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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----and disadvantage the State. I am very clear that we need to complete this hospital and to create a first-class facility. We also acknowledge the work done in Tallaght and the paediatric outpatient and emergency centre that was opened there as part of this project. By November 2021 it would address up to 17,000 outpatient and 25,000 emergency attendances alone. The facility at...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----approved €1.433 billion has been drawn down to date. It is a live contract and I am not going to prejudice the enforcement of that existing contract by getting into a decision about cost, hypothetical or otherwise, at this particular time. I do not think that would be advantageous to the taxpayer. I visited the hospital recently on 17 November. Substantial progress has been...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----and this is something that we need to complete as quickly as we can.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Schemes (30 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: My Department does not have any such schemes or programmes under its remit.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: The key is to get more social houses built. I think we will have a record number of social houses provided this year between build, lease and acquisition.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: I know, but we will do whatever we can there. Deputy Cathal Crowe referred to jobs for Ukrainian refugees earlier. I did not have the chance to respond but I will take the matter up now. I do think we should move faster. In some cases, the qualifications authorities are working to accelerate people being enabled to work in certain professions. The Deputy also referred to aircraft...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: The general scheme of the human tissue Bill has been agreed by the Cabinet.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- COP27: Statements (29 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: We meet at a critical moment. This year alone, we have witnessed record temperatures, wildfires, calamitous floods, and prolonged droughts across the world. Populations are on the move because, before our eyes, parts of our world are becoming less amenable to human habitation. On every continent of the planet, our people are living with the reality of climate change. I am particularly...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: Deputy O'Rourke raised the issue of femicide and the broader issue of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. A great deal of progress has been made on that matter under the Cabinet social affairs committee and the work of the Ministers for Justice and Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputies McEntee and O'Gorman, respectively. Various reports on this issue are...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: First, Deputy O'Rourke referred to direct provision and the targets. It is going to be extremely challenging now. It is 2022 and many people in direct provision are in a position where they are now legally resident in the State and can leave direct provision if they wish, but they are staying in it at the moment. Obviously, the wider housing issue is probably a factor in that but it is a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: This was an unprovoked war by Russia on Ukraine that nobody wanted. Many countries that are members of NATO spoke to Putin and asked him to stop and not to do it, including President Macron and Chancellor Scholz. I do not know why the Deputies are so anti-Ukraine but they are anti-Ukraine. It is very clear-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: I am answering. This is how I am answering the question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: I am answering the question, if the Deputy would leave me, but he does not like what I am saying. The Deputy boycotted the one minute silence on the Holodomor.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputies opposite deliberately boycotted that event today-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----and I will say that in respect of the allegations the Deputy has made, this country is not a member of NATO.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: I am answering the question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: We have never participated in any military campaign with NATO-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: I was not up in Kilworth eavesdropping on what they were doing but I was in Lebanon.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Micheál Martin: Who were we with in Lebanon? Ireland was with the Polish army.