Results 13,121-13,140 of 50,453 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 874: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a three year old child (details supplied) who requires a below the knee prosthesis with regular changes and adaptions due to their age does not qualify for a medical card; if he will reconsider the decision in view of the exceptional health grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35451/12]
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Last week I highlighted the farcical situation in the Department of Health and in the health services generally, with health officials sitting on the board of the HSE for very tense meetings in which, acting as health officials one day and HSE board members another day, they are not in a position to agree with each other, and a serious budget overrun which was at â¬250 million by the end of...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Can the Taoiseach confirm this morning why the CEO of the HSE is leaving?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Whether the Taoiseach accepts it or not, the current management of the health service is a shambles.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: The deficit at Limerick Regional Hospital is â¬9 million.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: The deficit of Galway University Hospital is â¬7 million, Drogheda is at â¬6 million, Beaumont is at â¬8 million, Tallaght is at â¬7.5 million, the Mater is at â¬5 million, Cork University Hospital is at â¬5 million and St. Vincent's hospital is at â¬6 million. I am not the only one saying this.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Everybody out there in the health service is saying the situation is not sustainable. We have already seen the high-profile resignation of the CEO of the VHI because of disagreements with the Minister. We have a volatile Minister, and senior personnel have left the health service because of his behaviour and the manner in which he deals with people.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: The exit of the CEO of the HSE is being masked by a re-labelling of positions. It is being labelled as some sort of fundamental redrawing of the architecture of health, which fools nobody.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is this. The Government is running out of time. It prepared a false Estimate for health services.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is without question that the Minister did so. I put it to the Taoiseach that the Minister put the CEO of the HSE in an impossible position 12 months ago when he abolished the board of the HSE and established the Secretary General as chairman of the board.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Without question, he is being shoved out of that position in an unacceptable manner by the Minister.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: I did not say that; I said the health services.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: I can, because the Minister took control of it 12 months ago.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Minister took control of it 12 months ago, he brought in a false Estimate and he is getting rid of staff left, right and centre.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Those hospitals have serious deficits. All of the hospitals are in crisis. Suppliers are not being paid.
- Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday, the Supreme Court overturned the 2007 ruling of the High Court to allow former members of consortiums that submitted successful bids for the mobile telephony licence in the 1990s to seek damages for alleged fraud, conspiracy, deceit, corruption and so on in public office. Last year, the Moriarty tribunal made clear findings regarding the awarding of that licence. In that context,...
- Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach accept them?
- Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach accept the findings?
- Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Eucharistic Congress.
- Written Answers — Building Regulations: Building Regulations (18 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Question 225: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his position regarding the role of chartered architectural technologists under the proposed Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2012, which in its current format will have a direct impact on their right to carry out their professional activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35628/12]