Results 1,101-1,120 of 49,960 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Admhaím go bhfuil brú ar na seirbhísí éigeandála, go háirithe ar na hospidéil. Bhí sé sin le feiscint ar Lá Fhéile Bríde agus an deireadh seachtaine sin. Níl sé sásúil agus tá sé sin ráite ag an Aire Sláinte. I acknowledge first of all the very significant challenges facing emergency...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: There have been some successes on that front.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Some hospitals, like Waterford, Tullamore and Connolly, for example, had zero or low trolley numbers as well. There is therefore a management issue as well as one of resources.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: We need an increase in resources and we have been recruiting extensively. Funding has been allocated for further recruitment of staff this year, especially medical staff, nurses and allied healthcare professionals. These are issues we need to discuss and engage on with hospital management and representative bodies. It is not just about increases and increases on their own. We have to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: First of all, there is ongoing recruitment. There are now 25,000 more people working in the health service since 2020. That includes nurses and consultants. The number of consultants employed in our health service has gone up 42%. We are continuing to recruit, there is ongoing recruitment and funding was put into the Estimates for additional numbers in 2025. However, the attendances are...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Is léir ó 2020 amach go bhfuil dul chun cinn le feiscint ó thaobh cúrsaí tithíochta. Tá an-chuid déanta againn ach is léir maraon leis sin nach bhfuil dóthain déanta againn agus go bhfuil i bhfad níos mó le déanamh sna míonna agus na blianta atá romhainn. An tuairim atá agam féin ná go bhfuil an...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I will contrast that with Sinn Féin's position. I acknowledge all the challenges and the pricing and so on, but the bottom line is that our schemes have helped an enormous number of first-time buyers. The help-to-buy scheme has seen about 51,000 approvals. Sinn Féin opposed it and proposed to abolish it. As regards the first home scheme, likewise, over 3,000 homes have been...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Those are the facts, and people made decisions based on that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: That does not get away, however, from the need to get to 50,000 houses per annum, as the ESRI indicates are required, given our population growth. The focus has to be on initiatives that make that happen. Deputy McDonald mentioned O'Devaney Gardens. I accept that those prices are high, but they are being heavily subsidised as it is by the State, so the Deputy cannot have it both ways.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: The entire intervention in housing at the moment-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: This is now repeatedly happening, a Cheann Comhairle - repeated heckling and interventions by Sinn Féin-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----every time I speak on Leaders' Questions. Those sorts of intimidatory tactics and attempts to disrupt must be stopped.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Well, I am just making a point-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and I am not going to take it without making the point. Deputy Ó Broin seems to be aspiring to be the leader of Sinn Féin or something. I do not know-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----but he is constantly interrupting on these matters. As regards other initiatives we will take-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----we outlined those yesterday in the aftermath of the Cabinet subcommittee-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----on housing, which we held on Monday.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: State Bodies (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: There have not been any overspends of €500,000 or more on any projects undertaken or commissioned by the Department of the Taoiseach or the National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO) - the only body under the aegis of the Department - within the past five years. All procurement within the Department of the Taoiseach and NESDO is conducted in accordance with applicable...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (19 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Department of the Taoiseach’s Blended Working Policy provides a procedure for Departmental staff in eligible posts to apply for blended working arrangements. In the case of fulltime employees, the Policy provides for a minimum attendance of three days per week in the office; one of which should be a team anchor day. Business needs may require attendance in the office for more than...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (18 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Tax relief? You are all against tax relief.