Results 46,021-46,040 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Government has done everything it can, and will continue to do so, to get to the truth behind these terrible events. We remember the victims, survivors and all those affected by these barbaric attacks on 17 May 1974. We will attend commemorative ceremonies on Talbot Street and in Monaghan. I recently met Sir Iain Livingstone, the officer in overall command of Operation Kenova and the...
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Not all material has been supplied to date to the Irish Government's inquiries in the past------
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: We have made this point consistently to the UK Government.
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I apologise.
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Children's Health Ireland has produced a strategy and there is a national strategy for accelerating genetics and genomics medicine to build a strong national genetics service. It was launched in December 2022. It is important. It is key to improving the evidence base and infrastructural support in genetic testing. The HSE is currently examining national testing capacity and developing a...
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy did raise that issue. I will talk to the HSE, the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, and the Department of Education and I will ask the Minister for Education, and the Minister for Health in respect of the CDNTs, to come back to the Deputy on this. As I said earlier, we need multidisciplinary teams in schools. The progressing disability services programme has not...
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I will revert to the Minister on the timelines for the legislation. My observations are that no one in Ireland has any difficulty in accessing alcohol. Alcohol or certainly excessive alcohol use has negative impacts. However, there are broader questions underpinning the legislation, to be fair. Many people in the House have called for reform of the licensing laws. It would be useful for...
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: First, as the Deputy will be aware, 12,000 social homes were delivered in total last year, 2023. The provision of social housing is a very effective intervention in reducing homelessness and reducing the time people spend in emergency accommodation. The homelessness situation is now much more complex than it was five or ten years ago - the Deputy knows that despite the shaking of the head-----
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----regarding the composition of who becomes homeless, how people become homeless and so on. The first-----
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Yes, we have had new measures. The Deputy knows that.
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: We successfully intervened in reducing----- Deputy Eoin Ó Broin: It is not reducing anything. It is rising.
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Working with the homeless organisations-----
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: ----- to reduce and get access for homeless people to social housing much more quickly-----
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----than any time in the past.
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I am done.
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue of section 38 and section 39 organisations and parity. We are close to full employment in this economy and one of the biggest challenges in the health service has been, notwithstanding funding being provided, recruiting sufficient staff in certain categories. More than 28,000 extra people have been employed in health service in past four years and...
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: He is absolutely correct. It cannot just drag on year to year and a fundamental reappraisal is required, in my view.
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I want to appreciate the number of Sinn Féin Deputies who have called me Taoiseach this morning.
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Which sanction?
- Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: My understanding is that about €40 million was spent on the summer provision scheme last year.