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- Other Questions: School Patronage (17 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes he plans to make with regard to school patronage at primary level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17541/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Performance Management Systems (17 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to introduce annual evaluations and reviews of teacher performance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17542/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Croke Park Agreement Issues (17 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on his role and that of his Department in the recent Croke Park negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13595/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (17 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress that has been made on the commitment in the Programme for Government on opening principal officer appointments to external applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12333/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Proposed Legislation (17 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the commitment in the Programme for Government to legislate for a reformulated code of laws, replacing both the Ministers and Secretaries Acts and the Public Service Management Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12335/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (17 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that TLAC has been overhauled to include the majority of members drawn from outside the public sector as per the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12334/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Establishment (17 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the costs associated with the establishment of Irish Water; if he will outline in detail the areas of spending his Department has approved for this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17911/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Establishment (17 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount that Irish Water and local authorities will spend on external consultancy contracts during the process of establishing Irish Water and transferring responsibilities and assets; if he will outline details of any tenders already awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17912/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Establishment (17 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the assets that will be transferred from Dublin City Council, South Dublin County Council, Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council and Fingal County Council to Irish Water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17913/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Establishment (17 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the properties transferred from the Dublin local authorities to Irish Water will be subject to local authority rates; if so, if he will provide an estimate of this cost to Irish Water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17914/13]
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, is assuring everyone that the health service is getting better and waiting lists are getting shorter. He assures us that patients who are waiting the longest for treatment are in fact being treated. Unfortunately, the facts and figures confirm that since taking office, the number of adults waiting for surgery in the country's hospitals has actually...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: These are not my figures but come from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, which, on entering office, the Minister, Deputy Reilly, indicated he would accept as being the official figures in respect of trolley count, enclosures and so on.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: Does the Tánaiste acknowledge the health service is now under extraordinary strain and requires dramatic intervention by the Government to arrest the crumbling across the board of all aspects of the service it attempts to provide for the people?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: The first thing the Minister did when he came into office was change the targets. The internationally recognised targets for waiting lists were three months and six months. He unilaterally said it is 12 months. He had to massage the figures and perpetrate a con trick. That is what he did. The SDU has refined his machinations to nine months and over. The figures for three months and over...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is important to put aside the spin and acknowledge that a dramatic intervention is needed. The Government needs to stand back from this, assess the crisis and then work out a proper pathway towards resolving it to ensure that as a minimum in difficult times we can provide a basic health service to our public and that operations that are needed are carried out.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister is saying everything is fine.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Health is saying everything is fine.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is the usual argument.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister will not be turning to Deputy Shortall. We all know where the Tánaiste stands in respect of the Minister for Health. He is four square behind him.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: I have not said a word. The Tánaiste is too precious about himself.