Results 39,061-39,080 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: We do not envisage or advocate the nationalisation of the Corrib gas field. The European Union measure deals with the Corrib gas field and other gas fields in terms of fossil fuel extraction or production. Before any domestic measures are taken, it makes sense for us to have clarity and a decision from the European Union on the operation of the gas market and the mechanisms it would deploy....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: I will make two points to the Deputy. He said the problem has got much worse, which I outlined earlier. It was striking that he did not elaborate on why it has got much worse. It is because of Putin's war on Ukraine. The Deputy seems incapable of articulating that in the context of this energy crisis, as do many on the left, for some strange reason. The bottom line is Putin's war in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: We also increased the fuel allowance by 55%. That was a massive increase last year. Measures taken related to school transport fees, the school meals programme being extended and the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance. The student maintenance grant payments went up by €200 per year. There was the holiday earnings disregard and so on for students. We did a range of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: Prior to that, during Covid, we took extraordinary measures to protect workers and the economy, which resulted in the fastest economic growth of any European member state since Covid. That gives us the resources to enable us to intervene again in a significant way on Tuesday two weeks with the budget and the cost-of-living package we will announce. If we had taken Deputy Boyd Barrett's...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: We acted comprehensively to help people over the last 12 months and we will continue to do so. We will intervene again to take people through this winter period. We have to help people right through to the end of March. We also have to protect jobs, just as we did during the Covid pandemic. Whatever the Deputy’s views and although he will never accept this, we took the economy...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: Are you telling the truth on Navan?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: I am answering the Deputy rhetorically. Is he telling the truth? I have been through this over 30 years.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: I will say this much: we need balance. This debate the Deputy is having now has been waged across many locations in this country over the last 30 years.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy can go through them all.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: Hospital action committees-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: It was not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: No, it was not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: There was one gynaecologist, if the Deputy is talking about the maternity unit.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: I am talking about the first stance of the Deputy's party, which elected its first Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: Its modus operandihas been to exploit a crisis, get the marches going, get it simplified-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: It gets the issue to be "they are for it, we are agin it, and we will get elected". That is what is happening. It happened for a long time in health-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----until we got sense as a country. The Minister has intervened. There is a review under way in respect of Navan involving James Connolly and Our Lady of Lourdes hospitals and the clinicians, in order to get an informed view.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: Let us not undermine the motivations of other people who have different views, such as medics in Meath. There are different views between the medics in Meath. Some are genuinely concerned about safety issues, which have to be dealt with. I sometimes worry about the manner in which Deputies reduce things to just the electoral and political issue. That is why I have to say this. I have...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: It was taken in 2013. I have been here since 2013. At this stage it is manifesting itself. Equally, I would say we need a more balanced approach in terms of health. Yes, there are huge challenges. Covid-19 has had a huge impact on our hospitals, negatively. There is no question about that with regard to waiting times. We have to focus very strongly on getting waiting times down because...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: Centres of excellence were opposed the length and breadth of the country at the time but have resulted in greater survival rates for the vast majority of cancers. We need balance in the debate. I appeal to the Deputy for that balance.