Results 15,421-15,440 of 50,294 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: The investment will be provided and we are committed to it. I will get the details for the Deputy in that regard. I thought the Deputy said there was an issue with the planning application being submitted. Is that the case?
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: I just did not catch the first part of the Deputy’s question.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: There is no issue with fully vaccinated citizens in the North in terms of the validity of the certificates they already have. There is no issue there.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: I do not believe any child with ASD should be expelled from schools. Children and young people with autism should be supported and the necessary supports should be provided to facilitate their continued participation in education in an appropriate setting. It may emerge, sometimes, that a setting may not be the most appropriate, depending on where the child is on the autism spectrum. All...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue, will give consideration to this report. There was a working group on this issue. Prescribing is a serious matter, so obviously the Minister and the Department will have to give due consideration to the report. It is the intention of the Minister to work on the recommendations. If the Deputy engages with the Minister,...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is probably in touch with the HSE in the mid-west. Extensive resources have been provided to the health service this year. They are unprecedented in scale and involve primary care, community-based care, diagnostics and acute care. There have been challenges in the mid-west, particularly in University Hospital Limerick. There is no doubt about that. The HSE is conscious of that...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: I have not seen it. I have spoken to the Minister about this. CO2monitors are important and the Minister is committed to providing them to schools. That is it.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate the motivation and intention of the Deputy in this regard. Generally speaking, the response has been very positive in respect of applications for the Janssen vaccines at community pharmacies. That is the feedback we are receiving. There has always been a difficulty in endeavouring to differentiate between one sector or group and another. The key issue here is that the...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: I regret the degree to which the Deputy has personalised this against the Minister of State, Senator Hackett. It is all wrong to refer to her destroying Irish forests. The Deputy should really cop on.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Minister of State is doing the opposite. She wants to facilitate, streamline and get things moving in forestry. However, there has been a situation going on for quite a while, as the Deputy knows, because of objections that happened prior to the legislation being passed last year. We are very conscious that we need to move fast to get more houses felled, sorry, trees felled and new...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy knows that a huge number of additional staff have been allocated to the Department in that respect, including ecologists, forestry inspectors and administrative staff.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: The last three months of 2020 were the highest months for licence output, with approximately 900 new licences issued. Licences for a felling volume of some 2 million tonnes issued in that time, which was 40% of the output for the year. There are improvements happening but they need to happen more quickly.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: A total of 1,700 licences have issued so far this year-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----and the output is increasing week by week.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: Through the Chair, is the Deputy comparing Belarus to Ireland?
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: I asked the question through the Chair-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: -----because there was a reference made to civil disobedience. I accept the Deputy's clarification. It is an important clarification because, obviously, we are not, in any shape or form, comparable to the Lukashenko regime. In terms of the Parliament, we want to achieve a balance here. There are people arguing for more liberation and saying we are closing down too much and have not opened...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: On the other hand, we have to work through the public health advice we receive. It is in order to try to implement that public health advice in the context of facilitating the reopening of hospitality, and trying to get a balance in all of that, that the legislation is coming forward. That is what we are endeavouring to do.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy has outlined what is a very significant issue. It goes back, as he knows, to the United States applying a 25% tariff on steel originating from third countries back in 2018 and the European Union responding in terms of its market. This has been exacerbated by Brexit, with the UK becoming a third country since 1 January and being subject to EU safeguard measures. The measures that...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)
Micheál Martin: In that regard, officials in the Tánaiste's Department have routinely raised the issue with Commission officials-----