Results 27,901-27,920 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: Last night on the "Claire Byrne Live" television show, a whistleblower gave her account of how she believed an intellectually disabled child called Grace was left in a foster home, in which she was constantly and consistently abused, until 2009. It is known that this foster home or household to which children were sent for summer respite services was so engaged from 1983 to approximately...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: They were placed there by the South Eastern Health Board, by the Brothers of Charity and by private families. The Government and the Minister have indicated they are to recommend a commission of investigation into this entire scandal. Has the Taoiseach taken legal advice and is he satisfied that a commission of investigation can run in parallel to the Garda investigation that currently is...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: I ask this because it is clear from the proceedings of the Committee of Public Accounts that the Health Service Executive, HSE, is stating it cannot publish the Devine and Resilience Ireland reports because of that selfsame Garda inquiry. The point I make to the Taoiseach is Members must be clear in this House that a robust mechanism is available to have a comprehensive inquiry into this...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: Finally, in respect of any civil cases-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----that may arise, my understanding is the State will not defend them. Has the Government given consideration to a redress scheme or some system of compensation for the families involved? The bottom line is that 47 children or adults - highly vulnerable adults with intellectual disabilities - were left in a home about which many people had huge issues-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----and the whistleblowers are clear that serious abuse was carried out on a number of children in that home.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2016)
Micheál Martin: While I thank the Taoiseach for his reply, my core point is on the capacity of a commission of investigation to credibly carry out its work while the Garda investigation is under way. Presumably, a presiding judge might be highly wary of undermining the Garda inquiry. This was the very basis on which the HSE officials appearing before the Committee of Public Accounts have stated that much...
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I am asking the Taoiseach in all seriousness, having listened to the people involved, if we would defer passage of this Bill until after the general election.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: It was to make it mandatory.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I have no issue with technological universities. It is the mandatory merger I am raising.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I have two issues.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I know but there are 30 minutes.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I had intended to raise two points, which I normally get a chance to do. This could be my last day here, a Cheann Comhairle, in terms of this Dáil.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is a good cue for me to put the question to the Taoiseach. Will he confirm that he will be coming into the House on Tuesday to dissolve the Dáil and go to Áras an Uachtaráin to commence the general election? He might be in a position to confirm that. A Cheann Comhairle, I want the record of the House corrected because last night the Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, spoke...
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: These are not new social housing units, be it transfers from rent allowance-----
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----to the housing assistance payment and so on.
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but it is playing with language. To be honest-----
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: People are fed up with this misuse and abuse of language in terms of trying to camouflage Government achievements when we all know that housing and homelessness-----
- Order of Business (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The position in terms of housing and homelessness-----