Results 41-60 of 45,774 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----including 46 more consultants, 97 more non-consultant hospital doctors and 348 more nurses. I gave actual figures on real people who have been recruited to work in University Hospital Waterford, and rightly so. It is a great hospital, one of the better performing hospitals in the country.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: We need to continue to resource the hospital and broaden services.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy knows that the elephant in the room, which he has not referenced, is clinical decision-making, national clinical standards and so on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy knows the background of everything to do with the cath lab issue.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: To be fair to the Minister of State, Deputy Mary Butler, she has fought for this tenaciously. I have to give her credit. It resulted in a second cath lab being put in place, the extension of the hours and the additional staff to staff it. We will keep at it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: As I said earlier, housing is the most important issue facing this country and our people. We have to focus on policies that will increase the number of houses we can build every year. This will also increase the number of houses that are available to the rental market. What the Deputy has put forward would, I suggest, depress the number of houses available to the rental market and lead to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: Again, I say to the Deputy, everything or the majority of what she has outlined there or some of what she has suggested would reduce supply of houses, which is about curtailing the market or restricting.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: We do not have to do this as we have already curtailed the bulk purchasing of property through the planning laws and through a stamp duty.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is working.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: It is working, despite all of the Deputy's spin-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----and the evidence is there in that the vast majority of house purchases-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: ----in the country are by citizens and individuals. We have had the highest number of first-time buyers in years on an ongoing basis. What does that tell the Deputy? It tells us that affordability is improving-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----for quite a number of first-time buyers. We doubled the number of affordable homes this year and we will continue to increase the direct intervention by the State. This is not spin, because Housing for All is a fairly substantial document. It has been updated, and so forth and there are quarterly reports.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: I have seen no other substantive document from any party saying how we are going to get to building 40,000 or 50,000 houses per annum. We can all pluck figures out of the air but we need an actual programme and clear policy platform as to how one gets more houses built-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----and how one gets more houses into the private rental market. I would suggest the Deputy's policies would take more houses out of the private rental market.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: Which party is that?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: There are different constituent parts to it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Shanahan has an undue paranoia of Cork hurling.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: No I am not. Deputy Shanahan seems obsessed with senior hurling and Cork. We will park that for a moment. Since this Government came into office, there has been a very focused prioritisation and commitment to the south east on a whole range of investments. At different times when I have engaged with the Deputy, he has acknowledged that, particularly with regard to health. Then, every...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)
Micheál Martin: When I mentioned October, it was in reference to the task force that was put together, came together and developed a cross-sectoral plan. That was what I referenced. The Deputy keeps saying nothing is being done-----