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- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: To be frank, that is a meaningless response. The Taoiseach made reference to adjustments and named three items that are not adjustments at all. Making people aware of something is not changing anything. An independent audit of how poorly a system is working is not changing anything, with only 199 cases concluded to date. The third point I could not quite understand, to be frank. The...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The bank ultimately brought them to court without engaging with them. It is an insult to those people when a Government Minister or the Taoiseach says they are only being brought to court because the banks want them to engage because they have not done so to date. That is not the truth. There are lots of people out there who are at their wits' end. These are responsible people who want to...
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Only 199 cases have been dealt with.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach cannot specify those measures now.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why can the Taoiseach not specify them now? We had a debate on this issue last week. Why did the Government not outline those new measures in the House then?
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Those kinds of glib soundbites got the Taoiseach elected but they will not get him re-elected.
- Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Last week I raised the issue of home repossessions and mortgage arrears and the numbers of cases coming before the courts. There have been 7,000 repossession orders lodged in the courts as of January of this year, not to mind the 8,000 last year, and it is estimated that over the next two years up to 25,000 family homes could be repossessed. It is interesting to note that two thirds of those...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aer Lingus Sale (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 567. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the sale of Aer Lingus regarding the cast iron guarantee in respect of connectivity for airports here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6607/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (10 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 624. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the plans for the 1916 commemoration celebrations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6608/15]
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Tá geallúint i gclár an Rialtais an méid daltaí atá ag tabhairt faoin Ghaolainn san Ardteist ag ardleibhéal a dhúbailt le linn tréimhse an Rialtais. Conas atá ag éirí leis an Rialtas maidir leis an geallúint sin? Cé mhéad daltaí atá ag déanamh an Ghaolainn ag ardleibhéal san Ardteist faoi...
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: An bhfuil aon tuairim ag an Taoiseach é féin?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Minister of State, Deputy Simon Harris-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: They are false budgets.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is an absolute disgrace.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is playing election slogans while people are being treated on trolleys.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I raise the question of how we are treating elderly people in our hospital system and the complete absence of dignity in such treatment. We were all appalled last week when we heard the story of Gerry Feeney, who spent more than five days in the emergency department in Beaumont and was denied the basics of daily living, such as eating, dressing, bathing and getting out of bed, when he was...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Minister said that he made the Taoiseach aware of the budgetary issues and that a spending plan could be brought forward later in the year. Does the Taoiseach intend to act now? The Gerry Feeney case arose some weeks ago and that doctor's letter was written in December.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will the Government make the decision to provide the necessary spending plan to take people out of their misery and give some dignity back to elderly people in our hospitals?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said that the situation is not "satisfactory". That is a mild word given the content of letter from the specialist registrar and the experience of people attending emergency departments. The Minister for Health told the Joint Committee on Health and Children last week that additional resources are needed for the fair deal scheme. He outlined two realistic options, namely,...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will.