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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: We have created 918 new teaching posts alone. This is an issue of-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----organisation, planning and so on.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: As I did yesterday, I again take the opportunity to recognise the hugely important and vital work carried out by medical scientists, as well as their role in respect of the functioning of our health service. They are dedicated, professional and highly committed and have been so for many years. This was particularly the case during the pandemic. There is a long-standing concern. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: We have secured public ownership of the hospital. That is the point.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: I understand the politics of the motion. I have been around now for a bit to understand the motivation behind Private Members' motions and the need to keep the Government under pressure. I fully understand that. We will deal with the motion in the manner that we as a Government see fit-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----just as you, equally, will put forward motions with a very clear political agenda behind them. We did not all come down on the last cloud. I am fully comfortable with what is happening this evening in respect of the Private Members' motion on this issue.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: The more important point is that the fundamental issue of ownership has been dealt with-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: -----in terms of the 300-year-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: With the greatest respect to Deputy Healy-Rae, when I spoke to him before the formation of the Government, his main request was that we would last five years and make no intention to undermine it in any shape or form.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: I am not a bit worried about Deputy Healy-Rae's faux bravado.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Healy-Rae knows where his bread is buttered at the end of the day when it comes to the longevity and lifespan of this particular Dáil.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: The more important point is the ownership issue has been dealt with and the guarantees are there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: I will deal with the issue on which the Deputy has focused in Leaders' Questions. I have dealt enough with the hospital today. I watched that programme. It is not good enough. The State has failed the Milne family, and Ryan and Kyle in particular, in terms of providing a proper, comprehensive education for the children that would be appropriate to their complex needs. They have applied...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: First, this has been an interesting debate. What has struck me are the attempts to sort of reverse the truth or to rename the truth and to make a declaration, which the Deputy has been making consistently, in the hope that it becomes the truth and develops into a new truism, which is that 300 years of a lease at €10 per year is somehow not ownership. It is ownership; it is public...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: Think it through in terms of the decisions. There is information and access but to what great degree? Policy has to dictate the public health system and the public health service.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: Deputy Paul Murphy asked about the stamp 2 visas. I believe these have been extended on nine occasions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: The rhetoric articulated by the Deputy suggest that the Minister is doing nothing. The Minister has extended these on nine occasions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: There comes a time when we must have some balance also in what we are doing on overall policy and frameworks, to be fair all around. I do not have the full details on Deputy Barry's question on the inquest. I will come back to the Deputy on the issue he has raised. Deputy McAuliffe asked about policing. We are working on this committee. We did not get to deal with it yesterday but at the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: There is a range of issues to be covered. First, on the draft policing, security and community safety Bill which Deputy Bacik raised, in April of last year the general scheme was published. Among the objectives, clearly, is to provide a new, more coherent governance and oversight framework to strengthen both the external oversight of An Garda Síochána, as well as its internal...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: I will revert back to the Deputy. I will engage with the Minister on that. We are all looking for a comprehensively sound database in respect of the crime statistics. Deputy Daly raised the issue of GSOC and historic inquiries. The volume of cases currently being heard by GSOC is quite considerable. As I have said previously, there has to be some balance, unfortunately, in terms of...