Results 46,621-46,640 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The deadlines to which the Deputy refers have all been submitted by BAM at different times. I am not sure whether he is saying we should go straight to the High Court or Supreme Court and suspend all work on the project. I do not know if that is the Deputy's suggestion to the Government. Our objective is to get the hospital completed as quickly as we possibly can. BAM has submitted about...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: This hospital is urgently required for the children of Ireland. It will be transformative compared to what we currently have in Crumlin or Temple Street. Of that there is no doubt. There have been significant advancements on the project. The Deputy did not quote the comments from the chair of the board in respect of the current update, that all the tower cranes have been removed from the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy raised an issue on the ventilation grilles, if he remembers, and claimed that tens of millions of euro would be required. It subsequently turned out not to be the case. The point I would make to the Deputy is that inadvertently, whether it is the intention or not-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----Sinn Féin is a pawn now of where the contractor, in my view, wants this to go.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is what is going on here.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The contractor has been delaying and has not been resourcing the project properly or comprehensively. It is hoping there will be this kind of engagement here in Dáil Éireann to keep pressure on the Government and the politicians-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----to yield a bit quicker and give that contractor a bit more in terms of the claims it has made.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is playing that game.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: All the timelines have been BAM timelines.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I am speaking through the Chair. These are not Government timelines.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: They are BAM timelines.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: In respect of the October timeline, through the Chair, that is a BAM deadline.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Even this morning, what the chair is saying is that BAM is indicating, and the Deputy said this himself-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I think the Oireachtas should back the Government in being-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----resolute on this issue with the contractor and not fall for the game being played in terms of commercial strategy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: First, and I think Maddie is the child's name, it is not acceptable that we do not have sufficient early intervention teams in place for children at an early age. I say this because I accept the principle that early intervention makes a profound difference in a child's life and in the outcome for a child in terms of any particular need or issue that exists. The Cabinet agreed last week to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy did.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I did say earlier, as the Deputy himself referenced, there is a very significant recruitment campaign, which so far as resulted in 165 new job offers for CDNT teams.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is so far, and the HSE is going to repeat the recruitment campaign with a view to offering more positions in this area, to ultimately properly resource the CDNT teams. I also believe we need to look at it from a human resources management perspective to make sure that people recruited into the CDNT teams have an environment that is conducive, which incentivises them and makes for a...