have to go through expenditure in terms of detailed departmental expenditure to deal with issues like childcare, housing and-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: Sorry.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: I did not say that at all-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----that that is why we are ruling it out. Of course I did not say that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: The excise duty measures have been extended to budget day already. We fully accept the pressures that are on people. Since October we have brought in €2.4 billion worth of measures that, in many respects, are targeted at healthcare, education, fuel and transport costs, including reducing prices in public transport. Deputy McDonald also called for an emergency budget but I am not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: I do not disagree with much of what the Deputy is saying. People are terrified of the winter and we want to make sure we have a comprehensive package that protects people throughout the winter. Throughout and beyond the winter, we want to protect people as best we can. We have to do it while taking on board a range of issues. Right now, we have to settle our expenditure levels in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: I will make one key point to the Deputy first of all. He said that we are waiting for clinical reviews to get political cover. Anybody who knows anything about how healthcare has evolved over the past 20 years will know that clinical expertise have been the driver and has occasioned courageous political decisions with regard to modernising healthcare service in this country. Politics likes...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy knows that is not the case. The existing cath lab has four whole-time equivalent approved consultant posts. An additional intervention cardiologist post was filled on a permanent basis on 1 March.