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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: 743. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on home repossessions. [44114/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Same-sex Marriage (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: 744. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered a referendum on same sex marriage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43147/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: 1105. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive has discontinued physiotherapy in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan with multiple sclerosis; if this is happening for all physiotherapy and walking assistance services for multiple sclerosis sufferers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46178/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (5 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: 1188. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who has been informed that they are not entitled to a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46750/13]

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: Letters from the chief executive officers of four of the largest hospitals in the State, St. James’s, Tallaght, the Mater and Our Lady’s in Crumlin, to the director general of the Health Service Executive, HSE, and revealed in last evening’s “Prime Time” programme illustrate how untenable the Government’s budgetary strategy is for the health service....

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach’s reply follows a well worn pattern at this stage - denial after denial. The chief executive officers in question are conservative and would be the last to come out with a letter like this to the HSE. It is carefully written, but when it is decoded, they are saying they cannot take any further cut to hospital budgets and stand over patient safety in the current...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: Can we have less of the denial? No one can pinpoint the proposed cuts in the health service at this stage because the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform handed them to the Minister for Health with a take it or leave it ultimatum. Meanwhile, the HSE claims the cuts will amount to €1 billion when they are finished, not €666 million. The Taoiseach is getting many...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: I never said that. It is an issue.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: I have the letter here.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach just did. He is still doing it.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Government had to bail out hospitals last year.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach may keep on saying that, but nobody outside is listening.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: My cancer policy worked.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: It has not happened.

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: Is that a belated acknowledgement of the progress we made?

Retirement of Head Usher (6 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: Ba mhaith liom i dtús báire mo bhuíochas a ghabháil le Tom McGrath as ucht an tseirbhís atá tugtha aige don Dáil agus don Oireachtas i rith na blianta. Ba mhaith liom freisin comhghairdeas a dhéanamh leis as ucht an méid atá bainte amach aige sa Teach seo. Táimid go léir buíoch de. Tá súil agam go n-éireoidh go...

Retirement of Head Usher (6 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: I would be worried if you were.

Order of Business (6 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: The severe water shortage in Dublin over the last two weeks has highlighted many significant issues and difficulties, but in particular it raises the issue of the wisdom of introducing water charges in late 2014 in the absence of being in a position to guarantee large sections of the population timely access to water. There are increased pressures on the system, in particular demographic...

Order of Business (6 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: People want quality water and a proper service before they are asked to pay for it. In that context, the Water Services Bill, which deals with the establishment of Irish Water, is coming through but the Government has also committed to providing Irish Water with the necessary powers-----

Order of Business (6 Nov 2013)

Micheál Martin: There is legislation on the schedule which seeks to provide Irish Water with the necessary powers to deliver water services, including through service level agreements with local authorities, to define the relationship between Irish Water and local authorities and the economic and environmental regulators, to set out the legal basis for domestic water charges and to extend the water...