Results 33,601-33,620 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The outpatient lists are shocking. You undermined repeatedly the National Treatment Purchase Fund by taking the funds from it and putting them into the special delivery unit and the result is that there are far more people on the waiting list.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: This is the total volume of inpatient and day case people waiting for procedures in our hospitals. I did not publish these figures. The National Treatment Purchase Fund published them. Please do not try to undermine them by more spin and trying to camouflage the reality on the ground for children and people who are waiting for badly needed procedures.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that when the Minister, Deputy Reilly, came to office the National Treatment Purchase Fund had clear targets - six months for adults and three months for children. The Minister invents the 12 months target and gets rid of three months and six months and gets away with it for a year by essentially falsifying the message and the presentation of the message.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that it has come through. Some 107 were on the waiting list in December 2012 for nine months and more while the number is now 4,473. That is not my figure, it is the figure from the National Treatment Purchase Fund. There has been a 97% increase in the number of people waiting nine months and more, according to the National Treatment Purchase Fund. The position...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: What is the Taoiseach going to do to change tack, stop all he spin and the presentation, and the undermining of the National Treatment Purchase Fund that has happened in the past two years? The result is that there are more people waiting for longer times than every before.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (27 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 14. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to expand market access in the United States of America. [48807/13]
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: He can only appeal on the basis of income threshold under separate criteria.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: It could have been Castlebar Mitchels.
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: As the Taoiseach knows, the medical card situation is creating grave anxiety across the country. Approximately 40,000 medical cards were taken out of the system last year. Some 10,000 of them were discretionary medical cards. We know that the passing of the Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013 will lead to 35,000 medical cards being taken from people over the...
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach provide Government time for this House to debate the health service plan? Deputies should have reasonable time to make an input into the health service plan. There is acute anxiety among the public in relation to health matters generally. When can we expect the Bill providing for the dismantling of the HSE to be brought to the House?
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: What about the Bill?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I welcome the fact the Taoiseach has such contact with so many people.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I wish he had much more contact with many medical card holders who have lost their medical cards because he would then have a far greater grasp of that reality but that is a separate matter for a different forum. However, the failure of the Government to grasp the reality of people losing their discretionary medical cards on a continual basis is something I cannot comprehend. The Taoiseach...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: It would not have to do with the British-Irish Council.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I have 15 questions out of the 38. I appreciate that they are all related. I do not have a difficulty with the fact that there are 38 questions being answered at once, that is fair enough but I hope the Taoiseach will bear with me as I ask-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am for it. I accept it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I only say as much as a preamble and because there may be several questions covering the 15 in my name. That is all.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Central Bank Governor, Professor Patrick Honohan, has stated clearly that further capital injections will be required for our banks. A report at the weekend said the Government may give up a substantial part of its return from Bank of Ireland to increase its capital base. Whether we get a lower return than expected remains to be determined because of the necessity to make capital...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he has had discussions with Chancellor Angela Merkel recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39086/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (26 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he has written to Chancellor Angela Merkel since her re-election; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40517/13]