Results 15,041-15,060 of 50,297 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: It has had an extraordinary impact, along with the cyberattack. Both have had a huge pressurising impact on people working on the front line. The degree to which the cyberattack impacted on many clinicians in the aftermath of the high point of Covid is not widely appreciated. Access to data, records and so forth was undermined by the cyberattack. That said, I want to make clear to the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: There is funding this year to hire a further 8,000 full-time permanent staff in 2022. That is a significant resource. We need to accelerate the HR side of this in terms of recruitment, but the funding is there to recruit additional staff. That applies across the country, including in Tralee. Additional funding has been allocated to the national clinical programmes. In terms of staffing,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: Action will be taken. The HSE has confirmed to me that the resources are in place to deal with some of the issues raised by the Deputy, including staff recruitment and measures to alleviate pressures on emergency departments. Presentations to our hospitals are higher than the 2019 levels. We are maintaining the full range of activities, in addition to the Covid issues. Hospitals are under...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: Hear me out, please. The HSE has mechanisms that it can deploy to hospitals if there are issues around governance, which is what the Deputy seems to be implying. I do not know if that is the point he is making in regard to the external review. The HSE has at its disposal units and mechanism to make sure that issues like this are rectified.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: It is all for political ends and electoral ends. Every time the Deputy does it, I will stop her in her tracks and say, "Stop peddling disinformation." I did not design any scheme and you know that-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----and you should acknowledge that, through the Chair. You should acknowledge that and keep to the truth.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: The last scheme was prepared in good faith by the last Government-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----which was welcomed by Sinn Féin at the time. The scheme has to change. The residents that I met put very good issues to me at the time regarding upfront costs in terms of rental if they were out of their homes when the houses were being refurbished, but also certification so that if there was remedial work done and something happened in ten or 15 years' time, they would be...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----between the owners and the Minister. The Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, will come to the party leaders and the Government will then take a decision on that and share that with the House.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: It depends on how the Deputy defines "night club".
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: First of all, Deputy, I have to state that there are 464 people in hospital this morning. There are 74 in intensive care. My central objective and that of the Government is to protect lives and protect people's health. That has to be central to our consideration above and beyond anything. This is not giving out to anybody or criticising anybody, but it has to be central and it has to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: We have asked it. The Minister for Health has written to NIAC in respect of healthcare workers because we do accept the Deputy's points.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: I think the Deputy has raised a fair point in terms of ventilation. Guidance has issued in respect of ventilation in our schools, which resulted in CO2 monitors being provided to schools across the length and breadth of the country. Close to 90% of over-12s in the population have been vaccinated. The vaccines are very effective against severe illness, hospitalisation, death and...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: I checked with officials in my office before coming here and my office was not aware that an invitation had been issued to me to meet the group today. The Deputy should not politicise the issue in the way she did. I will meet groups and I went to Donegal and met homeowners. No party in this House has a monopoly on empathy and the Deputy does not either. Sinn Féin did not make this an...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: You and Deputy Mac Lochlainn thought it was okay so let us not be all self-righteous, coming in and saying that you are the great guardian and defender. You are recreating the narrative.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: I do not want to get into a political spat about this. I accept the genuine views of everybody in this House and I accept that they want this issue resolved for the residents involved. This situation has far-reaching implications nationally as well. Other counties are manifesting mica problems also and the Government has to take all those implications on board. The action we take on mica...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: I did not design any scheme.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: It is extremely important that the Deputy does not continually present misinformation to the House. She just said that I designed a scheme; I designed no scheme.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: The last Government designed the scheme.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2021)
Micheál Martin: No, because we were not in government. The Deputy keeps pedalling untruth, fake news and populism.