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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: He seems to think that it is okay to give any kind of work to nursing students, irrespective of the fact that they are on a learning programme. I said about the case that he raised in the Dáil yesterday that it should be forwarded to the HSE as a complaint, because it represents abuse and exploitation of that student nurse. I ask him to send that to the HSE because it should be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: The case that Deputy Murphy raised yesterday should be sent and I do not know if he sent it or not. Has he?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy should have sent it already.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: He should have sought it by now because it is a terrible thing to do. Deputy Barry has advisers and gets remuneration, as his party does, from taxpayers' money as well.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: It seems to me that the only party that is stepping up to the plate with regard to retail is the State and the Government, through the Social Insurance Fund and statutory redundancy. The Deputy never says that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: I appeal to the Deputies not to lead people up another hill. They are great at doing that but they are short on solutions for workers.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: That is why I am talking about the Arcadia Group. I am not responsible for a British retail unit that decides it is going into liquidation. We will do everything we can to support the workers.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: And I will answer it. That review is under way, as I have said. The objective is to get it completed before the end of the year. The key point is that the Government and State will step up to the plate with regard to our obligations for all redundancies.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: We are not responsible for every decision made by companies outside the State.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 10, 11 and 12 together. My Department has been working across Government to integrate data and insights relevant to the management of the Covid-19 pandemic since it began. The Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC, and Department of Health have provided a great deal of data through the Covid-19 data hub. In addition, economic and other data are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: In response to Deputy Kelly, to his credit, the system was introduced by the Labour Party back in-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: It was, actually. The whole of idea of a separate office of the Tánaiste at the time was-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: I have no objection to it. I think it makes sense in terms of-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: Where there are parties with different perspectives in government, and this is a three-party coalition Government, there is a need to make sure that the policy programme, as per the programme for Government, and the perspectives of parties are brought through. In respect of the offices that have been established for the leader of the Green Party and the Tánaiste, that makes sense in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: Hear me out, please. It is also in terms of the person's former capacity as an adviser, when I was Minister for Health and Children. There is also a unit within the Department that has been dealing specifically with Covid, even before I came into the office, and it is being dealt with at a very high level within the Department. Obviously, NPHET provides public health advice to me and to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: We, have actually. An investigation is being established, and the Minister is making sure. I do not know whether the Deputy submitted his testimonies for investigation.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: No, I think the investigation should happen because exploitation should not be tolerated and student nurses should not be abused and exploited. They should not be exploited, and any exploitation that takes place, I genuinely believe, should be investigated. If the Deputy has evidence of that, and I have no doubt he may have, it should be forwarded to the authorities. We will protect the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: The old culture, and old habits, die hard. The whole transformation of nurse education is not something we should just erode and then happily go along with that, which is what the Deputy is really suggesting. He has not dealt with that question at all in any of his comments on this to date. I have to say that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy’s speech back in 2016 meant, and People Before Profit’s position was, that the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, should be repealed in their entirety. If FEMPI was repealed in its entirety, it would have meant that with regard to the pension reversals to which Deputies Boyd Barrett and Paul Murphy referred, those people would have got their...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (9 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: No, we cannot actually do that without undermining the entire edifice. That is the point.