Results 36,201-36,220 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: That does not represent a purge of anybody like last week, does it? It is agreed.
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: They opposed the purging of Deputy Keaveney.
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: A report in The Irish Times today states that there have been seven vacancies on the board of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland for the past year. For some reason, the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, has not filled the vacancies despite 25 people applying for them. Last week, we had a serious debate here about horse meat or DNA in beefburgers. It is a grave issue with profound...
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: We learned today that the Food Safety Authority, which is responsible for protecting the public, could not even meet since last November because of the absence of a quorum. This is due to the incompetence of the Minister and his failure to appoint members to the board. Sources are saying that there is a legislative proposal to subsume the Food Safety Authority back into the parent...
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: Where does that stand now?
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am talking about the Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act.
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: The promised amendments to that Act to subsume the Food Safety Authority of Ireland.
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: So the board is irrelevant.
- Order of Business (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: That was a guarantee in the programme for Government.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: To use the Tánaiste's phrase.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am not. I am just noting the differentiation in language between the Minister, Deputy Noonan, and the Tánaiste.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: Did he meet them?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: Has the Minister met them?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: Sure, the Minister is the HSE now.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: A medical breakthrough that can double life expectancy is something that we should embrace and not shy away from. The discovery and emergence of the drug kalydeco is regarded as the biggest single breakthrough in relation to cystic fibrosis, CF, since the discovery of the gene mutation involved in 1989. Forbes has described this drug as "The most important drug of 2012". For all those...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: We have known about this drug for quite some time. Over the past number of years, it has been going through the various regulatory systems and clinical trials. It could have a significant impact on inpatient attendances, etc. Has the Minister for Health or anyone in the Government met the drug company, Vertex, or has there been any proactive engagement with a view to ensuring the...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: I repeat that the drug is projected to double life expectancy. This is not any ordinary drug coming on the market in terms of advancing incremental interventions or treatments of particular conditions. This is truly a very significant game-changer in a condition which has not witnessed such breakthroughs over a long period of time. In the United Kingdom, for example, the regime for...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Remuneration (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the public service is experiencing difficulties in intra staff relations and service delivery arising from the reduced pay scales that have been imposed on new recruits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2814/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions he is taking to realise his commitment to make Ireland the best small country in which to do business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56511/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (23 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale behind the inclusion of limos in the SPSV entry test for those wishing to operate in the SPSV industry; his views on whether it makes sense to apply the same test to limo drivers as applied to taxi drivers particularly in relation to area knowledge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3414/13]