Results 561-580 of 50,683 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: My understanding is - I will check it - that it may have gone out to tender as part of a bundle that could involve Lismore primary care centre as well. There has been a lot of progress made on primary care centres over the last four to five years. Gorey is a huge and growing town and area.
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I thank Deputy Brabazon for raising the issue. I take the essence of his point on local Garda stations having the capacity to respond to calls but this would not be uniform throughout the country. There are times when Garda stations are open and not open, particularly in the middle of the night, and this could create limitations. As Deputy Brabazon knows, between 2019 and 2020 it was...
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I will do that and I will come back to Deputy Brabazon because there is an issue in terms of how we best utilise local facilities and local resources in response to issues that could be dealt with in a quicker and more accelerated way rather than burdening the central system.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I have seen a copy of a generic letter, which does not mention the word "recall".
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: CHI has commissioned the audit. I will say it one more time. I am not endeavouring in any way to cast aspersions on anyone raising questions here. However, aspersions are being laid at the door of the Government.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Attempts have been made and the words "ducking", "dodging" and "diving" were used yesterday by the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is a false assertion by the Deputy. The Government wants the facts and I want the facts. Deputy McDonald has no-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: When the audit is complete. I know what Deputy McDonald is at. Unfortunately, it is quite-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: He is shouting again. Mr. Angry is at it again. I am simply saying-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Stop the theatrics; it is too serious.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Angry theatrics are par for the course from you and it is wrong to do it.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is not an omnishambles. Yesterday, the Minister spoke in the Dáil. She is working very hard on this issue. We must always remember the Government is contracting this service, in this case from pharmacies, as we do from general practitioners also. It should be possible to do this fairly and in the best interests of the women of the country. The Minister is working very proactively...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: The general assessment of remote working in Ireland has been positive. Over time we need to evaluate it, through a whole-of-society approach to the evaluation of remote working. It certainly is good for climate. It certainly is good for congestion within cities and towns. It is good for individuals. It has helped increase participation in the workforce and it creates a flexibility that...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: First of all, I thank the Deputy, and I do not say it patronisingly, for very eloquently presenting the case and the comparison with our own national trauma during the 19th century in terms of the Great Famine and a deliberate policy now being perpetrated by the Israeli Government in respect of denying the basic necessities of life to the people of Gaza. It is quite shocking that Israel...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I take the Deputy’s point, although I do believe we need key powers to intervene. We need key powers, such as the US and major European Union-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Hear me out, please. Major European Union countries-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: We have done it. Ireland on its own is not going to shift the dial on this.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I just want to make the point. I have noticed a shift in European opinion on this. The bigger powers, quite frankly, have to intervene here because of what is happening morally, and we will, too, but-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----the realpolitik of this is very clear to me. The big powers-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate we are all-----