Results 27,461-27,480 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: I welcome that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: International Terrorism (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the status of discussions at European Union Council level on tackling radicalism and terrorism outside the European Union's borders, as per the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13102/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: International Terrorism (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. It is fair to say there is no doubt we are in middle of an age where severe threats are posed by extreme ideologies to all. The greatest victims of these ideologies are the people who belong to and live in the communities for whom groups like ISIS claim to speak. The people of Syria and Iraq are bearing the brunt of ISIS's barbarism. That is the bottom...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Of course, the Leader of the Seanad was a determined and committed advocate of its abolition; therefore, I will not hold my breath in terms of his new zeal to reform the House. However, it is not a matter for the Seanad alone; it is a matter for the entire Oireachtas but this House, in particular, because legislation would have to be passed. I would like the Taoiseach to clarify, as he said...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Oireachtas includes the Dáil and the Seanad.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach his role in relation to the commitment in the programme for Government to reform Seanad Éireann by implementing the Manning report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13101/16]
- Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The programme for Government contains commitments on home help hours and packages for carers. Information released to Fianna Fáil has revealed that the average processing time of applications for carer's benefit and carer's allowance is over 18 weeks and that the appeals process can take a further 23 weeks. This means that carers may have to wait for more than nine months before they...
- Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is a fair point by Deputy Howlin.
- Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is not every day that the Deputy gets this far.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: I earnestly say to the Taoiseach that he should scrap all of that stuff that they gave him.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Go and talk to Deputy Finian McGrath and a few others and stop just making announcements and all of that.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Let us get some real actions on therapies in the next year or so.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Never.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: That has nothing to do with what I have asked. It will do nothing in terms of therapies.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: It will not do anything for therapists.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that we need a fundamental step change in how we provide basic therapy services to children of preschool and school-going age. What has been going on over the past number of years is just not on. The system does not get it. Parents are extremely frustrated at what is going on in terms of getting basic access to vital therapy services because early intervention is the key...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach accept that it is a crisis and that the current model being deployed is wrong?
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is a very honest satisfactory reply but it is depressing because the Taoiseach answered a whole lot of matters except the question I asked him. I asked him directly about therapists. We need a step change regarding therapists in this country. I did not ask about special needs assistants. That scheme started in 1998 and thousands were employed ever since and there will be annual...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: I want to raise with the Taoiseach the appalling waiting times and waiting lists for children who wish to access therapy services such as speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy. Children from the earliest age do not have access to such therapists. That is the reality of where we are today. For example, Deputies Cowen and Fleming highlighted recently that in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when he established, or will establish, the Cabinet committee on justice reform. [12874/16]