Results 17,221-17,240 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the forum on patronage and pluralism in the primary sector as outlined in the programme for Government. [44102/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 421. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if any specific targets were set at the Youth Unemployment Conference in Paris; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50119/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 422. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if any specific actions will be taken here to tackle youth unemployment following the Youth Unemployment Conference held in Paris; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50121/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Unemployment Measures (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 423. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on youth unemployment here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45859/13]
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The figures published by the National Treatment Purchase Fund last Friday show that waiting lists for hospital procedures and treatments have increased by about 18.6% year on year, that is, an increase of about 7,764. The various categories show that the number of people waiting more than three months has increased by 32%, from close to 20,000 up to 26,200; the numbers waiting more than six...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: These are the figures.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The National Treatment Purchase Fund figures published last Friday. There is no argument about these figures. Therefore, let us put the spin to one side.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The outpatient lists are shocking. You undermined repeatedly the National Treatment Purchase Fund by taking the funds from it and putting them into the special delivery unit and the result is that there are far more people on the waiting list.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: This is the total volume of inpatient and day case people waiting for procedures in our hospitals. I did not publish these figures. The National Treatment Purchase Fund published them. Please do not try to undermine them by more spin and trying to camouflage the reality on the ground for children and people who are waiting for badly needed procedures.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that when the Minister, Deputy Reilly, came to office the National Treatment Purchase Fund had clear targets - six months for adults and three months for children. The Minister invents the 12 months target and gets rid of three months and six months and gets away with it for a year by essentially falsifying the message and the presentation of the message.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that it has come through. Some 107 were on the waiting list in December 2012 for nine months and more while the number is now 4,473. That is not my figure, it is the figure from the National Treatment Purchase Fund. There has been a 97% increase in the number of people waiting nine months and more, according to the National Treatment Purchase Fund. The position...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: What is the Taoiseach going to do to change tack, stop all he spin and the presentation, and the undermining of the National Treatment Purchase Fund that has happened in the past two years? The result is that there are more people waiting for longer times than every before.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Order of Business (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I met with a range of small businesses recently which are very concerned about the lack of access to credit, including overdrafts they had previously enjoyed to facilitate cash flow. There are continuing negative reports about such facilities being arbitrarily cut off. Access to credit is still an issue for many SMEs. When can we expect the credit guarantee Bill to be published?
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 14. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to expand market access in the United States of America. [48807/13]
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: I put it to the Tánaiste that the Government's policy on discretionary medical cards is hitting hardest people with disabilities and children with special needs. In a survey, Down Syndrome Ireland, estimated that up to 100 people children with Down's syndrome have lost their discretionary medical cards. Up to half of the children with that syndrome have heart defects, gastrointestinal...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste has not really dealt with the core point of the question. Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which is why I focused on the impact of the Government's policy for children and people in general with disabilities who have lost their discretionary medical cards. The general increase in the number of medical cards is related to the economic position,...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: That child lost a medical card as a result of the Government's policy change. The Minister of State with responsibility for these matters, Deputy Alex White, acknowledged in a reply to a parliamentary question that 10,000 such people have lost their medical cards in 2013 to date. By definition, a discretionary medical card is for people with special needs, multiple conditions or a range of...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Government's policy is hitting these people the hardest. Does the Tánaiste acknowledge and accept that specific point on this, the International Day for People with Disabilities? Will the Government change that policy and approach, intervening to reverse what has been happening in order to restore medical cards to people with chronic and life-threatening conditions who have lost them?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is not a distortion. How dare you?