Results 14,361-14,380 of 51,063 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- 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-----
- 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.