Results 19,301-19,320 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: No, it is not to do with ICU capacity.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: NPHET does not say that.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: There is a range of criteria. The HSE says it has ICU capacity. We are obviously concerned and will monitor that but the HSE is running the service and the last time out, we managed. We created a surge capacity when it came and our hospitals managed.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: We will have to readjust and I hope we do not get there but, if we do, we will do everything we can to protect people. There has to be balance to the debate and using language to suggest that short-term profit triumphs over everything is just propagandistic, ideological nonsense.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: Is it the case that the Opposition Deputies are saying that unemployment assistance and jobseeker's allowance should be €350?
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: Is it the case that it should be €350? We need to call a spade a spade.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: I am making the point that this is not sustainable. Carer's allowance at €350 a week could not be sustainable. If one elevates every social protection measure to €350 per week-----
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: The Deputies opposite are avoiding this all the way through. Deputy McDonald has avoided it.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Boyd Barrett would tax the imaginary whoever to fund it.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: There has to be sustainability to what we do. We have to think ahead. The whole idea of the pandemic unemployment payment was to open it up to new entrants. We did that because of the acknowledgement that there would be further restrictions imposed. We also extended it to April. It is my sense that we will have to extend beyond that until we get a vaccine. The Government has to take...
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: On the Debenhams workers, again, I am conscious of the efforts made by Mandate and others in terms of the liquidation. I am not happy with how Debenhams dealt with this. There are limitations, however, to what can be done. The Government will provide a statutory redundancy payment and will do whatever it can within its powers to get extra support for the workers where that is possible....
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: The data are being published. The data on ICUs are being published.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: Information on the case numbers is published on an ongoing basis. The NPHET letters are being published.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: I am talking about the letters-----
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: -----that were the key issue in terms of Thursday's advice and Sunday's advice. They have been published.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: Everybody should wear masks as often as they possibly can.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: The guidance is out there-----
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: -----on masks.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: There was no bank holiday date in my mind yesterday. I do not know where that came from. There was a lot more on my mind yesterday than the awarding of a bank holiday. I do not know where that came from.
- Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)
Micheál Martin: It was not in my head.