Results 13,521-13,540 of 50,213 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- 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-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----in the shortest time possible. There was €600 million given last year for the winter initiative and 800 extra beds were provided last year. Funding is not an excuse any longer. Record sums of money have been given to the HSE and to CHI. They should get on with it and get it done.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I have told them that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: No, I do not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: What you are doing-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: No, no. Again, I have noticed that this is-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, if I may. This is a recurring feature of Leader's Questions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: There is an open mic with the Deputy. I do not have that facility when other Deputies are speaking and I do not interrupt. This is a regular occurrence and I have to bring it to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's attention.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: It is disrupting. It is deliberately premiditated recently.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line and what I am saying to the Deputy is-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I have given the answers.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, there is a regular open mic every day now-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: This is every day.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I just want to make-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Caithfear é-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: First, I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. As a former member of Government, Deputy Howlin realises the enormous issue facing society because we are living longer, which is a good thing. In the last 50 years, the transformation of health has been extraordinary. In the last 100 years the average life span has increased by 25 years in this country, which is quite a dramatic...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Well, increases, basically, let us be honest here.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: That is what all the parties in the House have signed up for, it seems, if that is what is in the report. I understand, by the way, why that would be a recommendation. The Cabinet committee will look at this after the publication of the report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare. We said we would look at the pensions issue six months after we got the Commission on Pensions report,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Yes, I know. When I was in opposition the last time, the only committee that did its work honourably, or at least the majority did, was the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Action. It made recommendations that were not palatable electorally but Oireachtas committees are not often disposed to making recommendations that are electorally unpalatable. That said, I will read the report and...