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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospitals Funding (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I again raise the issue of the plans to extend and build a new children's unit in Cork University Hospital, CUH. The Minister of State will be familiar with this but I must articulate my extreme concern at the lack of transparency and honesty in answering clearly whether there is a specific budget for this project and a meaningful timeline for its planning and extension. The Minister of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: It is all my fault.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I supported it. The Taoiseach did not do his homework.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I did.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: No, I was not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: No. I got a phone call two days before polling day when the die had already been cast.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not approach us at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not approach us on this at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I voted for it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I voted for it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: His appointment of Senator Buttimer as director of elections was his most inspired in many years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: It was most inspired.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I voted for it; the Taoiseach made a bags of it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I will pass the Taoiseach's good wishes on to Deputy Collins.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has been against it since day one. He should state that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: We have given our views. We have had an Oireachtas committee.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should take the honest position and admit that he has no interest in pursuing Seanad reform within the context and parameters of the Manning report and the work of Senator McDowell, who feels that he has been hung out to dry by the Government's, and Fine Gael's, approach to this issue. The honest thing to do would be to say that the Government is not committed and has no...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: It was very late-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (11 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: No, I did not ask that. The Taoiseach knows I did not ask that.