Results 17,201-17,220 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he had any bilaterals at the EU Council meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46203/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 30. To ask the Taoiseach the topics discussed at his meeting with the Italian Minister Enrico Letta; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48812/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 31. To ask the Taoiseach if he had any bilateral meetings while attending the Youth Unemployment Conference in Paris; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50118/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 32. To ask the Taoiseach if he will detail his contribution at the Youth Conference in Paris; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50120/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 33. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the option of a safety net post the exit from the EU-IMF programme with Chancellor Merkel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50148/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 34. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the option of a safety net post the exit from the EU-IMF bailout with Prime Minister Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50149/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 35. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the option of a safety net post the exit form the EU-IMF programme with President Hollande when he was in Paris recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50150/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 38. To ask the Taoiseach if the EU growth figures were discussed at the recent EU leaders' meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50292/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I have 15 questions out of the 38. I appreciate that they are all related. I do not have a difficulty with the fact that there are 38 questions being answered at once, that is fair enough but I hope the Taoiseach will bear with me as I ask-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am for it. I accept it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I only say as much as a preamble and because there may be several questions covering the 15 in my name. That is all.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Central Bank Governor, Professor Patrick Honohan, has stated clearly that further capital injections will be required for our banks. A report at the weekend said the Government may give up a substantial part of its return from Bank of Ireland to increase its capital base. Whether we get a lower return than expected remains to be determined because of the necessity to make capital...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: It would not have to do with the British-Irish Council.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I welcome the fact the Taoiseach has such contact with so many people.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I wish he had much more contact with many medical card holders who have lost their medical cards because he would then have a far greater grasp of that reality but that is a separate matter for a different forum. However, the failure of the Government to grasp the reality of people losing their discretionary medical cards on a continual basis is something I cannot comprehend. The Taoiseach...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: It could have been Castlebar Mitchels.
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: As the Taoiseach knows, the medical card situation is creating grave anxiety across the country. Approximately 40,000 medical cards were taken out of the system last year. Some 10,000 of them were discretionary medical cards. We know that the passing of the Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013 will lead to 35,000 medical cards being taken from people over the...
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach provide Government time for this House to debate the health service plan? Deputies should have reasonable time to make an input into the health service plan. There is acute anxiety among the public in relation to health matters generally. When can we expect the Bill providing for the dismantling of the HSE to be brought to the House?
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: What about the Bill?
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: He can only appeal on the basis of income threshold under separate criteria.