Results 27,481-27,500 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: I welcome the re-establishment of the Cabinet committee on justice reform. The lack of action and inertia within government and the system in general in the past while have been somewhat disturbing. I met representatives of a north inner city group approximately one month ago in the context of the appalling gangland crime in the area. Much of the conversation and discussion focused on the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Why has it taken so long?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Garda apparently alerted people to this issue a long time ago.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Having an action plan for emergency departments by the end of the year. Let me refer to the restoration of the National Treatment Purchase Fund which I initiated back in 2002. Over a sustained period it brought down inpatient waiting lists for adults to six months and for children down to three months. It was, however, more than a matter of the allocation of funding which was obviously...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: There is a need for the Cabinet sub-committee on health to engage with enterprise and the Department of Finance to bring about a coherent policy on pharmaceuticals, both from a pricing perspective and the perspective of attracting inward investment. No one knows where we stand on this issue. The recent developments in the use of Pembro and new cancer drugs were unacceptable. The new...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet sub-committee on health has met. [14453/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: I put it to the Taoiseach that the previous Government's Cabinet sub-committee on health was in many ways a place to which policies or initiatives were sent in order to avoid any action. The clear evidence of this was its one publication, the White Paper on health insurance, the status of which is unknown. Will the Taoiseach clarify whether that White Paper remains official policy or...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: We have been very clear as a political party that the housing and homelessness emergency is the No. 1 priority which must be addressed by this Oireachtas. Hence, I support strongly and pay tribute to the special committee on housing which was chaired by Deputy John Curran and which is completing its work this week. It will present its work on Friday. What we have here is an inclusive, a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet sub-committee on housing has met. [14452/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Fifteen minutes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: This is new.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach reply to all of us who tabled questions together?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: No. I do not think that will work.
- Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, Macroom is in County Cork.
- Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to the establishment of a public sector pay commission to review public pay, with an emphasis particularly on lower paid public servants. There has been much angst about young teachers, young gardaí and young health personnel on low levels of remuneration. Will the Taoiseach confirm when the commission will be established? Will the...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: Someone pocketed €7 million.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The offshore account.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The offshore account and the money paid in fixers' fees.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: There was only one bidder.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: A consistent thread in the Taoiseach's replies to various people on this question during the last Dáil and this one is that there has been no wrongdoing on NAMA's behalf.