Results 36,161-36,180 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: There will have to be legislation to bring it in.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: So the Government is going to cut them. The Taoiseach should acknowledge that what went on in the past ten years was good for disability.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach's predecessor, Brian Cowen, was quite effective in this regard.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Brian Cowen was the first Minister for Health and Children to bring any improvements to people with disabilities. If the Taoiseach had any generosity in him, he would acknowledge that and stop playing politics all the time.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Brian Cowen was the first Minister for Health and Children to be acknowledged by people with disabilities to have made improvements for them. The Taoiseach, however, continues to undermine this every day.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: There is indeed.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: There is no new scheme being proposed.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should be honest. The scheme is gone.
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources confirmed yesterday that there will be a new universal broadcasting tax which will apply to people irrespective of whether they own televisions. When can we expect to see the Broadcasting Bill and the legislation to replace the licence fee and give effect to this new tax? Could the Government provide details of the issues...
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is too late for the mobility allowance.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport is not in the review.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is the Government's document - no Department of Transport.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Government has already cut the home help scheme.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is being taken away.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: I do not have a brass neck with regard to disability issues. I stand over my record as Minister for Education and Minister for Health in introducing special needs assistants in schools, which was a radical departure for its time and has stood the test of time. I also introduced resource teachers and provided significant disability grants for people leaving second level schools and so forth.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Much of this is now under threat from the Government owing to the lack of an overall strategy to implement a national disability strategy. The key point is that the language the Taoiseach is using and the language the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch used this morning and at the parliamentary committee three weeks ago is telling recipients of the allowance that they will not receive...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----that there would be a whole-of-school approach to mental health issues.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: This is the utilisation of language that disguises the reality of a very severe and unprecedented cut for people who only have €190 a week.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach must deal with the specific issue of how people on €190 a week are supposed to cope in four months time with a dramatic reduction in their income, without consultation. There have been weeks of talks with public sector workers, but there has been no consultation with the recipients of these allowances and their income will go down by 20%. Will the Taoiseach deal with...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2013)
Micheál Martin: Deal with the issue.