Results 22,281-22,300 of 50,453 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (24 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: 99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Northern Ireland Executive will be reconvened by March 2019. [43890/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Medical Inquiries (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: I do not actually. The Taoiseach said the same one day last week and again the following day.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Medical Inquiries (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is the opposite opinion in relation to the former Minister, Deputy Naughten.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Medical Inquiries (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: No.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Medical Inquiries (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: That is why the former Minister, Deputy Naughten, resigned.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Medical Inquiries (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: It was you who asked him to resign, having told me the day before that it was out of order.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Medical Inquiries (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach cannot try to reduce the significance of this by saying it is just one item from the report. It was a key issue. The Minister for Health had agreed in the Dáil to a commission of inquiry. He came under pressure in the House and for whatever reason capitulated on that evening and said there would be a commission of inquiry. The Taoiseach followed suit. It was...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Medical Inquiries (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: I asked for the name of the official who is investigating.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Medical Inquiries (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: I asked a very basic question. Can the Taoiseach give the Dáil the information? Who is leading this investigation? The Taoiseach said it was a disgusting investigation. Is he incapable of telling us who the senior official is?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Medical Inquiries (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: Yes, it was a disgusting leak.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: While the strategic communications unit may be gone, it is striking how its spirit continues through the obsession with a certain type of marketing presentation and branding. Instead of seeing modern communications, what we are seeing is very traditional old-style marketing. It may use new platforms but there is nothing modern about the focus on selling messages rather than engaging with...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Medical Inquiries (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he has concerns regarding Government leaks, particularly regarding the Scally inquiry. [37671/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Medical Inquiries (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: When someone in government decided to leak and spin the Scally report, the Taoiseach said at the time he was disgusted by it, and he condemned in very clear terms what had happened. The question remains whether he was sincere in this or whether he is just scared to find a culprit because the culprit could be very much part of a near-permanent obsession with spin in the Taoiseach's...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Information Service (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff employed in the Government Information Service. [37670/18]
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: People are going into pharmacies in the Netherlands.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: We are getting an inhumane response.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: On 10 February 2017, the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, announced that a compassionate access scheme for medicinal cannabis-based treatment would be established, and he published the Health Products Regulatory Authority's, HPRA, report, Cannabis for Medical Use - A Scientific Review. He also announced he had decided to establish a compassionate access programme. The Dáil has been...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: In 2005, more than half the posts advertised received between zero and two applications. That increased to 60% in 2016. In Waterford, of 40 approved-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----consultant posts, 36 are in place, but 20 of these are filled on a non-permanent basis. In Letterkenny 12 out of 18 are non-permanent.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach must accept and acknowledge there is a real problem in recruiting and retaining staff-----