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- Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Will the HSE governance Bill be published during the summer recess? What is the intention? Does the Government have interim plans in terms of the legal structures governing the provision of health services at this time? There is a lack of clarity as to who is in charge, whether the Secretary General, the Minister, the chief executive officer of the Health Service Executive, the officials-----
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Given the volume of issues we have to raise, putting in place a legislative framework would give much needed clarity to a situation that is of the Minister's own creation. He abolished the HSE board without putting anything in its place.
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Hallelujah.
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Has the Cabinet sub-committee met?
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: It obviously did not have a full hearing.
- Order of Business (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Irish Daily Mail got an exclusive on the issue today.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Upskilling of the population and the workforce is stated as Government policy and it is a great pity this aspiration is not matched by policy decisions by Ministers. The Taoiseach frequently mentions in the House PayPal and its announcement of 1,000 jobs as being great news for the people of the north east, which it is, and it is very welcome. However, as the Taoiseach can see, its chief...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: There are times when I find the Taoiseach's replies to questions both incredible and baffling. I have known for a long time that there is no restriction on the capacity of a Donegal person to learn any language-----
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----but the Taoiseach said we must start learning languages at a lower level. That is the point of my question. There is a programme called the modern languages primary initiative.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Exactly.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: A total of 550 schools participated in that which was good value for money in that â¬2 million was the annual cost. There were hundreds of teachers involved across the country. It was efficiently introduced into primary schools in terms of complementing the existing curriculum. German was one of those languages, and the Taoiseach has scrapped it for the sake of making a saving of â¬2...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----and a core skills issue is very clear. The Taoiseach does not know what he is doing, and there are no alternative schemes. He said at the beginning of his reply that they are doing other schemes. They are not doing other schemes.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: There is no other scheme in place at primary level in terms of modern languages that are sponsored and supported by the State. I put it to the Taoiseach that he does not have a strategy in terms of the language issue or the language problem, as the chief executive officer of PayPal identifies it. Will he accept that this is a further example of spin coming before substance and the policy...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: No.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Yes, and it was a success. The evaluation was positive.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: I am not talking about that.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: They do not.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach does not appreciate it. The Taoiseach scrapped it. Words are cheap.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2012)
Micheál Martin: Why get rid of it?