Results 13,441-13,460 of 50,151 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I am a bit confused because last October Deputy McDonald's party increased the pension age in Northern Ireland from 65 years to 66 years. We do have an open mind-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: ----on the report of the pensions commission and the Oireachtas committee. We will examine that report in conjunction with the Commission on Taxation and Welfare.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Bill is very progressive legislation. I would have to examine the detail obviously but I am generally supportive of the spirit of the legislation and what the Deputy is endeavouring to achieve.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Government is constantly looking at charges, particularly in the health area. The Deputy will know that in the budget we reduced inpatient paediatric charges and the threshold for the drug payment scheme. We will consistently and on an ongoing basis continue to look at charges. We will take the Social Democrats motion into account.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: As Taoiseach, I would rarely intervene in decisions An Bord Pleanála has to make. I never do, in any event, as a public representative. The Government policy statement, which was approved and published on 18 May 2021, sets out that the Government does not support the importation of LNG fracked gas. That is the policy statement on the importation of fracked gas. The Deputy is probably...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy's question would take too long to answer.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Clonakilty is a beautiful and delightful west Cork town with a wonderful quality of life. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan has been raising this issue with me for some months now and has outlined and articulated the problem. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, is also engaging with Irish Water on this issue, which seems to be a different scheme from the one...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate the Deputy's interest in this issue. It is not the intention of the Government to downgrade the Dean Maxwell unit. There have been various proposals brought forward, as the Deputy knows. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, will meet senior HSE staff and Department of Health officials tomorrow to discuss these issues. I ask that she come back to the Deputy and other...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I will come back to the Deputy on that. I will have a look at this. The issue came to my attention last evening. There are obviously a number of perspectives on this in terms of the environment, clean air and other issues as well. I will examine the matter in full. I have not yet had an opportunity to do so. I will come back to the Deputy. I just want to give him time to catch his...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: About six Bills have already been passed to protect tenants' rights generally. In particular, the Tyrrelstown amendment provides that where a landlord proposes to sell ten or more units in a single development at the same time, that sale is subject to the existing tenants remaining in situ, other than in exceptional circumstances. The Deputy, to be fair to him, has raised the situation in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The constitutional framework does restrict. It was possible during Covid because of lockdown and the 5 km rule. The legal advice was that in that context, in a lockdown scenario, one could do it but one could not do it outside of that where people could move to get alternative accommodation. When people were restricted to the 5 km rule the legal judgment was made that we could freeze...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I know that. I am trying to give an honest answer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: There are always constraints on the Legislature because we have a written Constitution. That is why we live in the kind of democracy that we do. We are one of the few countries that have a written Constitution, which is a limitation on the Executive and the Oireachtas.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: We have the power through constitutional amendment if we so wish.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: It is not an issue. Deputy McDonald should ask herself the question, why has the Cappagh request not been facilitated?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Why has it not been facilitated?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: That is the question she should ask herself.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Why has it not been facilitated? Why have the authorities not facilitated it? The funding has been given to the HSE. We have said to the HSE and to everybody who listens, in terms of hospital capacity-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----to deliver any additional beds or capacity that they can-----