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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We have a set time for questions. We have to have some regard for the rules, please. I call Deputy Naughten.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Denis Naughten: Long Covid is the title given to a range of illnesses that have left previously healthy individuals who have not recovered from Covid infections with no quality of life. These patients once led busy professional and family lives are now, but they are now in some instances bedridden, unable to eat and unable to communicate. Despite the severity of their condition, many are being denied...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue and for his long-term commitment in respect of it. He has consistently raised it in the House on a number of occasions. The Government continues to support the roll-out of a national service for long Covid. In 2022, about €2.2 million was provided for the implementation of the model of care. That trebled to €6.6 million in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: We agree with the Tánaiste. We need action because the situation is so appalling. One of the images I saw yesterday was of a small child whose parents have been lost looking after a toddler and a baby. These are appalling situations. People are being massacred in Gaza. Children with hopes and dreams for the future are being left buried under rubble. We urgently need action on this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I accept what the Deputy is saying. War crimes have been committed. I am in no doubt about that. What is happening is a shocking humanitarian catastrophe. The most immediate priority is this Friday, when the UN General Assembly will consider the question of admitting Palestine to the United Nations to enjoy the rights and the full gamut of what is available as a member. That vote and the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The time is up, Tánaiste.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----further examination of that from a legal perspective but the advice has been very strong to us.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Tánaiste is not going to call for a meeting of the European Council?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: Again, the European Council meeting is in June, I think.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: It is at the end of June.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: We will see what can happen there. The Foreign Affairs Council meeting will be held before that. We have the meeting of the UN on Friday and we will see where we go from there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Actions absolutely speak louder than words. I start by paying tribute to the very brave and committed students of Trinity College Dublin who, after five or six days of a sit-in, managed to get full boycott divestment from the Israeli state from the authorities in the university. This is a very hopeful sign in the midst of what is a desperate and hopeless situation as Israel moves to its...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: First of all, I do not rule; I am elected-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----as is everybody else in this House. We have a parliamentary democracy in this country which I respect, and I respect the views of all citizens. I am under no illusion about the strength of feeling across the entire Irish people about what is happening within Palestine, and to Palestinians in Gaza in particular. My own party has been consistently supportive of a Palestinian right to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I have not denied that the Tánaiste has said a lot. He has said a lot diplomatically and legally and about humanitarian criticism on stopping the aid to UNRWA. He has said a lot. What I am asking is what he is going to do? The question of deed is at the heart of my argument. I was a young shop steward when the Dunnes Stores strike against apartheid happened. I knew Karen Gearon and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Are 70% of nurses and midwives who work in our hospitals wrong when they say they are concerned about patient safety because of the levels of staffing? Is the outgoing president of the INMO wrong which she says that things are far worse now for patients and staff in hospitals? There are people in Australia and elsewhere who cannot come back and get a job as nurses owing to the embargo. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I made the point already that graduate nurses, qualified nurses and midwives committed to and coming through the international recruitment pipeline, emergency department, ICU, maternity and community nurses are all exempt from the recruitment pause. Recruitment of nurses has continued. That is this issue. The other point, which the Deputy did not seem to pick up on, is that expenditure...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Pearse Doherty: A system in crisis will always cost more.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: An additional €7 billion has been invested in the health service since 2020. When people say it is worse, I do not accept that because our survival rates have improved significantly over the past decade. There is room for significant improvement in certain locations. We need very rigorous examination of certain sites as to how people are deployed to get optimal outcomes and improve...