Results 341-360 of 46,414 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy speaks a lot as well. I am not-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----just about talk. I am about practical action and the hard yards of trying to persuade people.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The political accommodation in South Africa involved people on all sides taking momentous steps in the context of truth commissions and everything else.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Ultimately, if we want Palestinians and Israelis to live side by side in harmony, there will have to be a political resolution. That will involve-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Everybody in this House has condemned the bombardment of Gaza.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Everybody has to be fair. I am trying to say that, ultimately, there is no other way. It is like what happened in Northern Ireland. For 30 years, people were bombing and maiming each other. People are now living together in harmony-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----and in peace. That ultimately has to happen in the Middle East. Otherwise, there will not be sustainable peace in the region. We have to work at that. That is hard work.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue and for his long-term commitment in respect of it. He has consistently raised it in the House on a number of occasions. The Government continues to support the roll-out of a national service for long Covid. In 2022, about €2.2 million was provided for the implementation of the model of care. That trebled to €6.6 million in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I accept what the Deputy is saying. War crimes have been committed. I am in no doubt about that. What is happening is a shocking humanitarian catastrophe. The most immediate priority is this Friday, when the UN General Assembly will consider the question of admitting Palestine to the United Nations to enjoy the rights and the full gamut of what is available as a member. That vote and the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----further examination of that from a legal perspective but the advice has been very strong to us.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Again, the European Council meeting is in June, I think.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: We will see what can happen there. The Foreign Affairs Council meeting will be held before that. We have the meeting of the UN on Friday and we will see where we go from there.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: First of all, I do not rule; I am elected-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----as is everybody else in this House. We have a parliamentary democracy in this country which I respect, and I respect the views of all citizens. I am under no illusion about the strength of feeling across the entire Irish people about what is happening within Palestine, and to Palestinians in Gaza in particular. My own party has been consistently supportive of a Palestinian right to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I made the point already that graduate nurses, qualified nurses and midwives committed to and coming through the international recruitment pipeline, emergency department, ICU, maternity and community nurses are all exempt from the recruitment pause. Recruitment of nurses has continued. That is this issue. The other point, which the Deputy did not seem to pick up on, is that expenditure...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: An additional €7 billion has been invested in the health service since 2020. When people say it is worse, I do not accept that because our survival rates have improved significantly over the past decade. There is room for significant improvement in certain locations. We need very rigorous examination of certain sites as to how people are deployed to get optimal outcomes and improve...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I agree with the Deputy that the death toll and the horrors happening in Gaza are quite shocking. The death toll is now in excess of 34,000. Over 1.9 million people have been displaced and, of course, thousands of people have been badly injured as a result. On my recent visit to Rafah, UN representatives spoke about the degree of psychosocial trauma that the entire population, particularly...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: First, ní aontaím go hiomlán leis an Teachta. Ní dóigh liom go bhfuil an méid atá ráite aige cruinn maidir leis an méid daoine atá ag obair sna seirbhísí sláinte, go háirithe agus an méid banaltraí ag dul in airde. Is é fianaise an scéil go bhfuil i bhfad níos mó daoine ag obair anois sna...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is why we condemned 7 October and Hamas. That form of jihadism and rapine was unacceptable too. The Deputy has never done that. He has never condemned it-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----because of his particular view. I believe Israel has no strategic approach to the Middle East and has failed abysmally in developing a strategic approach. I believe earlier generations of leaders had a better approach to the idea of a two-state solution and getting there but it is a far more complex situation than the Deputy is articulating here today, to be fair.