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Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: We are where we are in terms of ownership, voluntary hospitals and so on, which is historical. The idea was to co-locate a maternity hospital with a neonatal centre of excellence, adjacent to a tertiary hospital. That is what gave rise to Holles Street teaming up with St. Vincent’s hospital into the future.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Micheál Martin: We are where we are in terms of the recruitment processes. There will be close to 800 people recruited for contact tracing. Testing and contact tracing are connected. We are testing more than we ever tested.

Northern Ireland: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Micheál Martin: Even the DUP and Sinn Féin would have attacked me three years ago for pointing this out. I regret we are where we are in this regard.

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2017)

Micheál Martin: ...in public transport, including railways, will be essential if we are to meet the climate change targets we have set. That is the policy background to today's industrial dispute. I argue that we are where we are because of a lack of proactivity on the part of the Minister and his lack of empathy towards the idea behind public transport. Given his public utterances during the years, he...

Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2016)

Micheál Martin: ...it very late in terms of the consultation and the publication of the amendments. They have to be in by 1 p.m. today. It is important to have engagement and consultation. It is incredible that we are where we are, in terms of proposals of this gravity and importance, in the last Dáil sitting week of the year. We are here and we do not want to render tenants more vulnerable now that...

Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2016)

Micheál Martin: ...paralysis and indecision on the appointment of gardaí to very senior and sensitive positions. It is damaging to the force and further compounds already serious issues pertaining to the Garda Síochána. Will the Taoiseach explain why we are where we are regarding the failure to appoint these people to vacant positions at senior level?

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)

Micheál Martin: .... The key point I made to the Tánaiste yesterday was that this needs to be comprehensively and transparently addressed; it cannot be left as it is. I accept it is entirely unsatisfactory we are where we are now but we are where we are. It may be uncomfortable for people but there are some stark realities emanating from this. As I said yesterday, it goes to the core of how...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Jul 2014)

Micheál Martin: ...When things go wrong, the Governments are asked to come in quickly. Then, they are asked to go away again because the parties reckon they will sort it out. However, it has not been. That is the problem and we are where we are coming up to 12 July, which is concerning. I am pleased that the Northern Ireland Executive has come out with its statement, but we could have done without the...