Results 32,881-32,900 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I just raised a point of order. The Chief Whip did not know, as late as this morning, how the speeches would be organised. He did not even know how the blocks of speakers would be organised. There was complete disagreement all morning between the Whips.
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: It was completely disorganised. The Government did not know what way it wished to organise this. It is absolutely disgraceful.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Labour Party was-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach publish the memo?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach told me that four weeks ago-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----and four weeks before that.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is uncalled for.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach needs to be honest with people and say this will cost more. It will cost people extra money. I was not the first to say that. The Ministers for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputies Noonan and Howlin, were the first to raise the red flag on this.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Minister is shaking his head. He should publish the memo that was circulated today. Why not publish it? If The Irish Times can get it, surely the Dáil can get the memo. Why not publish the White Paper?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The people have been waiting three years for the White Paper on universal health insurance.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Despite all the talk of radical change, the only reality for people is that the cost of health insurance policies has gone up 60% in the meantime. Tax relief for health insurance policies has been curtailed.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: There is serious uncertainty about the private health insurance market.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is what is happening now. The same is happening with medical cards. They are being taken from people.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Thirty-five thousand medical cards are being taken from older people this year. Disgracefully, medical cards have been taken from young children with multiple special needs. People are worried because their sense of universal health care as advanced by this Government has meant a withdrawal of services-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----in the primary care field, the acute hospital setting-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----and in the community care setting through the reduction in home help hours, the massive increase in private health insurance premiums and the reductions in tax relief. There is an incredible yawning gap between the reality as experienced by people and the rhetoric peddled day in, day out, with no detail and no serious or substantive debate in this House about what is supposed to be the...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: It never did.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: We have a very fine legacy in health.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Why are people living longer?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Something must be working. Does the Taoiseach have a problem with longevity?