Results 24,601-24,620 of 50,683 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: What is the status of the commitment in the programme for Government to produce a national rare diseases plan? The situation is becoming critical for people with rare diseases as the Taoiseach will be aware in terms of children and adults with PKU, for example, who are awaiting ratification of the drug Kuvan, which can have a very significant impact for people with PKU. The negotiations...

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: I have talked to medics about those who could benefit from the application of Kuvan but are not getting it.

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: I appreciate that, a Cheann Comhairle.

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: Kuvan-----

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: It makes no sense. There must be far greater urgency and a sense of getting to grips with this. In the 1930s, 1960s and 1970s, this country was in a position to build far more houses far more quickly to take people out of tenements and house them.

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: These figures represent a damning indictment of the capacity of the Government and the State to make meaningful inroads and resolve this crisis. Even on the figures the Taoiseach is announcing, it is going at a snail's pace.

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: Nothing is progressing, unfortunately.

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: No, the local authorities.

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: Fine Gael is in government for seven years.

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: The figures covered both approved housing bodies and local authorities. Even the figures the Taoiseach mentioned of 2,000 this year and 3,000 will go nowhere near dealing with the crisis. We all have families coming to us every week in dire situations. I have a family of a mother and three children living in a hotel in Cork who have been on the city housing list for ten years. To get a...

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: We are in the midst of a housing crisis at all levels, with issues including homelessness, the cost of renting and the inability to get a council house or to buy an affordable house. The capacity of the Government to deal with the enormity of this crisis is again being called into question with the revelations in an article in The Irish Timestoday outlining the extremely poor performance in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: There are no great outcomes from Brexit.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with President Macron; the people who attended the meeting; the issues that were discussed; and if he met other groups while he was in Paris. [46343/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with President Macron and if the President outlined the EU reforms that are his priority. [46344/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 14. To ask the Taoiseach whether President Macron said he would support Ireland's priorities in the context of the Brexit negotiations. [46346/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: It is good that the Taoiseach met the President of France. 4 o’clock We have had strong relationship with France over the years, particularly in terms of the CAP, although France has always had an envious eye on our corporate tax rates and has made interventions that have periodically reached varying degrees of intensity. It seems we are now back in a phase where President Macron...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: For the past six years we have been told relations with the British Government have been excellent, yet every bilateral issue falls into neglect or some form of crisis. It is fair to say that previous to 2011 it would have been inconceivable that any Taoiseach or Prime Minister of any party would have taken such a hands off approach to the vital issues, particularly on the Good Friday...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: I am aware of the petition of concern. Let it flow and let it happen. Times are changing. Let the assembly meet and adjudicate on the issue. Likewise, I do not see any great barrier to the language Act. I am not aware of any great impediment to the establishment of an Irish language Act at this particular stage. If we are to have special arrangements in the context of Brexit there would...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to Prime Minister, Mrs. May, since the Secretary of State, Mr. Brokenshire, made his comments regarding possible direct rule of Northern Ireland on and after 30 October 2017. [45040/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on contact made by the Prime Minister, Mrs. May, to discuss the Brexit impasse prior to the European Council meeting; and the issues that were discussed and his response to each. [44679/17]