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- Europe Week: Statements (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Blueshirts.
- Europe Week: Statements (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The founding of what is today the European Union was one of the most important and positive developments in modern history. It is right that we take time to mark this every year, both in the Oireachtas and wider society. There is a strong case for a significant increase in the level of public commemoration of the Union’s foundation. The problem is that far too much time is spent on...
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Earlier, the Taoiseach said that the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Alex White, wanted six weeks to come back on the legislation to introduce universal primary care. The programme for Government contains a commitment that under the new general practitioner contract, the rate of remuneration of GPs will be reduced. Clearly, that is linked to promised legislation in the...
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: I did not ask about that. I asked about the commitment in the programme for Government to introduce a universal primary care Act, as the legislative basis for universal primary care.
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Clearly, whoever put the programme for Government together did not have a clue what he or she was doing. The Government committed to a primary care Act but now the Taoiseach cannot even tell us if it is going to happen or when it is going to happen.
- Order of Business (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is ridiculous.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: With the health insurance system falling into disarray, waiting lists going up and this debacle with free GP care, what actually has to happen for the Taoiseach to realise what his Cabinet colleagues privately acknowledge and what the rest of the country has known and understood for quite some time, namely, the Minister, Deputy James Reilly, is not the man to lead one of the most important...
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: I have some sympathy with my colleagues on this occasion, a Cheann Comhairle, and I agree 100% with you.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: I know you do not. The response is very much that sort of "logistical, logarithmic progression" or regression mentioned when the Minister, Deputy Reilly, was before the House to deal with primary care centres. That is an extraordinary reply from the Taoiseach. I commend him on managing to give a reply to a question on the Minister, Deputy Reilly's suitability to lead the Department of...
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: He made that promise about five or six times in the last two years. He has been questioned repeatedly by journalists and by Opposition spokespeople, including Deputy Kelleher, Deputy Ó Caoláin and others, in regard to the progression of this particular commitment and the promise that was made. Up to very recently, he was denying all comments or statements to the effect that this...
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: It was promised two years ago.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Some very clear promises and commitments were given in the programme for Government. They followed the promises that were made during the general election campaign. The programme for Government states:Universal Primary Care will be introduced in phases so that additional doctors, nurses and other primary care professionals can be recruited .... Access to primary care without fees will be...
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is clear that he was not telling the truth.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: No legislation has been published. No talks with the IMO about the contracts have been initiated. There has been no delivery of the promises.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Why did the Government make promises again and again and again on this issue?
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: It made those promises only to break them again and again. The Labour Party is still facilitating this-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----by providing cover to the Minister, Deputy Reilly, and the Government. Now, the Minister of State, Deputy White, we have been told, is wandering the offices of Government Buildings with instructions to go and do research on other strategies.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 24. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers that have not yet been paid their 2011 and 2012 agri-environment options scheme 1 and AEOS 2 payments; the percentage in each case, broken down on a county basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21475/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (8 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 41. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he discussed the Common Agricultural Policy negotiations with any European leaders recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15989/13]
- Order of Business (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Will there be a Cabinet sub-committee for that too?