Results 28,261-28,280 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but it will be the same points for Nos. 3 to 6, inclusive. It is unacceptable the Taoiseach is ramming all of this legislation, four Bills, through in the one day, along with a Private Members’ Bill and other business of the House. It makes a mockery of the House. It demeans the House and illustrates the ongoing lack of any respect the Executive has for Dáil...
- Order of Business (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: No. These are new proposals.
- Order of Business (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am not playing games.
- Order of Business (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: Friday sittings with only ten members in the Chamber.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----because the Taoiseach knows what is proposed is essential and should be included in the plan.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will he now commit to its inclusion in the capital plan in respect of health? What I said earlier is correct. If he looks through the national capital plan-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----there is a distinct discrimination against the regions in terms of the allocation of funding for those projects.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: There are precious few health projects for the western seaboard, including the north west and south west. The Taoiseach should look at this; he will be surprised by it.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: I invested heavily in Galway.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government is not even allowing it to go to design.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach closed Roscommon hospital so people have to go into Galway, which cannot cope.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: All they want is to go to design stage and the Taoiseach has refused.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: They said they sent the design proposal to the Government, which sent it back. How many more times do I have to say it?
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: Last Wednesday evening I visited University Hospital Galway where I was briefed comprehensively by representatives of the Saolta group and authorities in the hospital on the enormous challenges facing staff and the pressures under which they were operating and, in particular, the situation in the emergency department. After the briefing they brought me to see the emergency department at...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: More than 250 people a day, on average, attend the emergency department which works out at approximately 62,000 a year, but it was built to cater for 100 a day. The situation in the paediatric department was shocking. There were two bays in the corner of a room, children were on the ground crying, parents cramped together and there was no capacity to deal with infection control. I met the...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: The hospital has a solution to this problem which it has put to the Government. Fundamentally, it has stated to the Government that it has sought approval to progress to design stage for a replacement emergency department and shell accommodation to replace the existing maternity unit, a 1950s building, but incredibly the Government has not included the project in its health capital...
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: Particularly since it is now the tertiary hospital for the west and north west, as the Taoiseach knows, and the numbers are increasing on an ongoing basis-----
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----the very minimum required is a commitment to replace the emergency department.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Dec 2015)
Micheál Martin: All of the projects so far in the health sector have been in Dublin. There is very little being provided outside Dublin in the rest of the country in the health arena.