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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Doherty did not once refer to the cause of the crisis in his original contribution to this House, which we all know, because his objective is to lay all of the blame on the Government, just like the Russian ambassador did yesterday. The aim is to blame the government of the day. The key point is that we have taken a lot of measures, which Deputy Doherty has ignored and has decided...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: The cutting of tax and the increases in social protection matter. We want to now explore with the social partners how we deal with this in a comprehensive, strategic way. The one thing we cannot do, which the Deputy wants to do-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: You cannot chase inflation away month after month by €1 billion or €2 billion a month. That is not a sustainable pathway.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: What the Deputy is proposing is to create even further inflation over and above what is there-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----all with a view to pursuing electoral advantage over a crisis that has been caused by a brutal regime.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: First, I disagree with the Deputy's analysis of the Government's commitment to climate change. This Government has introduced some of the most significant climate change legislation. The targets we have set are unprecedented. They create a legal obligation on the Government and future governments, which is the first requirement. For example, we introduced the carbon tax, which gives...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: In my view, the plan that we have put forward is transformative. It details what we must do to meet this challenge in terms of reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions by 51% by 2030. I agree with the EPA that implementation is key, in terms of the urgent implementation of climate plans and policies. The sectoral emissions ceilings will be brought before the Cabinet shortly by the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: An rud is tábhachtaí, ar mo shon féin agus do gach éinne sa Teach seo, ná an fhírinne a thabhairt don tír go hiomlán agus a insint do mhuintir na tíre agus a bheith macánta leo. Is é sin a dheineas inné. It should not be astonishing, as he has said, to tell the truth. What I said yesterday was telling the truth about a new era of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2022)

Micheál Martin: Tá an t-am istigh.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: It has to be resolved but the level of service is also expanding all of the time. The level of referrals is also going up exponentially. Covid-19 without question had an impact on the number of young people contacting their primary care services and their community teams in respect of mental health issues arising out of the pandemic. This has been a feature across the health service in the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this most important issue. The issue of CAMHS and bed capacity is a serious one, particularly the decision in relation to Linn Dara and the reduction of beds there, due to a range of issues, as the Deputy has said. In the first instance, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, is working with the HSE intensively to ensure this is a temporary situation and to get...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: Some 250 new staff have been appointed to the hospital since January 2020, of whom 25 are consultants. All consultant cardiology posts are filled. I do not know whether the Deputy is equating the consultants to the pilots.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: The consultants might have an issue with that. In any event, there are a fair few pilots there and we want to do more for the hospital.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: I have been discussing this issue with the Deputy since January 2020. His issue with me, along with the other Deputies from the south east and Waterford, was to get the second cath lab up and running, and that is happening. We have to get this done step by step. The second cath lab is there. Some 24 whole-time equivalent posts-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: Hold on. Please let me finish. Some 24 whole-time equivalent posts were approved by the South/South West Hospital Group in November 2021 for the staffing of the second cath lab. Therefore, it is not without pilots. It is ridiculous to say it is without pilots.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: The start dates for two senior radiographers have been agreed. The start dates are awaited for three cardiac physiologists. Recruitment campaigns for ten staff nurse posts and two healthcare assistants are ongoing. Recruitment campaigns for the position of certified nurse midwives, CNM, 1 and 2 are ongoing. The recruitment of four administrative posts and two porters is under way through...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: I take the Deputy's point but, as she knows, before a formal invitation issues one would like to know there is a basis for it to be accepted. A lot of informal work and contact goes on all of the time between parties with a view to getting the right basis to facilitate participation in these mechanisms at the Labour Relations Commission or the Labour Court. Each year approximately half of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this very important issue and generally for his consistency in raising these issues in respect of Waterford University Hospital and the broader constituency. He referenced the national maternity hospital. That was first announced in 2013. It is now 2022. It is questionable as to whether too many walls have been gone through. It took seven years to get to a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the matter and I acknowledge the disruption being caused as a result of strike action. It is having an impact and will continue to affect patients. I do not think anybody wants that and the MLSA does not want it either, to be fair, but this is having an impact. There is a very strong desire to get this matter resolved. What has been going on through informal...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: First, the health sector management has engaged with the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association, MLSA, through the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, over the course of 2021 and, more recently, through the sectoral bargaining process under Building Momentum 2021-2022. The Public Service Agreement Group, PSAG, recommended that the parties re-engage at the WRC. That is where it has been...