Results 181-200 of 51,063 for speaker:Micheál Martin

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: Sorry, Deputy McDonald, why is what I said pathetic?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy has not spoken to me about this case before now. Perhaps he can send the details to me. I am not clear whether the local authority has been approached in respect of this case and whether Jennifer was on the social housing list. It should be very possible to accommodate an 88-year-old in a council house. I do not know the background but it seems to me there is an obvious solution.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue, which he has raised with me previously. I certainly am open to doing as he proposed. The Government would be very positively disposed to working on such a proposal.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this very important issue. I fully subscribe to his analysis of the importance of this programme. I will liaise with the Minister for Health, who is sitting beside me, and other Ministers to see whether we can free up some resources to commence the development of a team in the midlands.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: First, I did not strip Monaghan hospital of anything. It was the North Eastern Health Board that was in place at the time.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin had members on it. I cannot believe in one sense that the Deputy is back again at this-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: The thing that should unite us all is the safety of patients and the people who go through our hospitals.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: Anybody who knows anything about emergency care knows the first thing to get right is the first response. We have dramatically transformed the quality of first responses in this country over the past 20-odd years. That is the first point.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: Second, the quality of healthcare is key to any patient.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: What is very important is that the right care is made available at the right time for the patient to guarantee the best outcome.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy wants to go back to worst outcomes and an era when we had very deficient medicine.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I would need the full background details. The ratio could be high in some classes but not in the entirety of the school in terms of how it organises its numbers. The Deputy indicated the numbers are declining in both schools. A question arises as to whether that is a permanent feature of the area. There are different approaches one can make to the Department in respect of whether it is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy said 70% of services trade with Israel.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Bill only affects the occupied territories so I think the Deputy is conflating two different things there. The Tánaiste has asked the Attorney General for legal advice in respect of services. Obviously, there is a clear difference between services and goods in terms of tracking, tracing and manageability. It is quite a good Bill in terms of linking it to the customs legislation,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----in terms of asking if the European Union is compliant with the ICJ opinion in respect of the illegally occupied territories, and then the EU-Israel association agreement, where we are also pushing strongly.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: First of all, I would like to point out that the European Union is the single greatest donor to Palestine. It is an important point, although it never gets said.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: In real terms, the most effective contributor now to Gaza is the European Union.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: I am not happy with the fact that we cannot get unanimity across the 27 EU member states.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: To abolish or put into abeyance the EU-Israel association agreement would require unanimity among the 27, and the Deputy knows that. About ten members-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Micheál Martin: We have asked for a review. We asked over a year ago for a review. There may be opportunities to suspend elements of that agreement that would not require unanimity. That is being pursued by Ireland and other like-minded states in respect of this. The Deputy knows that countries like Germany, Hungary, Czechia and others have a long-standing historic position of support for Israel. I...