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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: That is an important point. The Government is not a business-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: We are facing the worst global energy crisis ever. It surpasses the 1970s.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: It was fundamentally brought about by the war on Ukraine; there is no question about it. The price today for United Kingdom gas on the wholesale markets is 287 pence. By the way, it was 463 pence last week.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: This day two years ago, the price-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----was 40 pence a therm.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising a very important issue that is affecting quite a number of people. I have tremendous sympathy for those suffering from long Covid. It is one of the reasons that during the height of Covid, when we had the lockdown, I was insistent on taking strong measures. It was not just about mortality. This was a deadly disease. When a person got Covid, it could lead to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: I do not disagree with the Deputy. There were clinics on HSE sites that were operational before the model of care was rolled out. The intention is to align all of them towards a national service. It is intended that the interim model of care will be expanded to put in place eight post-acute Covid clinics and six long Covid clinics within hospital groups nationwide. Additional aspects of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: I gave the Deputy specifics on beds-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: I gave you specifics on ICU and home care hours-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: I gave you specifics on a whole range of issues in terms of preparing and upgrading the health service. The number of college places has been expanded for all of the professions over the past two years. The Deputy cannot just shake her head. They have been increased-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----and in terms of career progression. The winter preparedness plan has adopted a bottom-up approach. It has gone to every hospital group and local plans have been sought. Sanction has being given to hire emergency consultants if the groups so wish. In the plans that have come from the various hospital groups, flexibility will be applied in sanctioning the teams they want to hire. As...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: I will first say that the health system went through very tough times during Covid-19, as we all realise. I have long articulated my admiration for all those who worked on the front line during the various stages of Covid. We saw on our television screens the enormous challenges and pressures that Covid put on our health system. Our health system proved itself resilient in the face of an...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: I gave the Deputy specifics.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: Who made this up for the Deputy? The Government decision is clear. Anybody will be able to retire at 66 under the Government decision, just as they can do so today. Does the Deputy not get that?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: Deputy McDonald is deliberately not telling the truth on this one, it seems to me, in respect of the age and the deferral. She moves to the Trojan horse - I do not who made it up-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: I have addressed it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: The core issue is the age, which is 66. As for the second issue to which the Deputy referred, she said we all want to facilitate people who want choice and who might wish to stay working.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: That is what the Government is doing. It will facilitate people who may want to defer whatever they want to do.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: The full pension will be available to people at 66. That is the Government decision - no question about it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy has an obligation to the public watching in to be faithful in how she describes the decision the Government is taking.