Results 27,601-27,620 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach's response is unsatisfactory because it does not cut to the core of the question I asked about the under-resourcing of our maternity and obstetric services. My understanding is that maternity services received just €3 million in additional funding in 2016. I always said that last year's budget was a false and fraudulent one in terms of public figures. Adequate...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the implementation of the Stormont House Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13105/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 140. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his departmental officials will have any role in formulating the public sector pay commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13109/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Implementation (1 Jun 2016)
Micheál Martin: 159. To ask the Minister for Health why he appointed a Minister with responsibility for drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13107/16]
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach indicate when we can expect publication of the Government's legislative programme outlining its legislative priorities? In that context, I note the programme for Government contains a commitment to introduce a health levy on sugar sweetened drinks. Will the Taoiseach indicate when that will be introduced? The Taoiseach said it would be good to have a ring-fenced fund but...
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach provide a list of those Bills?
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is a very belated rationale for guillotines. It took five years to think that up.
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is saying the list will be a re-list.
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: We did not realise this for the past five years. We thought the Bills were coming.
- Order of Business (31 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: Next Wednesday?
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is no way to treat the Opposition.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is exactly what is happening. Patients who are waiting for this medication cannot get it in hospitals. The clinicians are clear.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: Any oncologist to whom I have spoken has been very clear about the efficacy of these drugs. The pharmacoeconomics unit which normally makes its determinations after weighing up cost-benefit analyses and survival rates made its decision in February. People were waiting for the HSE committee which was not due to meet until June to decide.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: This is not the first time this has happened. There is a significant hiatus between the decisions of the pharmacoeconomics unit and those of the group of HSE officials. In no way is it good enough. What group of officials will second-guess the formal process of evaluation that has already taken place? Greece which is more fiscally challenged than Ireland has these drugs in operation and...
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: It can be.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: I want to raise the unacceptable situation regarding the approval of life-saving drugs. This has come into the public domain again in the past week, in particular in the case of three drugs, namely, Pembro, Nivo and Ibrutinib. Pembro has had an astonishing impact in the treatment of melanomas and the prospects for its impact on lung and kidney cancer are also exciting, something to which...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: Will he commission that report? Finally, regarding the arts, the Taoiseach had a very good engagement with the artistic community, as he articulated earlier. Did he at any time during his trip to the United States reflect on the absence of a real focus on the arts in Ireland? The artistic community feels very neglected, and the Taoiseach's attendance at and the strength of the event in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: I asked whether the Taoiseach would commission the report.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: The implications.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: We have a fair idea.