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Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is what is happening.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: Of course a person who has motor neurone disease who is at the end stage should get a card. It is obvious. It is elementary.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Government has been trying to cut them - some 30,000 of them.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is refusing to focus.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: Okay.

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: A total of 31,000 discretionary medical cards have been taken from very sick children and from people with life-limiting, life-threatening and terminal conditions over the past three years. I have raised this issue on various occasions in the past 18 months at Leaders’ Questions, and the Taoiseach has consistently denied any change in policy or any move to limit and get rid of...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: The chief executive officer of Down Syndrome Ireland says that half of children with Down's syndrome have either been affected by this cull of discretionary medical cards or have lost them. The specialist nurses of the Jack and Jill Foundation wrote to the Minister for Health. They care for children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions who need 24 hour care. They say the...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: They had it already.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Labour Court Recommendations (14 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm that his Department will not pay according to the non-binding LRC recommendations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21626/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Labour Court Recommendations (14 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is current operational policy that all Labour Court recommendations in favour of the complainant are not being processed during the lifetime of the Haddington Road agreement, despite the fact that there is no such requirement under the legislation. [21627/14]

Order of Business (13 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, warned on Sunday that if this drift is allowed to continue, the Government will not last until 2016. He said we will not see 2016. This seems to have been supported by the Tánaiste, Deputy Gilmore. Apparently the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, is regarded as the praetorian guard of the coalition. He...

Order of Business (13 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, said so.

Order of Business (13 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is Mario Draghi, not the Taoiseach. Will the Taoiseach talk to the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte?

Order of Business (13 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: But he said the opposite.

Order of Business (13 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: He said the Government was going off the rails; he said the Government was drifting. He called for a programme of renewal.

Order of Business (13 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: Is this the document that will see us through?

Order of Business (13 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Government would not take them.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: I wish to make straight remarks and not weasel words. One of the questions I put to the Taoiseach was that the past is a key issue, but what is going on right now with regard to the past is, in my view, reprehensible. A hate campaign has developed against those involved in the Boston exercise. Those involved, those who did the taping and contributed to the tapes, genuinely believed they...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Ballymurphy group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6188/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 May 2014)

Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland regarding an independent panel investigating the deaths of 11 people at Ballymurphy in 1971; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6189/14]