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- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: In 25 out of the 29 there have been increased numbers.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is a Government problem.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is in government. He is the manager.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Cubicles are lying idle in accident and emergency departments.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I gave that to the Taoiseach yesterday.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: We are taking Leaders' Questions now.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I can assure the Ceann Comhairle the issues raised will be topical.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The situation in our accident and emergency departments is chaotic and out of control. All of us in this House will have been shocked at the contents of a letter written by an emergency department consultant at Tallaght hospital to his chief executive officer, which was copied to the Minister for Health and referenced by me to the Taoiseach yesterday. It outlines how a couple in their 90s,...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach not ashamed of this damning indictment of his stewardship?
- Northern Ireland: Statements (3 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Cuireann mise agus Fianna Fáil fáilte roimh an díospóireacht seo. Tá sé tábhachtach go bhfuilimid ag tabhairt ama chun ceisteanna an Tuaiscirt a phlé agus rudaí áirithe a shoiléiriú. Unfortunately, a pattern has been established in recent years where we are only allowed to discuss Northern Ireland when a new crisis emerges....
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government is bankrupt of ideas.
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: On health legislation, in the past few hours I received a copy of a letter which has been sent to the chief executive officer of Tallaght hospital and copied to the Minister for Health and a number of other people. It details in an horrific way the circumstances in the emergency department in Tallaght hospital in terms of how senior citizens are being treated. It states that on one...
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I know. This relates to legislation. The consultant stated this man, like others in non-designated patient conduits, had no privacy and no dignity, had been subject to constant noise and light torture, resulting in major sleep deprivation and pressure effects causing pain from lying for a prolonged period on a trolley which had not been designed for that purpose.
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The letter goes through the safety issues and previous experiences in Tallaght hospital when HIQA protocols were introduced. The Taoiseach may remember the case of the 101 year old patient. No. 42 in the Government's legislative programme is the health information and patient safety Bill. This represents an appalling indictment of the Minister for Health. The Government needs to respond...
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will deal with it.
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: This is leading to legislation which has been promised. I want to set the context for the question I wish to ask.
- Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is a very well researched article in The Guardianand the workers in question are from Egypt, Ghana and the Philippines. There have been cases in the past when we brought forward legislation. The Government's legislative programme provides for the introduction of an international protection Bill. I respectfully suggest to the Taoiseach that there is a need to accelerate this legislation...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: We had three-year money.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: That was in 2012.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not.