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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-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: -----in our acute hospitals.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: What does the Government intend to do about that specific and very important issue that affects the quality of care of patients?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: We have too many non-permanent people.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: We have too many specialists.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: They could be unqualified doctors.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: That is because we have too many who are unqualified.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach might explain why he did not answer the question. I very specifically focused on the issue of recruitment and retention of qualified consultants. I pointed out that there is a crisis in recruiting consultants because of a pay differential - the discriminatory pay difference between those recruited after 2012 and those before 2012 - and the Taoiseach chose not to answer the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: The situation in our health service continues to disimprove with up to one million people on outpatient and inpatient waiting lists and severe overcrowding in our accident and emergency departments on a consistent basis. We learned today that more than 6,000 people who are waiting for elderly care services could be waiting for up to two years. These are just a number of the issues, all of...