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- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer my questions. My fundamental point is that there is inconsistency and incoherence at the heart of the decisions he has taken, particularly yesterday’s decision. A child born today with a rare syndrome will be subject to the framework under which 15,000 lost cards which are now being given back. That child will not get a medical card irrespective of the...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am not talking about the exceptional. This is one of-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is not changing the policy framework. He is only doing this for those who lost the cards before 2011.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: There is total inconsistency.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: What about the cases from 2011?
- Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: I think the Ceann Comhairle underestimates us.
- Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday, the Government’s statement on medical cards referred to interaction with the Attorney General on the Health Act 1970. The director general of the Health Service Executive, HSE, is satisfied the announcement will allow him to return cards to persons with an acute medical condition. The Minister of State, Deputy White, made it clear that legislation would be needed for the...
- Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: The statement mentions the establishment of an expert panel to advise on the broader issue by September. The promise was that there would be legislation before the summer to deal once and for all with medical needs and conditionality in the awarding of discretionary medical cards. Will such legislation be provided? What timeline is the Government offering in the enactment of such...
- Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is not the truth. That is a dishonest response.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Relations (18 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: 30. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way he and his Department are encouraging trade between Ireland and Cuba; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26282/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (18 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance if he and his Department are aware that Bank of Ireland are withdrawing banking services from legitimate Irish businesses that do trade with Cuba; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26283/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (18 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: 38. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank of Ireland has a policy on services that Irish banks provide with legitimate businesses that trade with Cuba; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26284/14]
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday there was an announcement that the HSE's review of maternity services in the west/north west hospitals group was being shelved and would be subsumed into the national maternity services review. The report into the group's maternity services was near finalisation and it was exposed recently as containing alarming recommendations for the downgrading and potential closure of maternity...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: In February the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, announced the national maternity care strategy, but we have still not seen the terms of reference. At this stage, we are entitled to see them because this is a very important issue. Some people working in maternity services argue that they need immediate intervention by the Government to upgrade staffing levels to provide an...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (24 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he is satisfied that his Department has maintained its records in accordance with its legal duties under section 2(2) of the National Archives Act 1986. [8923/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (24 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Within weeks of entering office, the Taoiseach had begun to engage in a process of playing low partisan politics on the banking issue, particularly the banking inquiry. He came into the House and threw out snide comments that files might have disappeared or been shredded and that nothing could be found. I have since been doing what he perhaps did not do - checking the facts. A freedom of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (24 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Again, the Taoiseach has been and is still being very selective. There are some very consequential documents in this, such as Government memos. There is a full list there - well over 150 at this stage - of documents obtained under the freedom of information provisions, which proves there are records in the Taoiseach's Department. The Taoiseach said records had been disappeared. He used the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (24 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is what the Taoiseach did. He should withdraw the term "shredded".
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (24 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Harris obviously has a different view from what he just said. He should withdraw that too. It is not on that the Taoiseach should persist in this -----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (24 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: There are records, very substantial records, in the Taoiseach's Department and the reply from the Secretary General is very clear. Martin Fraser's letter stated:As I said in my letter of November 22nd, documentation relating to the bank guarantee is held in this Department. That documentation was listed in the Schedule provided under the Freedom of Information Act, a copy of which I enclose...