Results 50,001-50,020 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: In relation to the Deputy's general comments, a lot of huge advances have been made in our health service as well. In fact, through the various layers of management on hospital sites now, we know a great deal of data is being collected in respect of individual patients once they enter a hospital and go in for particular treatment. A lot of information is garnered in respect of every...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is getting to the front line.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: We cannot be that superficial about it. Of course it is going to the front line.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, we need-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Some €25.8 billion has been allocated to health in 2025. That is six or seven times ahead of the figures from four or five years ago. The value-for-money thing needs to happen as well, and on another fine day the Deputy will be in here rightly raising those issues. He cannot have it both ways though. It is always a question-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: We will be allocating more to health. We do need to analyse it as well. Separate from the normal funding going into acute and tertiary services, we accept we need investment in the digital health area and we-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: No, it has not happened since the Deputy raised it last week. There has been a lot happening in the past week. The extension of voting rights for Irish citizens overseas is a complex and technical matter because that was the subject of the Bill originally.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: It was both overseas and the North originally in 2020.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is my understanding that it would require a referendum to change the Constitution, but we will come back to the Deputy.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: First of all, the Government has taken very strong action in respect of this. That is the international perception of Ireland, by the way, except in this House. It is probably one of the few places that does not acknowledge the range of actions the Government has taken, from the recognition of the Palestinian state to the intervention in the South African case under the Genocide Convention,...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Israel is rising roughshod over the views of the world and, as I said last week - Deputy Bacik acknowledged that, in fairness - committing a war crime-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----in respect of the collective punishment of the Palestinian people-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is continuing in terms of the prevention of aid, support and the basic necessities of life into Gaza.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: We have issued a statement jointly with a number of European Union states-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I have had enough of your statements. You would not take on the people that you know.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: You were silent with your American friends-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----on this question for a long, long time.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: In fairness, you were. You did not take it up with them.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is cynical beyond belief.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy said this was being asked for the third time today. I have not played politics with this issue, nor should he. He should not be saying things like "It is not credible". It is an external audit. It is independent of this House, independent of me and independent of the Minister, and that is the way it should be. Therefore, less of the high, self-righteous rhetoric about this. I...