Results 501-520 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: There is an onus on the Medical Council to be proactive in respect of this issue. I am conscious that it is a random, anonymised sample, although, to paraphrase, the author says there is a preponderance to smaller number of surgeons in this context. I do not know who the clinical director at Cappagh is, by the way, but I know who the clinical director was at that time. That in itself is a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Minister has said already in response to that the last evening that she is not ruling out going beyond 2010, but that the priority right now has to be followed through-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: Let us be sensible about it. The Minister has to deal with those where skeletal maturity applies in terms of the cases that have been the subject matter of the external review, which is about 15 years. For those over that, they are in a transitional programme of care already as they transition to adult care. However, the Minister has said that this can be looked at in the context of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: I appreciate the Deputy's acknowledgement of certain measures the Government has taken. The Government has acted, as indeed has the Opposition. The Deputy made a very fair point about the State of Palestine today and the question of how one reconstructs a pathway to a two-state solution in the context of the appalling war and genocide being waged by Israel. I am very conscious of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is at that level-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----and at the level of the United States Government that the real leverage can happen to get Israel to stop.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: On the bond issue, the Central Bank of Ireland is part of the European Central Bank. It is a constituent member of the European Central Bank. We all know that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: No, it does not act unilaterally on fundamental matters.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: That is the reality of Ireland joining the European Central Bank. The Central Bank is independent of the Government, by the way. That is a fundamental point of central banks. Politicians and other political leaders rail against central banks. That is another inconvenient truth-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: It does not sell.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is a very narrow area in terms of the prospectuses and whether that would-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: There are limits. If all of us want to be honest about this - I want to get the right phrase here - we are really on very narrow ground here.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: We are, really. This is not as proclaimed. The Central Bank is not facilitating anything-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----or approving bonds or anything like that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: Children are being slaughtered.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: Innocent civilians have been slaughtered.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: No one in this House should be looking for a pat on the back.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: No one in this House should be seeking some sort of moral superiority over others in this House.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: The focus must be relentlessly on the policies of Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli Government, which is made up of extreme far-right elements, who are committing genocide in Gaza right now. Let us call a spade a spade. The Deputy knows the most effective way is-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----to persuade as many member states as possible within the European Union and the United States to pull their support from the State of Israel as regards what it is doing now.