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- Questions on Proposed Legislation (19 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is not the question.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (19 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is €35 million versus €15 million.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (19 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: The programme for Government is very explicit about mental health. It states that the Government intends to fully implement A Vision for Change and that it will base health expenditure on multi-year budgeting supported by a five year HSE service plan based on realistic, verifiable projections. At Question Time yesterday, Deputy Brown asked the Minister of State at the Department of Health...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (19 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: I just want another 60 seconds.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (19 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: I know.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (19 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: I know well. We will say no more.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (19 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is sending out falsehoods to people in the mental health arena. I have been hearing this €35 million figure for the past three or four years and it never materialises. We were told in the small print yesterday that it is €15 million. The Government is selling people in the mental health community short. It is time for less rhetoric and more honesty and realistic...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is essential.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is a life and death issue and it is a fundamental imperative that we do everything we possibly can to improve the quality of life and extend the life of those with CF. There is no doubting the health benefits to be derived from Orkambi. In the assessment it was rejected "at submitted cost"; in other words, it was regarded as too expensive. The benefits are well reported not just by...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: Cystic fibrosis, CF, is a very debilitating condition. Ireland has the largest cohort per capitaof population of people with CF. Consistent research has helped improve the quality of life and extend the lives of people with CF. Given that we have the largest cohort per capitaof population of people with CF, there is an onus on this country to be in the vanguard in terms of research and new...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (18 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: I concur with the Deputy that this is without question the most significant challenge to face the country in many a day because the impact will not be transient but long term. I hear from the Taoiseach’s reply that there is a close relationship with the British Government but I have to question to what degree there is close engagement between the two Governments because of what is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (18 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the way he and his Government plan to make Northern Ireland a special case in the context of Brexit; if he has discussed or written to Prime Minister May in relation to the plan; and if discussions have taken place with the Secretary of State in Northern Ireland. [30528/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (18 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the detail of any formal contacts he has had with the First Minister of Northern Ireland, Ms Arlene Foster, regarding the Government's proposed all-island civic forum on Brexit. [30751/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet committee on arts, Irish and the Gaeltacht has been established and has met. [28623/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach stated that the arts committee was established on 8 June
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: Its first meeting was on 30 October.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: I had thought he said on 30 October. We are not there yet, how could that be?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is the early influenza. Need I say more? This is an appalling indictment of the Government's commitment to arts policy that its first meeting was this week and it has not met since June. There are enormous issues to be covered by the arts committee. We had an earlier debate about the sense of marginalisation of the arts community in the reconstruction and reconfiguration of the...
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order-----
- Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)
Micheál Martin: We have a motion to put down.