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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: I know, but there are injury units in the mid-west and they are going to be expanded. The Deputy is right. To me, that is elementary and should be pursued. There is also the alternative pre-hospital pathway that has been developed since September of this year between the UL Hospitals Group and the National Ambulance Service, which will see definitive care provided in the community to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: I was 12 years of age in 1972, when the referendum on joining the European community took place. Parties across here opposed it at the time. There were groups, which are still at it today, arguing that if we joined what is now the European Union, we would have NATO troops and nuclear warheads parading down O'Connell Street within a few weeks. This is what was said as far back as 1972 and I...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: Because of their geopolitical ambition and agenda, they do not want peacekeeping missions around the world any more. We know where the world is today. It took six weeks-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: The alternative is we stay consistent to fundamental human rights and the UN Charter. The UN Charter mentions regional actors; the EU or the African Union are bona fide actors. We should not just react-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: -----in a knee-jerk way to what I proposed yesterday in terms of amendments. We should have reasonable debate but there seems to be an inability in this House to have a reasonable debate about these matters and false hares get sent up the field.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: I excuse you from that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: There are two issues. The first is the financial issue and the second is the security and intelligence service. The Deputy is suggesting it should be an Irish citizen who takes the job, which I will come back to. I understand the concerns he has articulated about the fast-accrual pension scheme, which applies to An Garda Síochána, and the limit on pension funds, which has been...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: It applies to all aspects of the public and private sector, but particularly to the public service at a given stage, especially where there are fast-accrual pension systems. I will revert to the Ministers for Finance and Justice on the issues.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: You are. That is exactly what you are saying. We know the-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: Through the Chair, I think-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, when you say, "can we do it through the Chair", I have been doing it consistently through the Chair.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: I have been interrupted repeatedly by Deputy Doherty------
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: -----and this has happened every week now. This is happening every week.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: I believe-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: I want to make the point-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: I believe there is something morally wrong with the fact that an authoritarian and aggressive neo-imperialist power has a de factoveto on elements of how we as an independent Republic react to any given situation. That is the fundamental truth of where we are today. They invaded Ukraine, they violated the UN Charter and the Deputy is saying that they should have a veto over how, when and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: That is the essence of the Sinn Féin policy, which I reject and oppose. Finally-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: -----anything we do-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: Anything we do-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)
Micheál Martin: Anything we do will be utterly consistent with the UN Charter and the upholding of UN fundamental rights.