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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...

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

Micheál Martin: That is why we want to get this resolved. We believe it can be if we can get a proper basis for engagement with the WRC or the Labour Court.

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

Micheál Martin: Tá ról faoi leith ag na heolaithe leighis sa chóras sláinte. Bhí an ról sin soiléir le linn na paindéime. Admhaím go bhfuil ceist ann agus go bhfuil siad ag lorg parity idir iad féin agus na clinical biochemists le fada an lá anois. Is í an chaoi is fearr chun na ceisteanna seo a réiteach ná trí cainteanna laistigh...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Records (24 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: Circulars are written statements that provide information and guidelines to departments and public bodies on laws and procedures. Civil Service circulars are in the main published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and mainly provide guidance and information covering Civil Service finance and human resources policy. My Department's corporate functions are guided by all...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Investigations (24 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: My Department has not commissioned any investigations, internal or external, into instances in which Departmental documents or Departmental information was leaked to the media during the period in question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputies for raising these issues. Deputy Ó Laoghaire asked about the issue of childcare. In the last budget, very significant additional funding was allocated for childcare with a focus on enhancing pay and conditions for those working in the area. Discussions are to take place between employers in the childcare area and representatives of workers with a view to reaching...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: The articles in the lease are not in any sense an imposition on the State, nor could they be described as such whatsoever.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: We are where we are in terms of ownership, voluntary hospitals and so on, which is historical. The idea was to co-locate a maternity hospital with a neonatal centre of excellence, adjacent to a tertiary hospital. That is what gave rise to Holles Street teaming up with St. Vincent’s hospital into the future.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: We are looking forward to, I hope, working with city deals and regional enterprise parks in the north west, between Derry and Donegal, to be funded through the shared island initiative. The all-island economy has done very well and is doing quite well under the protocol. The protocol has proved to be advantageous for Northern Ireland and we are very anxious to maintain that economic...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 17 to 20, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality oversees implementation of the programme for Government commitments in the areas of social policy, including sport, equality, arts and culture, as well as children and youth affairs and public services, including matters relating to justice, policing reform and community...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Durkan and a number of Deputies raised the issue of the British Government decision yesterday and announcement of an intention to bring in legislation to circumvent and undermine the protocol. That is unacceptable. I made it very clear that unilateral action is not the way to progress issues pertaining to the protocol. We have always accepted that legitimate issues have been raised...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: Often an aspect of the war that is missed is the number of Russian citizens who have raised concerns about this war and who have been jailed for, literally, voicing dissent against the Russian Federation Government. It is quite shocking in terms of the anti-democratic impulse now going through Russia. On Deputy Tóibín's question, first of all, action will be taken against...