Results 581-600 of 50,683 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am just stating the facts. It is very clear to me that the major powers have to intervene to get Israel to change course and stop doing what it is doing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Children's Health Ireland, CHI, commissioned the audit. This is a very serious issue. It is of very serious concern to both the parents of children and to children who might now be teenagers. The audit is in respect of the period 2021 to 2023 and relates to developmental dysplasia. The decision by CHI to commission an audit was made in order to have an independent look at it and make sure...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, it is not your moment.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: The generic letter I have seen essentially states that it relates to a follow-up to surgery at Children's Health Ireland to correct developmental dysplasia and that an audit is under way. It also states, in terms of skeletal maturity-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Please, now. This is not about politics, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am not, now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: This is outrageous behaviour by you, now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Deputy O'Callaghan is entitled to an answer. It is not the Sinn Féin Deputies' question.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: You have been doing this since this Dáil began, and I ask you to stop because it is too serious. I have no interest in hiding anything - none.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Why would I? For God's sake, reflect on what you are trying to assert. I am as serious about it as anybody is. It is horrendous if anything wrong was done but we need to find out the full facts. That is what we want to do in terms of the parents and children involved. That is it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Minister asked CHI to please tell her how many letters are out there, but the context of the letters is as important as the number. The final point I would make is my understanding is that the audit will be ready - fairly imminently, I hope. I do not govern that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I cannot force the pace in respect of that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: We need to tease that out. What are we saying about the letters that have been sent out? Yesterday a word was used, namely "recall". Once a number is announced, people will draw all sorts of conclusions from that number. My understanding is the letter has gone out to children who have been operated on, potentially as far back as 2010, or to parents in respect of a child. The important...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I know the Deputy dismisses people on social welfare. She has just done so.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: To be fair to her party, it moves along the spectrum from time to time in terms of the political narrative. The point, of course, is that what I did say was that provision has been made across the board in terms of taxation measures, the social protection code-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and milestone and significant breakthrough initiatives. Every child going to school in this country now has free books.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: If the Deputy had said that to me three or four years ago, she would not have believed we would do it but we did. We have also significantly expanded the hot school meal programme. These are universal, long-lasting programmes that are now embedded in the public expenditure programme. I recall the Deputy in high dudgeon when we were doing the cost-of-living packages, saying they were...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Just because the Deputy says something does not mean it is true. What I said to her on the most recent occasion she raised this issue, when she said she had read the programme for Government, was that the whole agenda was to create a narrative and presentation that this new Government, which is just a few months old, is somehow-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Will the Deputy allow me to answer the question without the heckling and interrupting?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I know Sinn Féin's bona fides in climate change is exemplary. The presentation of the narrative by Deputy Bacik is to characterise the Government as being somehow not in favour of measures to address climate change. Nothing could be further from the truth. The bottom line in terms of the climate action plan and the agenda ahead of us is that we are fundamentally committed to...