Results 50,941-50,960 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: The issue really is in terms of the next budget and the Estimates, how best we use the resources we have to help those who need it the most.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. I know it is very close to his heart and an issue largely upon which he was elected. I appreciate and understand fully where he is coming from. He has raised it on consistent occasions in the House. As he knows, the Minister, Deputy James Browne, met with various stakeholders in Donegal in May of this year, including representatives from the Mica...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan and Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Boxer Moran will be meeting with the residents on that issue fairly shortly.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Shortly. Next week. The issue is acknowledged. That meeting will take place next week.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy does not want to build anything, does he?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: You do not want to build anything.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I welcome the Irish Wheelchair Association and the Tipperary Volunteer Centre. We will maybe meet them all again in two weeks at the all-Ireland hurling final. I cannot say, "Up Tipp" or "Up Cork". I am going to try to be neutral but I think people know where my heart is. On the issue of assessments of need, we set up a special Cabinet subcommittee on disability, which met yesterday....
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I share the frustration with this process. I will say two things in passing. First, notwithstanding the fact we await the signing off of the process, not on our side but by the group and the legal representation, a judge has been appointed. We sought nominees for the judge and accepted the nominations that were put forward. Meanwhile, anything relating to health is now 100% available for...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sorry?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy called it a transition plan but she is masking her real view that farmers should get out of farming. That is what she is saying. We have a different approach.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: No, I have not.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: MARA is part of the solution. In 2022 the Government introduced the nitrates action programme. The Deputy knows there is an action plan there. She also knows it is the most robust nitrates action programme to date in terms of water quality. Last August the Department of agriculture and marine published Water and Agriculture - A Collaborative Approach. Progress has been made with a 10%...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: We are not failing farmers; we are endeavouring to get a sustainable landing zone for all concerned.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I answered some of this earlier in response to a different question. Just to get a sense of perspective, progress is being made even within the existing system. There is no doubt there is a significant increase in people waiting. However, over 4,000 assessments were completed in 2024, a 30% increase on 2023. Some 1,400 assessments were completed in the first three months of this year, a...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Everything has to be evidence-based. The Deputy's assertions-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: The biggest major research into sexual abuse in this country was done nearly two decades ago and was quite revealing. It was not revealing in terms of race or anything like that. It was revealing in terms of the prevalence of abuse across the country. One can argue that was earlier, but it still continues. One can look at all of the inquiries we have had. We had one into institutional...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Get my point. We need to-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: We do need-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I do not have to prove you wrong. I just told you-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I mentioned what happened in industrial schools and in schools, in terms of other institutional settings-----