Results 661-680 of 50,683 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: It was both overseas and the North originally in 2020.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is my understanding that it would require a referendum to change the Constitution, but we will come back to the Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: In relation to the Deputy's general comments, a lot of huge advances have been made in our health service as well. In fact, through the various layers of management on hospital sites now, we know a great deal of data is being collected in respect of individual patients once they enter a hospital and go in for particular treatment. A lot of information is garnered in respect of every...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is getting to the front line.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: We cannot be that superficial about it. Of course it is going to the front line.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, we need-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Some €25.8 billion has been allocated to health in 2025. That is six or seven times ahead of the figures from four or five years ago. The value-for-money thing needs to happen as well, and on another fine day the Deputy will be in here rightly raising those issues. He cannot have it both ways though. It is always a question-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: We will be allocating more to health. We do need to analyse it as well. Separate from the normal funding going into acute and tertiary services, we accept we need investment in the digital health area and we-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I join Deputy Bacik - I omitted to do so earlier - in expressing my deepest sympathies to the families of Emmanuel Familola and Matt Sibanda and the community in Donegal on the sad and shocking drownings at the weekend of the two young teenagers who were enjoying themselves with their friends. What happened made for a very sad weekend...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is correct. As I said, 399 new special classes for the next year have already been sanctioned in the past month. This has been done much earlier than in previous years. I do not have a detailed report in terms of each particular class. There are many with which there are no difficulties, but there are some in respect of which there are difficulties in terms of the logistics of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: First of all, every child is entitled and has a constitutional right to an education. It is our job as the Government to vindicate that right. I do not accept the Deputy's presentation that the Government does not care. The Government does care. There is evidence of that. I do not want to go through all the statistics as that does not console a particular parent or family who are having...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Ní aontaím leis an Teachta in aon chor. Níl an ceart aici. Ní raibh na deontais atá ann anois maidir le tithe atá folamh agus mar sin de ann riamh. Is léir sin ón méid daoine atá ag fáil deontas sa lá atá inniu ann. I do not agree with the Deputy. The refurbishment grant for derelict buildings was not there four years ago....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: The only criticism I remember was that a TV programme gave details of the grants. It was considered politically wrong to let the public know they could avail of a grant if they wanted to buy and refurbish a derelict building or vacant house. These grants have been spectacularly successful and we need more of them. Some local authorities have been good on social housing but others have not...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is not always about handouts. You can go around certain local authority estates and see six vacant houses. Millions are not needed to put those houses back into use. They should never be vacant for beyond a month. I am not just saying this now; I have said this to local authorities time and again. We have taken void initiative after void initiative. The dependency culture kicks,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy clearly then understands the context-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----of why they will be written to.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I disagree with the Deputy's analysis of the Government's response to vacancy and dereliction. The vacant homes action plan progress report 2025 highlighted the breadth of action the Government is taking to support bringing vacant properties back into use as homes. Key areas of progress include the successful delivery of the vacant property refurbishment grant, with over 11,300 applications...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: We can come back on it later. The fundamental point is that no one is ducking, diving or dodging anything and it is unfair to suggest that. We want completion. It is far better for everybody if a complete report is issued and published, and then we can act on it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: If Deputy McDonald does not mind me saying so, she is being somewhat disingenuous. Nobody is stonewalling and no one is refusing to give information.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I thought the obvious thing to do, and we may have this sooner than Deputy McDonald might think, is to wait for the audit report to be published and given to the Minister. That is logical. Otherwise, all Deputy McDonald is asking for is drip-drip and bits of information here and there,-----