Results 26,661-26,680 of 50,772 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
Micheál Martin: You have decentralised nothing.
- Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
Micheál Martin: But the Minister has done so.
- Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
Micheál Martin: Is that an endorsement of the policy of the Minister, Deputy Varadkar?
- Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)
Micheál Martin: In the chapter in the programme for Government dealing with improving the lives of people with disabilities, I am struck by the number of reviews proposed. They focus on enabling people with disabilities to live independent lives, providing greater independence in accessing the services they choose and placing them in a stronger position to tailor supports to meet their needs and plan their...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2016)
Micheál Martin: They are living in a parallel universe, in which rules apply to one group but not to anyone else. I put it to the Taoiseach that it is unacceptable.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2016)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I want to refer him to comments made by Austin Stack recently. He said:Gerry Adams brought us in a blacked out van to see an IRA leader who he said he trusted and was a friend. Adams told us and reaffirmed this in the media last week that he asked this IRA leader to carry out an investigation. An investigation was carried out internally. Mr. Stack went...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2016)
Micheál Martin: In March 1983 the chief prison officer at Portlaoise Prison, Mr. Brian Stack, was shot in the back of the neck. He was the only prison officer in the Republic of Ireland to be murdered during the Troubles by the Provisional IRA. He died in September 1984 as a result of his injuries. It has been revealed that the leader of Sinn Féin, Deputy Gerry Adams, wrote to the Garda Commissioner...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Communications (6 Dec 2016)
Micheál Martin: 76. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has a policy regarding the use of an e-mail provider (details supplied) in view of his comments over the weekend of 26 and 27 November 2016 regarding same. [38366/16]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Communications (6 Dec 2016)
Micheál Martin: 77. To ask the Taoiseach if he or his Department will continue to use an e-mail provider (details supplied) for non-urgent Government business. [38367/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Remembrance Commission (6 Dec 2016)
Micheál Martin: 98. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received communication from persons (details supplied) requesting that she consider reopening the Remembrance Commission to allow it to consider the murder of a person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38772/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (6 Dec 2016)
Micheál Martin: 267. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the different set of circumstances that the Labour Court recommendation on Garda pay has created for expenditure but also for limiting the pay improvements in 2017 to €290 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38364/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (6 Dec 2016)
Micheál Martin: 268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he or his Department are considering bringing forward the €1,000 State employee payment as reported in a newspaper (details supplied) on 28 November 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38365/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (6 Dec 2016)
Micheál Martin: 354. To ask the Minister for Health if allegations are being independently investigated regarding reports from a whistleblower concerning patients' deaths in the Mid Western Regional Hospital in Limerick (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38644/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Protected Disclosures (6 Dec 2016)
Micheál Martin: 355. To ask the Minister for Health if he and his Department are assured that protections for whistleblowers are in place to prevent isolation and harassment of them after they make allegations in the workplace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38645/16]
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: The programme for Government contains a commitment to "establish an independent patient advocacy service", clarifies that the Government considers "Open Disclosure as an essential component of patient safety" and refers to "the recommendations of the Madden Commission on Patient Safety". The Minister may have seen the reports about a whistleblower in Limerick who has made serious allegations...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: There is a long paragraph on the establishment of the service in the programme for Government, but that might not mean anything.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: One must be careful with the evidence.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: I do not accept the Minister's response in its entirety. Up to very recently the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform demanded the right to sanction any new drugs and the Minister for Health had to go before the Cabinet. That was the position. I know that to be the case up to very recently, even up to the time the new cancer drug pembro came along. Professor Stuart Elborn has...
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: We should be under no illusion that the leak last Sunday was to send a message that this was not going to happen. That is what the leak to The Sunday Business Postwas about.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: The decision was taken. That is why it was leaked. We need to reverse that and get to the front line-----