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Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: The terms "later this year" has been used for the past ten years in respect of this.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should tell that to the young women in hotel rooms.

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: We have been silenced.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: Standing Order 1071 was removed from today’s schedule and, according to a late note to our office, it is proposed to bring it in tomorrow. The Standing Order is consequent on the passing of the Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2014, which was passed last week and which states:Any member of either House of the Oireachtas to whom confidential information is provided under subsection (5)...

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: I am asking the Taoiseach not to move it.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: He was told it was a fait accompli.

Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: If a Member mentioned, for example, Anglo Irish Bank as being in Central Bank documentation, could it be in breach of the privacy legislation? We need far more transparency about what is allowable and what is not because the public has not got a clue about it. The Act and the Standing Order could constitute a very restrictive mechanism on members of the inquiry, about which the Government...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: Last week I raised the issue of patients with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria, PNH, a life-threatening blood disease, being denied access to Soliris, a life-saving medicine. Some 35% of people with the condition die within five years, which is the life expectancy without treatment. It is a serious situation. In 2010, ten patients were put on treatment at St James's Hospital by the...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: We gave them medicine.

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach knows more than he is saying. Some nine months ago, he wrote to Mary Gorman enclosing an e-mail from Laverne McGuinness of the HSE. The offer nine months ago was €125,000, a 65% discount on the current price. There has been nothing since. That offer is not realistic. We are playing hardball with people's lives and there is a UK precedent. The National Institute for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Council Meetings (4 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the decision made at the EU Council meeting in December 2014 regarding the €500 million disbursement to Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4303/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Levy (4 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance his response to the statement of the Pensions Ombudsman given to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance and Public Expenditure that the imposition of a 0.6% levy on private sector pension schemes in 2011 was legal but not necessarily fair; and that Government statements at the time of the levy’s introduction, to the effect that employers could be...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: It will be some accident and emergency unit at that price.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: Parliamentarians should be similarly encouraged.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: Government Deputies have a habit of getting carried away.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: Yes.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: The latest figures today from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation show there are 518 people waiting on trolleys in emergency departments throughout the country, with 54 people awaiting admission to University Hospital Limerick. Again, we are looking at a serious situation in our emergency departments. It is reaching critical levels and heading close to the record-breaking 601 figure...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: Under the legislation for referendums there is a proposal to change the nominating procedures for the presidency arising out of the Constitutional Convention. The Government committed to a referendum on that, as I understand it, in terms of actually changing how potential candidates for the presidency are nominated, which is a substantive issue. Can the Taoiseach indicate whether the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (3 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is already electioneering.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (3 Feb 2015)

Micheál Martin: In regard to Question No. 5, there have been conflicting messages emanating from the Government over the past months in terms of negotiations with the public service and wage talks in general. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, has been saying fairly consistently that there will not be any wage increases. Labour Party Ministers are falling over themselves saying there will be...