Results 30,201-30,220 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Dutch model is gone.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I raise one specific issue. The Taoiseach replied in relation to Portlaoise. The health committee of the Cabinet met in May. The Taoiseach said it meets monthly and gave out the dates of the previous five meetings. Repeated warnings were given in relation to safety in the maternity unit at Portlaoise in particular as well as to other obstetric units. The Joint Committee on Health and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is a different grade.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: They did. The Minister should speak to those involved with the NTPF. It was a success but the previous Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, created a different agency and he employed people who had contracts overseas. They did not even pay tax in this country. The exercise went nowhere. Essentially, the Government undermined the NTPF at a time when it was making inroads. The idea of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: What was the outcome of the survey?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach cited the Dutch model.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: It was the only one. The Taoiseach told the people that we would follow the Dutch model.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Fine Gael paraded it up and down the country.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has extraordinary nerve to tell the House he never said it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Am I hearing this?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am incredulous. I cannot understand what the Taoiseach is saying.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: He is now saying the Dutch model is not suitable for Ireland. He promised the people of Ireland we would follow the Dutch model.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Fine Gael produced a paper on it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Let us inject a bit of life into this debate. The world will fall asleep listening to us.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Is the Dutch model gone?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: He is telling incredible untruths.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I cannot use the word "lies".
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am listening very carefully. You told a whopper of an untruth. I cannot use the word "lie".
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said the last meeting was held in May. One of the most famous promises he made before the last general election concerned his declaration that he would end the scandal of patients on trolleys. He did not do it. Before Christmas we had the largest number of patients on trolleys in the history of the system. The promise of universal health insurance is nowhere on the horizon....
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on health last met. [3270/15]