Results 51,081-51,100 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but we have to say it is going to be done. Putting money to one side to enable us to do that is important. Healthcare costs will be the big one. Ireland's population is getting progressively older. Healthcare costs, combined with elderly care costs and pension costs, will be very significant in the coming decades. The Future Ireland Fund was meant as an opportunity to create...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: The ESRI has published evaluations of the potential impacts of various tariff regimes on growth in the Irish economy. It has used GNI and GDP metrics. Much depends on the scale of the tariffs. I have spoken to a significant number of CEOs in the pharmaceutical and medical technology sectors and they are concerned. President Trump has said that he wants to get manufacturing back to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: We need to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but we also need to look at how we construct services, particularly specialist ones. As I said earlier, I can remember 20 years ago having a fairly serious row with the private provider in Galway, pleading with it not to go ahead with radiation oncology because we had planned to develop radiation oncology in University Hospital Galway. We said that there would not be enough radiation...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: No, the surgical hub is not part of a deal because there was a commitment in the programme for Government for a surgical hub in the north west, on which the HSE is currently finalising a feasibility study. We cannot interfere in that feasibility study nor am I going to interfere in that feasibility study re the potential north-west hub and a business case will be submitted to the Department...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Fundamentally, it is our view that we are not planning for a constitutional referendum in the next five years during the term of this Government and we have been clear on that. We have developed a shared island initiative and we have put an extra €1 billion in there. My view is that we would have to build reconciliation and everything is not about a Border poll. I believe in Wolfe...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: The danger-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Yes
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Taoiseach (9 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is a fair point. The short answer is that we are. There is an overall skills forum which tries to identify skill needs into the future. We have also been increasing throughput in the medicine area over the past number years. The Department of higher education has worked with the Department of Health on this. In fact, we have secured places in Northern Ireland for medical students....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Ar dtús báire, ní aontaím leis an Teachta in aon chor, mar níl aon amhras ach go bhfuil an-chuid déanta ag an Rialtas chun an brú atá curtha ar chosmhuintir na tíre de dheasca an t-ardú ar an gcostas maireachtála a ísliú. Tá an-chuid déanta againn chun é sin a dhéanamh. In passing, I also congratulate...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: There will be supports in the budget to support people in dealing with the cost of living. Food inflation in Ireland in May was 4%. We are mid-table across the European Union. This is a Europe-wide phenomenon. It is a global phenomenon in terms of what is happening with the energy crisis. I love the way the Deputy tosses out an aside to the effect that infrastructure is on the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and that she does not have to account for it at all.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: We have spent record levels of investment in the past four years. We are going to go further again. The most important thing for the future of this economy is to ensure that we substantially increase and more than double the investment in the energy grid in order that we will have connections. That will allow us to deal with the growing population and economy. We have to ensure that there...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: That will be a more effective allocation of spending-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and prioritisation of the surpluses we will have at the end of this year and, hopefully, into the future.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I say that notwithstanding the difficult backdrop of the US potentially imposing high tariffs on the world.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: That would put a lot of predictions out.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for her presentation and I pay tribute to Grannies for Palestine in highlighting the genocide against children in Gaza, the slaughter of children indiscriminately by indiscriminate bombing and now the indiscriminate shooting at food checkpoints, which we have witnessed via those who have captured those images on social media. We often complain about the use of social media...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----on a massive surge in humanitarian aid into Gaza.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Can I say very resolutely there has been no delay in the evacuation of children who require hospital treatment or medical treatment?