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- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: In the health service, people are afraid to speak out.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Minister of State should stop his trivial, infantile interjections. This is a serious matter.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: There should be an inquiry, as people want to be able to write to the Taoiseach's office with a degree of certainty that the issues would be confidential. It is a very sinister development.
- Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should check it out.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is the opposite, as every commentator has acknowledged.
- Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach have an estimate for it?
- Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday's budget was strong on rhetoric and somewhat poor on substance. There are many issues one could discuss such as the lack of initiatives on small-to-medium-sized enterprise, the lack of transparency on the health Estimate, water charges and the lack of a substantial public investment programme, but my focus this morning is on the tax changes introduced yesterday. Without question,...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer the specific question I put to him. Is it fair that someone on €18,000 gets €174 a year before he or she has to pay the water charges while someone on €100,000 gets €746? That is the basic proposition I put to the Taoiseach and I asked him a very simple question. Is that fair? I asked the Taoiseach a second question, namely what is...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, I will make a serious point. I have been here a long time in Leinster House and the Dáil.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: I have never before witnessed the discourtesy displayed by the Government side to the Opposition on budget day.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: There is not a single Minister or Minister of State on the other side of the House.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is a disgrace and I have not seen the likes of it before. Something should be done and at the very minimum, the Government should show respect and have a presence here when Opposition Members from all parties are commenting on the budget presentations by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Minister for Finance. This reveals the absolute contempt for parliamentary...
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Sacrificed again. Excluded again.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (14 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 71. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the EU/USA trade agreement talks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35665/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Exemptions (14 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 346. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if persons in nursing homes are obliged to pay a vacant house water charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39249/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (9 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 134. To ask the Minister for Health if a policy change has taken place which now means that the provision of home concentrator and portable oxygen cylinders are to be provided directly by nursing homes and that the cost is no longer covered by a patient/residents medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38646/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (9 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received correspondence from a school (details supplied) in County Cork regarding the pupil-teacher ratio; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38635/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (9 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she received correspondence from a school (details supplied) in County Cork regarding the school profile questionnaire; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38636/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (9 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she or her Department have received correspondence from the Irish Primary Principals' Network outlining its concerns regarding the schools profiling questionnaire; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38637/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (9 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding schools profiling questionnaire; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38638/14]