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- Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Waiting times have become much worse.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: What changes?
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: There have been no changes.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Roscommon.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, does not agree.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Tell us how.
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: In regard to the order of the House for today, we have written to the Taoiseach asking that Members be allowed to ask questions of the Minister. It is an issue of public interest and a very topical one. I am sure the Taosieach would agree that if the shoe was on the other foot and it applied to a member of another party in government, the very least that would be required would be that...
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: In answers to recent parliamentary questions, there has been confirmation that there will be increased demands on the disability services after this school year and that an extra 650 places will be required. Every year, demographic funding has been provided to ensure that children who have intellectual disabilities can get places after the school term has ended. No such guarantee is in...
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Can the Taoiseach give any guarantees to families?
- Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (11 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has recently met with representatives of the Industrial Development Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30547/12]
- Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (11 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 120: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the areas in which his Department has responsibility in relation to job creation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30310/12]
- Written Answers — Youth Unemployment: Youth Unemployment (11 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the role his Department has in relation to tackling youth unemployment here and at EU level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26441/12]
- Written Answers — Sick Pay Scheme: Sick Pay Scheme (12 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 10: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will publish a Forfas report on the effects of changes to the sick pay regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34026/12]
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Upskilling of the population and the workforce is stated as Government policy and it is a great pity this aspiration is not matched by policy decisions by Ministers. The Taoiseach frequently mentions in the House PayPal and its announcement of 1,000 jobs as being great news for the people of the north east, which it is, and it is very welcome. However, as the Taoiseach can see, its chief...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: There are times when I find the Taoiseach's replies to questions both incredible and baffling. I have known for a long time that there is no restriction on the capacity of a Donegal person to learn any language-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----but the Taoiseach said we must start learning languages at a lower level. That is the point of my question. There is a programme called the modern languages primary initiative.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Exactly.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: A total of 550 schools participated in that which was good value for money in that â¬2 million was the annual cost. There were hundreds of teachers involved across the country. It was efficiently introduced into primary schools in terms of complementing the existing curriculum. German was one of those languages, and the Taoiseach has scrapped it for the sake of making a saving of â¬2...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----and a core skills issue is very clear. The Taoiseach does not know what he is doing, and there are no alternative schemes. He said at the beginning of his reply that they are doing other schemes. They are not doing other schemes.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: There is no other scheme in place at primary level in terms of modern languages that are sponsored and supported by the State. I put it to the Taoiseach that he does not have a strategy in terms of the language issue or the language problem, as the chief executive officer of PayPal identifies it. Will he accept that this is a further example of spin coming before substance and the policy...