Results 18,621-18,640 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Too much playing around with the figures is going on. I quoted from official sources - the HSE performance report of January 2011 and Parliamentary Question No. 540 of 10 June 2014. The number of discretionary medical cards reduced from 80,000 to 50,000, which means 30,000 cards were taken back. Will those who lost their medical cards also receive a refund because clearly by restoring them...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am talking about the difference between 50,000 cards and 80,000 cards.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but 30,000 cards were taken away.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: No, I am not. That is a myth.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: A total of 30,000 cards were taken back.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: This has been the case for the past two years.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: It was Deputy Dooley who made the comment.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: You should have put Deputy Paul Kehoe on it.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Has the Taoiseach finished tunnelling?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding his meeting with the OECD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8921/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Eight questions in total have been linked to the Taoiseach's visit to the OECD in Paris. I put it to the Taoiseach that right now, there is something close to panic in Europe about the threat of deflation and its potential dramatic impact on growth. What is somewhat incredible is I have yet to hear from the Taoiseach a single word on the threat the impact of deflation across Europe...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: I asked about the action plan for jobs.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: I apologise. My first question was to do with the deflation threat to the Irish economy. There is panic across Europe about the threat of deflation-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----but the Taoiseach has not made a statement about it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is rare praise.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach have any comment on that?
- Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: The programme for Government has a section dealing with political reform and the Government indicates "we will legislate on the issue of cabinet confidentiality". The Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Act 2013 has a provision at section 86 precluding an Oireachtas committee from seeking evidence about Cabinet decisions and discussions. Some may say this is in...
- Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: I asked this before and the Taoiseach stated he would come back to me. He was not quite sure how it ended up in the programme for Government but it is there and it is a promise to legislate. When can we expect universal primary care legislation? With the discretionary medical card decision, there was a promise, even as late as today, that the 1970 health care legislation would be an...
- Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is in the programme for Government.
- Order of Business (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, to deal finally with the matter of Cabinet confidentiality-----