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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: For many years, parts of rural Ireland, businesses and homes have been without any broadband connectivity. Back in 2012 when the then Minister, Pat Rabbitte, announced the national broadband plan, he was very clear that there would be a minimum of 30 megabits per second for every remaining home and business in the country, no matter how rural or remote. Every year since, Ministers have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: We do not need to start again.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: British-Irish Agreement (17 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the Good Friday Agreement, and in particular regarding strands 1 and 2 being suspended in their entirety; and if he has spoken with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on same recently. [17817/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: On the outpatient waiting lists, I understand that there are more than 100,000 people waiting over 18 months for an outpatient appointment. When the Taoiseach was the Minister for Health he had a target for this figure to be zero by June 2015. The figure has, however, gone up 800% since the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, came into office in 2016. Will the Taoiseach indicate why this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: The drugs are approved. Are they not already clinically approved?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: The medicines are clinically approved by the respective bodies.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: I believe it is the same. This is the record of the House so I do not think the Taoiseach should make commentary like that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: I do not think I would like it as part of the reason.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: Some of those approved have not been funded.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: The demographics are going up.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: Is that through the treatment purchase fund?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: That was one of the Fianna Fáil policies, of which the Taoiseach says we have none, that he adopted and it is having an effect. The Taoiseach never acknowledges it, he just keeps saying we do not have policies.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: You will.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach have the outpatients waiting list figure?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: Could we ask a brief supplementary on this question?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: He spent six minutes on it. Come on.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: Last week, it was confirmed that the final cost of the children's hospital will be dramatically higher than was predicted or evaluated, that a governance failure is at the heart of the increased costs-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: That is what the PricewaterhouseCoopers report stated.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: The entire report. The Taoiseach should go back to the recommendations.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: It does state that in the recommendations.