Results 28,921-28,940 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach just keeps making up stories.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Vincent Browne?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: "And others". The Taoiseach has it stitched up with RTE already.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: No, I do not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: You do.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Parliamentary Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach does not debate publicly with anybody anywhere.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: No, we did not. The Taoiseach should not be telling untruths.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why?
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government cut their pay dramatically.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: It was the Government that cut their pay.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: They have had enough of the broken promises on this issue. It is a national campaign and, they say, a last resort against a daily acceptance by Government of emergency department overcrowding. Does the Taoiseach accept that morale is at an all-time low in our hospital emergency departments? Does he accept that staff retention and recruitment is extremely difficult, that patient safety is...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer the questions I put to him, including the question about whether the Government has under-resourced the health service over the last number of years and particularly the area under discussion. Equally, I note the Taoiseach's use of language in stating that this is a "challenge" or a "problem." He has no sense of the crisis. It is not a challenge or a problem...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Reilly knew it was a false budget. It is very clear from the interview that he now feels he was shafted by the Taoiseach and is continuing to be shafted by the Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, whose only response is "It is his fault."
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is interesting to note that universal health insurance, which was supposed to solve all problems and was used as a cover for the Government to say it would take care of everything, has been shelved. The Government told the Irish people it would get everybody off trolleys. I had to answer questions from journalists who kept asking me if Deputy Reilly got it wrong.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: They did not ask whether Fine Gael had got it wrong or whether the Taoiseach or Deputy Varadkar had got it wrong, but whether Deputy Reilly had got it wrong.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I wonder how that happened.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is the favourite response.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: "Blame anybody but me. Move on to the next culprit."
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I want to put the following to the Taoiseach. In its strike notice, the INMO has made it very clear that-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I apologise, but I would like to get answers to the questions I put. The fundamental point is the resourcing of emergency departments. The Taoiseach talks about the reduction in the waiting time for the fair deal scheme from 16 weeks to four weeks, but the Government created the 16-week wait by under-resourcing the scheme at the time.