Results 35,241-35,260 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Thursday, 9 May, is Europe Day. Unfortunately, the European Union and the European economy are not emerging from the unprecedented financial and economic crisis. The predictions are that Europe is falling deeper into recession. For the second quarter in a row we are witnessing contractions in some of the main European states, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain, and unemployment...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Fund for Ireland (7 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: 112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the International Fund for Ireland has decided not to support the Wider Horizons Project that has over the past 25 years brought more than 17,000 unemployed persons both Catholic and Protestant from the north to Pittsburgh and elsewhere in the USA to live and learn...
- Order of Business (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is fair to say that, over the last 25 years, there has been a transformation of attitudes to entrepreneurial endeavour. Many more people today will contemplate establishing a company compared to a generation ago. City and county enterprise boards have played a significant role in encouraging, influencing and supporting people to take that step to set up their own businesses. Small to...
- Order of Business (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: People are at their wits' end in communities across the country over the failure to release that funding which has been allocated in the Estimates and matched to projects. It has not been released because of some review that the Minister, Deputy Hogan, has dragged out and is delaying unnecessarily.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, this goes on all the time and it is wrong.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: What is going on is wrong. Deputies should be allowed have two minutes to ask a question. The Deputies opposite are shouting down democracy.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: I will indeed, but with respect ,it is not what is happening.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: They are interrupting all the time.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: In the meantime the point I am making is the centre cannot hold. I am not alone in saying this. The Health Insurance Authority has warned that the sustainability of the market is at risk.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Other analysts are saying that the market is heading into a death spiral because of adverse selection risks. Essentially, younger people are leaving in their droves and are not there to cross-subsidise older members of the health insurance market and we are heading into a significant downward cycle that needs to be addressed. All we have been told is that it will be 2016 or 2017 before we...
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is not the White Paper.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is not the White Paper.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister, Deputy Reilly, said a White Paper - he has been promising it for two years.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste's defence of the Minister, Deputy Reilly, is as consistent as ever.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: A long one.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: It will never happen.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The deal was done before the Government came in to office.
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: We read today that those who have health insurance are facing a further 15% hike in premiums from 1 July. This means that the average premium for two adults and two children will have doubled in the past three years, to €2,500. The hike about to come in is the result of legislation that is coming in July. The Government wants to raise €60 million and wants to charge the full...
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The public hospitals have always charged health insurance companies. What is proposed now is that it will be the full cost. The problem is that it is being done in a vacuum and without any overall solution coming forward in terms of the issues that face the funding of the overall health service. People pay their taxes. The average health insurance subscribers are taxpayers. They are not...
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Some 6,000 subscribers are leaving a month. Some 90,000 will leave between now and 2014 and 68,000 left in 2012.