Results 27,201-27,220 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin

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-----

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: -----and be in the vanguard of new technologies. I apologise, a Cheann Comhairle, and I thank you.

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: On 19 October last, I raised the need to give access to the Orkambi drug to cystic fibrosis, CF, patients. I pointed out that we have the highest number of people per head of population with cystic fibrosis. We should be in the vanguard in terms of research and new drug technologies. Since I last raised this matter, I met Jillian McNulty who has CF and who has been on Orkambi for three...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reform (30 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: 157. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to continue the process of dismantling the HSE and evolving it into a health commission in view of the programme for Government commitment in this regard. [34869/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: Is Deputy Canney passing on the baton in February?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: Could the Taoiseach outline the specific staffing resources assigned purely to managing relations between Fine Gael and the other Government Deputies? Could he send it on to me if he does not have it at his disposal, as well as the individual arrangements pertaining to the Independent Ministers and Ministers of State?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: Arising from that, what is the arrangement for the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, and the incoming Minister of State, Deputy Moran?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (29 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: He is to become Minister of State in February. They tossed a coin as to who would get the first attempt at being Minister of State.