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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (24 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if officials in his Department prepared extensive notes on the Seanad Éireann referendum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39495/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Referendum (24 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if officials in his Department who work in the Government information service are monitoring and rebutting comments made in the media on the Seanad Éireann referendum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39496/13]

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: This is systemic.

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: People throughout the country are receiving letters notifying them of a review of their medical card eligibility and entitlements. In many cases, medical cards are being taken away from people, which causes great anxiety and distress to them. Within this general cull of medical cards there has been a particularly nasty focus on those with serious illnesses who had discretionary medical...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: She said she had read with interest a statement from the HSE indicating that those with severe and life-threatening illnesses would continue to receive medical cards. Professor Hardiman wrote:I am puzzled by the disparity between the policy as enunciated and our recent experience in the motor neurone disease clinic. Within the past few months, I have drafted many letters to the HSE in...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am not talking about the general population because the number of medical cards currently being issued is a function of joblessness. High unemployment equals higher numbers of medical cards being issued. I asked the Taoiseach a specific question on discretionary medical cards. In many ways, however, his answer is in denial of the reality on the ground. I quoted Professor Orla Hardiman...

Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: People who hear responses from the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the HSE cannot equate them with the reality on the ground. That is the experience of most Deputies here also, given the numbers of people who have come to them in the past year. Last year's budget signalled that about 40,000 medical cards would be taken out of the system. It is those who are medically most compromised who...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions (24 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: 91. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to allow the remaining applicants under agri-environment option scheme 3 join this scheme in 2014 in view of the delay in introducing the reformed Common Agriculture Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39533/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fodder Crisis (24 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: 102. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money paid out to date for the fodder transport subsidy; the number of applications received; the number of applications paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39550/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations Opening Hours (24 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: 422. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current opening hours of Cabinteely Garda Station, Dublin 18; if any consideration is being given to either limit those opening hours or close the station at any point in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39239/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (24 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: 423. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the exact number of Gardaí assigned to District F (Dublin) as of the 1 June 2012; the number currently stationed there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39240/13]

Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Minister for Social Protection is fighting a rearguard action.

Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: There is a Bill listed.

Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: The programme for Government contained specific promises on the care of the elderly. It was stated that investment in the supply of more and better care for older people in the community and in residential settings would be a priority for this Government and also that the Government would provide additional funding each year for the care of older people with this funding to provide more...

Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: -----with people bringing in letters they have received. For example, 69 year olds and people who have cards-----

Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: The elderly are feeling it. When people watching on television hear the Tánaiste saying that medical cards are not being targeted, they wonder are people in this House in the real world because we are all getting the representations. When will the commitments in the programme for Government relating to the elderly be implemented? When can we expect the implementation of these...

Order of Business (19 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste needs to read a few briefs.

Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: What happens if something emerges after the deadline?

Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: Before the last general election the Tánaiste made a significant commitment in regard to people, particularly young children, with disabilities and special needs. There is an unacceptable situation facing children in terms of the provision of special needs supports in our schools. The deadline for applications for special needs assistants is tomorrow, 20 September, whereas last year it...

Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2013)

Micheál Martin: I am surprised the Minister for Education and Skills is not aware of the case to which I referred, given that I wrote to him about it some weeks ago, as did others. Perhaps he will check that correspondence. The situation is very well known in the Department and in the National Council for Special Education. Rather than go public on this issue initially, I wrote about it. I just could not...