Results 47,401-47,420 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is what you said in your budget. You would have done it all at once, back in April, with an 8% increase on petrol and a 6% increase on diesel. The Government took a different view. We wanted to try to reduce the pressures on the public, unlike the Sinn Féin proposal, and we will keep it under review.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is correct that Beaumont is one of the older national hospitals, and I think Cork University Hospital was a replication of it. I think the then Minister, Charles Haughey, decided he did not want any more new designers and he said they should just bring the plan from Beaumont to Cork, and we got a hospital much faster. They are old hospitals and they have been subject to a lot of...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: We are not sitting on the report. Everybody in the House should analyse the report, including the Social Democrats.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: No, in terms of the rental market. I am not sure that what it recommends would fit with the policy platform of the Deputy's party in terms of the rental market. We need to examine it and the Department is examining it. It is a substantial and comprehensive document which merits detailed examination. Some issues are being progressed but it merits detailed examination, as opposed to...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: They should be able to use the playgrounds.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I will follow that up. As the Deputy said, the housing policy is that it be available to all.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: There should not be social segregation. It is abhorrent to our way of thinking and values as a society. There cannot be that segregation. I will talk to the Minister on enforcement of the policy.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for his generosity of spirit in texting me on Sunday congratulating the Cork hurling team on its success.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: Waterford hospital is one of the best-performing hospitals in the country. I pay tribute to all the staff who work there. We are committed to increasing investment in the hospital. In 2019, it had a budget of €201 million; in 2024, the budget is more than €290 million. That has grown by €89 million, which is a substantial investment.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: Staffing in the hospital has grown by 841, or 44%, since the end of December 2019, from 1,949 to 2,805.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: There are 47 more consultants, 100 additional non-consultant hospital doctors and 370 more nurses and midwives, as well as 123 additional health and social care professionals. It has dramatically increased.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The people decided in the referendum and-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The people decided in the referendum and governments and political parties of all persuasions must uphold the decision of the people in terms of legislating for what was decided in a constitutional referendum. That said, a range of measures have been provided for and funded. Free contraception up to the age of 35 is a significant measure and an enhancement of what went before. There have...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: The answer is it has not been about reducing cost because the older scheme in 2019 was far inferior and costs have gone up dramatically. As I said earlier, the provision for the costs is about €2.3 billion. I do not understand how anyone could say that amounts to reducing costs. We have increased the maximum grant available to €420,000. On top of that, recipients get the...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: And also in terms of rental and so on like that.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: You settled for less.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: You settled for less in 2019.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate that Deputy Mac Lochlainn referred to me as the Taoiseach. I clearly made a lasting impact on him.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate the Minister, Deputy Foley, and the Minister of State, Deputy Anne Rabbitte, met with SNAP, which is the parent representative body. Obviously, as regard to decisions that are required for a new school, it does not happen overnight, as Deputy Smyth will know. I refer to decisions about the type of school and the range and spectrum of additional needs which would be catered for....
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jul 2024)
Micheál Martin: First, the Government provided this cross-Border healthcare programme to substitute for the older-----