Results 21,521-21,540 of 50,453 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: The Chief Medical Officer did not recommend it. The Minister should show me the note.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: The Minister should show me anybody in the CervicalCheck team who recommended it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: The CervicalCheck team is appalled by the decision.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: Many people in the programme are. The only reason they are worried is out of concern for the programme. They believe the programme has been damaged. I agree with the Taoiseach it has been very effective but this decision damaged it. We should learn lessons from it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: Today we learned that the CervicalCheck screening service has a backlog of approximately 78,000 slides to examine and that it is taking up to 27 weeks to provide reports on those tests. It is taking laboratories an average of 93 days to report on smear checks. Ms Anne O'Connor, the interim director general of the HSE, stated to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health this morning that...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: The core lesson that should be learned is that politics does not make for good clinical decision making. It is a very worrying development that a gynaecologist has stated that tests have expired and that a diagnosis has been made in the case of a woman whose test results were delayed. The laboratories have written to the Minister to state that they cannot sustain this level of testing. ...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: At the meeting of the health committee this morning, Deputy Donnelly asked whether it would be introduced in 2019. The witnesses were unable to provide any commitment or date in that regard. The fundamental point is that €10 million was spent on the free test. There was no clinical rationale for it at all. The Minister said the assistant secretary and the Chief Medical Officer did...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Staff Data (13 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: 168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are climate change experts in his Department. [7056/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: We heard yesterday that only 50% of businesses are prepared.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: I know that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Ellis should respect the Chair.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: And a referendum in Venezuela.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Ellis cannot be supporting the dictator there.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: It is 45 days until the UK is due to leave the EU, according to the current legal situation in both the UK and the EU. In order for this to change, something has to be both agreed and ratified before then. In terms of our domestic preparations, we are likely to be the last country in the EU to have enacted legislation to cater for a no-deal scenario. Given we are likely to be the worst...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: He cannot, on one hand, say we need a deal in order to keep the Border operating as it does and then refuse to say what will happen. We know he is not contemplating or planning anything but this is no help to Border communities and businesses, which are deeply concerned about what they might face in 25 days' time. The Taoiseach might indicate whether it is his view we are heading into...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: I think they voted for the Government on some key occasions in the past. I was obviously intrigued by that because they tend to make loud noises from time to time, particularly in respect of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, while at other times, they are quite acquiescent. The Taoiseach said the last time that Deputy Harty was the contact point for them.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach serious?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: If those guys are that naïve and gullible, that is their problem.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the EU leaders since the votes were taken on 29 January 2019 in the House of Commons. [5330/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)
Micheál Martin: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will be travelling to EU capitals in February 2019 to discuss Brexit. [5681/19]