Results 23,081-23,100 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that this House and the Minister for Health committed to this two years ago. It is time to get this sorted on a compassionate basis for the sake of the many patients and their families who need this medicine. We should not be forcing families to travel to Holland and elsewhere every three months to access it.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (7 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: 43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or officials on his behalf were in contact with President Erdogan of Turkey following the murder of a person (details supplied). [45883/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: What is striking about the Government's response to the interview given by Mr. Tony O'Brien to The Sunday Business Postlast weekend is how it has tried to focus on one personal comment about the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, and ignored everything else said in the interview, particularly about health policy. We have all noticed how there has not been any credible attempt to deny the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: We have never not been forthcoming.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: Can I get an answer about broadband?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach knows damn well what the question was. When did he find out about it becoming a multiple of the cost?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: Is that all?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is not being up-front or transparent with people.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach explained that the economic division has a central role in the oversight of infrastructural development and supports the relevant Cabinet sub-committees. A number of weeks ago, the Taoiseach announced that broadband provision will be a personal crusade. I do not understand why it has not been thus all along and has only now become a personal crusade, after the Deputy Naughten...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: One of the major problems in the Brexit negotiations is the central role megaphone diplomacy seems to be playing. It is never constructive when leaks and tweets play a major part, yet it seems that both Governments are at it nearly every day. The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, Dominic Raab, MP, appears to believe tendentious leaks and hardline statements help. Equally,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The programme for Government states: "We want Ireland's image as the green island to inform all areas of policy so that the global image of our country is transformed and we are recognised as one of the cleanest and safest environments in the world." That commitment is a far cry from reports we have all read about what has happened in the context of the reconstruction of Dún Laoghaire...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: Is the Minister aware of the matter?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The reality is that the small number of beds promised for 2018 were simply not delivered by the Government. The modular unit in Clonmel has been promised for over two years, if not longer, but it still has not been delivered. Yesterday the Minister for Health could not give specifics for additional bed capacity in 2019. He used the phrase "early in 2019." To be fair, the Taoiseach's...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is in the Government's own document.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has been in government for eight years. He needs to go and do it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: Why was it not possible?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: By the end of this year, we could witness over 100,000 people having been on trolleys during 2018. So far this year, more than 10,000 people aged over 75 have been waiting for more than 24 hours in our accident and emergency departments and we have lost approximately 136,000 bed days through delayed discharges. That is only in the first ten months of the year. We know the extraordinary...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: 109. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his discussion with the Japanese Prime Minister, Mr. Shinzo Abe, when they met in Brussels on 18 October 2018. [44651/18]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: North-South Implementation Bodies (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: 134. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the allocation in 2019 to North-South bodies in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45894/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: North-South Implementation Bodies (6 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: 138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the allocation in 2019 to North-South bodies in his Department. [45903/18]