Results 32,501-32,520 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (30 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: 836. To ask the Minister for Health when the national diabetic retinal screening programme began screening; the targets for numbers to be screened; the number of persons that have been screened to date by each screening organisation; the number of appointments made for screening at each screening organisation that did not subsequently take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (30 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: 837. To ask the Minister for Health the reason general practitioners making referrals to the national diabetic retinal screening programme can only make individual referrals and cannot simply submit a patient list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19194/14]
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: The programme for Government contains a commitment to legislate on the issue of Cabinet confidentiality. Will the Taoiseach indicate when that legislation will be brought forward? Given the selective and random manner in which the Government decides that it wants to breach Cabinet confidentiality, in its efforts to manage and control news and engage in spin, will the Taoiseach indicate...
- Appointment of Clerk Assistant of Dáil Éireann (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: The writ can be moved now.
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. I want to oppose the Order of Business.
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am opposing it in light of what has transpired in the last 24 hours. The contents of an important memo have essentially been circulated to the media in precise detail. I note that the figure of €537 million used by the Taoiseach is the exact figure cited in this morning'sIrish Independent. Given that we are going into a week's recess tomorrow, I suggest that the Government should...
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: We raised this in the Dáil yesterday. We have been raising it in the Dáil since last February.
- Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: We have spoken time and time again about the importance of clarity and transparency and the need for a debate on these issues. All along the way, the Taoiseach said that things would become clearer in a couple of weeks' time. He used the word "shortly" yesterday. He told us nothing about what was to take place at the Cabinet table this morning. He did not mention what the Minister for the...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is anything but clear this morning. No one could decipher anything from what he is saying. If the Taoiseach had turned on "Morning Ireland" this morning and heard the political correspondent, Ms Martina Fitzgerald, he would have heard that the Government was bringing this memo to Cabinet today and that this was going to be announced today. By the end of "Morning Ireland" the...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, the people I meet, including pensioners, are basically concerned about what bill they will receive in the last quarter of this year. That is what people want to know. They were aghast when they saw the €180 million extravagance surrounding the establishment of Irish Water. That annoyed and angered many people. There was secrecy surrounding that.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach endeavoured to keep it under the radar for quite some time. He then said he would publish everything well in advance of the local elections but he has not done so. He keeps trying either to leak or soften the blow, but the public want to know how much they will be paying for water by the end of this year. It is a basic and simple request. The only reason they do not know is...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: Is it because Labour angrily raised the leaks to the newspapers this morning and the Taoiseach has deferred it from today? What are the implications of that? The Taoiseach did not answer the question of whether there will be an ability to pay provision in the regime that is being announced. The memo that was circulated to the media says that any welfare protection has been categorically...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is categorically in the memo, according to RTE's reporting today and the newspapers.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is in all the newspapers that the level is €537 million. That is the exact figure.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: And they were.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday the Taoiseach was asked questions in the House about the new water tax and standing charge and he gave very little information to the Members of the House. He referred to a draft memo from Irish Water but played down its implications. He failed to mention anything about a draft memo going to Government this morning for a special meeting on water charges and the water tax issue,...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: We learned, for example, that the average cost will be between €250 and €300 and that the free allowance will consist of a seven minute power shower, a three minute tap run to brush one's teeth and two flushes of the toilet and that is basically it. That is the level of detail that was available this morning. There will be an annual standing charge, we were told, applying to...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: Will there be an ability to pay provision in the regime? Will there be any link to a person's income or capacity to pay?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2014)
Micheál Martin: Which test?