Results 28,401-28,420 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: We need honesty in the debate about health and services. There is a medical manpower crisis. If one speaks to doctors, nurses and acute health care staff, one finds that they are under enormous pressure. What the Government is doing with the health budget is fraudulent and false.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is pretending enough money has been provided when he knows in his heart there is not enough money available. He will use language to camouflage this and get the Government over the next five or six weeks.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: What will happen in the rest of the year? I asked the Taoiseach a question about the supplementary health budget, which cannot be provided this year under European Union fiscal rules. How will the health service cope in 2016, given the degree to which the Government has under-provided for it? This is not my analysis-----
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----but the analysis of the Health Service Executive, whose plan the Government approved in the knowledge that it was short €100 million for hospitals.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is my point. The Government is leaving the health service short.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Under this Government, the waiting time increased to 16 weeks.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I was reading again the programme for Government in respect of health, which I have described as one of the great works of political fiction. Let me read the key passage: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...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach believe the HSE when it says it is €100 million short for hospitals in 2016? Knowing that there can be no Supplementary Estimate next year, what will the Government do if there is any increase at all in the activity in hospitals in 2016?
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 69. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his officials, staff or advisers are informed on a regular basis of pending job announcements by the Industrial Development Agency Ireland and Enterprise Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3453/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 70. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has protocols in place with Industrial Development Agency Ireland and Enterprise Ireland concerning pending job announcements, if these announcements have to get clearance from his office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3454/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 71. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on reports from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and others that outline how job creation is not linked directly to Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3455/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Zero-hour Contracts (27 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 158. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the concerns of the Health Service Executive regarding banning zero-hour contracts because of cost implications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3452/16]
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: It states:A system of Universal Health Insurance (UHI) will be introduced by 2016, with the legislative and organisational groundwork for the system complete within this Government’s term of office. UHI will provide guaranteed access to care for all in public and private hospitals on the same basis as the privately-insured have now. There is another full page on the universal health...
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is a fair point, a Cheann Comhairle. This is all promised legislation, which never arrived.
- Order of Business (26 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Would the Taoiseach agree that it is a great work of fiction and that none of the legislation has arrived?
- 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.