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- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----in terms of the development of the national children's hospital and so on, and all of that. On the national maternity hospital, the delay was more on the political side in terms of getting that project off the ground.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: When you delay, you increase costs. We had a farcical debate in here on that question for far too long.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is relevant to costs, and the increased costs.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is ridiculous to suggest that politicians now have to oversee every bill of quantity in respect of every hospital that is going to be built.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is just ridiculous. Are we really going to get into the operational issues pertaining to the building of a hospital or a school?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: We have systems and procedures.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: We will change the procedures and the systems.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: The idea that I will revise-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----the bill of quantities is just farcical. In my humble opinion, the agencies responsible need to do their job. They need to do it properly and effectively.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: I apologise.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: As I said, on the education side, very significant investment and progress have been made in special education.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is the first thing. I acknowledge that is not so much the case on the therapies side. I am not happy with that situation.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: In terms of what has to happen, first, the CDNT teams and the HSE are endeavouring to recruit, but they are not getting sufficient numbers applying to put the full teams in place. There is a fundamental issue there in terms of recruitment and retention of therapists on the paediatric side and within children's areas more generally. That is a very practical challenge that the HSE has not...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that we need more therapists and children need more access to them as fast as we can possibly provide it.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: First, the Minister for children will bring a memorandum to the Government in the next while to get a positive decision on the ratification of the optional protocol. The Government has significantly expanded the number of people entitled to the fuel allowance.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: In the past two years in particular, we dramatically provided additional supports for those on the free fuel allowance-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----in respect of the energy crisis and the increased costs. We have gone over and above what would have been the norm in respect of the amounts of money allocated in the past two years.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: What I would say to the Deputy as well-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: What I would say as well is that-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----children can be treated overseas. It is not ideal, I understand that, but there has been a long-standing relationship between our children's hospitals and hospitals like Great Ormond Street Hospital and hospitals in the United States. That they have collaboration is nothing new-----