Results 27,941-27,960 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: For five years, I have been asking for these Acts periodically. Up to approximately three months ago, the Taoiseach kept saying there were delays but they were coming. Only in the past three months has the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, ditched the entire chapter on universal health insurance. Will the Taoiseach confirm that he misled the people on it five years ago and that it has...
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: No research or homework was put into the universal health insurance project.
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: We were told it would happen. The pathways are detailed on the fifth page, starting with the enactment of the legislative basis for UHI. It did not happen, and I do not know why. Maybe the Taoiseach can give some indication. Can he confirm that it is unlikely to happen, given that we are, potentially, in the last week of the Dáil? The Taoiseach attempted to introduce self...
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: If all our schools had a similar pattern of self assessment, it would reduce our education system to ridicule. I have a far greater understanding of teachers' concerns about self assessment, given the Taoiseach and Tánaiste's self assessments. Can the Taoiseach indicate how the report of the banking inquiry will be laid before the House and the arrangements for statements?
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I always like to facilitate the Chief Whip in briefing the Taoiseach.
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: He is a decent guy. Regarding taxation-----
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate it. I am nearly finished. Can the Taoiseach clarify when the taxation and certain other matters (international mutual assistance) Bill will be published and whether it will allow for an extension of the maximum period of four years over which a taxpayer can reclaim any amounts he or she has overpaid to the Revenue?
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is hardly credible that the Taoiseach would say that.
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: They have ditched those Bills too.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: So the Taoiseach is not seeking it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: It was €8.9 billion. The Department of Finance stated it was €8.9 billion.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is getting ready for the manifesto.
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Potentially, we are heading into perhaps the last week of this House. The date has been in the Taoiseach's head for quite a long time. I merely want to commend the Taoiseach and the Government on their capacity for self-assessment. The prospect of the chapter in the programme for Government dealing with fairness, in particular, in dealing with the health service, will rank as probably the...
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Five years ago, the following was stated in the programme for Government:This Government will introduce Universal Health Insurance with equal access to care for all. Under this system there will be no discrimination between patients on the grounds of income or insurance status. The two-tier system of unequal access to hospital care will end. The Universal Health Insurance system will be...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: In Question No. 9 I asked the Taoiseach whether he had spoken to Chancellor Merkel at the European Council meeting and whether he had discussed retrospective debt forgiveness for Ireland with her or with any other European leader. He said he did not. In his reply, he is now saying that the investment in AIB and Bank of Ireland and so on, which the previous Government made, was effective....
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: They were always there. What I am speaking about is separate from those.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: That was always the case.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: No, that is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: AIB and Bank of Ireland were always going to be realised. I am talking about the debt outside of that.