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- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Will there be ward closures?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Will there be ward closures?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Will there be ward closures?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Will there be ward closures?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: I have asked the Taoiseach five times if there will be ward closures.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Fundamentally I asked the Taoiseach two core questions. First, does the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, have genuine confidence in the Minister, Deputy Reilly? That relates to very fractious correspondence between the two in July and May, when the Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, confirmed that despite seeking delegated authority on primary care, she had been frustrated time and...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Minister did not do a single thing in regard to any of those in the first eight months of this year, knowing full well that those targets were not realisable. That is why I charged that it was a false budget and that is what has put the health service into the crisis in which it finds itself this year in terms of finances. The Taoiseach mentioned waiting lists. The cynical thing the...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----above which there are very few people, and then he quotes percentages. The key targets and objectives of the National Treatment Purchase Fund and its achievements over the years were dramatically reducing those on waiting lists for more than three months and six months. Since the Minister, Deputy Reilly, has come to office those waiting lists-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----have escalated and gone through the roof.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is not just those on this side of the House who have deep misgivings about how the Minister, Deputy Reilly, is acting. One Labour Minister is quoted as saying: "Several times I have tried to work with him on a number of things and he appears to be so partisan that if you're not one of his cronies, he doesn't want to know. I don't have that problem with any other Fine Gael Minister."...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: "The first I heard of the cuts was the HSE announcement," said the Minister of State, Deputy Sherlock. "Everyone else has managed to live with Croke Park and keep within budget. What is so special about James Reilly?" asked one senior figure. I ask the Taoiseach to read any newspaper in the past three weeks. The benches here deserted that man in droves in recent weeks and left him...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach would be well advised not to be attacking this side of the House but to reflect on what is, unfortunately and regrettably, a common refrain across this House irrespective of party or constituency in terms of the management of the health service in 2012.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Do they have confidence?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: I want to tell the Taoiseach something about the files in the Taoiseach's office that were shredded. Is that a figment of his imagination, Lenin coming to Ireland in 1922?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: I think the Taoiseach is terrified of some of those on his left-hand side.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Speaking in his defence?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Roscommon.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach promised them left, right and centre, and was caught out on tape.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: He swore blind in here that he gave them no promise, but the tape appeared and he was recorded making a very definitive commitment.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2012)
Micheál Martin: Whom is the Taoiseach codding?