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- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: I am not familiar with the background to the case and so forth but I will certainly talk to the Minister for Education in relation to the issue the Deputy has raised. There are established industrial relations and conciliation frameworks to try to resolve these issues or progress various schemes. I will, however, certainly discuss this issue with the Minister for Education.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: I imagine there are quite a number of complications in expanding such a scheme. I will talk to the Minister for Transport and seek to get the outcome of the evaluation of the pilot scheme, because I presume there was an evaluation. I will talk to the Minister in respect of it.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: Okay, but it has implications for the Department of Transport too.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: Oh, it has.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: I will talk to the Minister in respect of the situation in Clonmel. More generally, there has been a consistent increase in investment in water infrastructure and wastewater treatment across the country. That investment has been effective in many areas. There is a significant programme ahead that will demand considerable capital investment for years to come-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy acknowledged that the Department has intervened in terms of the cost of secretarial services, wages, salaries and so on, which was a long running issue in primary education. Looking at the broader picture, budget 2024 provided targeted funding for school communities with an increase in capitation-related funding of over €81 million. As part of the capitation package in the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. School caretakers are essential and they play a vital role in the life of any school, as do the school secretaries. Whenever I go into a school, I always describe the school secretaries as the engine room of the school because they make things tick for the principal and everybody else. That is generally the situation. Caretakers also have a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. Is ceist an-tábhachtach í. Over the past 20 years, there has been significant professionalisation of the entire area of medical technicians and the entire ambulance service. Much of that was informed by international best practice, such as in the development of the standards of training for emergency medical technicians, which replaced a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: The report should be published. I will speak to the Minister for Health about the up-to-date position. I understand the report received significant media attention in one publication. If a report is commissioned by a service, it should be published openly by the HSE. As I said, the HSE's national service plan had various key performance indicators regarding purple calls, which are cardiac...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy has said herself that this dispute cannot be resolved on the floor of this House, and she invoked her own-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----experience in industrial relations, so I will not play politics with this on the floor of the House. I agree 100% that this is incredibly disruptive to many families, it is creating-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----unacceptable anxiety to many families-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----and it needs to be resolved. Given the Deputy’s experience in industrial relations, she knows full well that-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----the only way for this to be resolved is-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----in the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, or the Labour Court. Essentially, it has to be resolved within the industrial relations machinery. The Deputy knows that, I know that, and most people in this House know that. I urge both sides, in the interests of the people of this country, to get around the table and hammer out a resolution to this issue. That is the only way this can be...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy has identified the challenges, just as I have.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: There is not much difference between what she and I have said.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: You have not asked anything-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: Through the Chair, the Deputy has not asked anything specific. Other than identifying the problem, she has not come up with a specific solution.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)
Micheál Martin: Whatever does that mean?