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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Brian Stanley: I raise the problem people around the State have in accessing a GP or getting a GP to take them on. It is even more difficult for people who do not have a medical card. It is a huge problem. There is a shortage of locum doctors, which leads to problems for some GPs trying to take holidays or leave. The emergency departments of hospitals are clogged up with people who should be seen in a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: The question is?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Cian O'Callaghan: Well, if the Taoiseach were listening, the question was whether is he going to act-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: Am I going to-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Cian O'Callaghan: -----to ensure all supermarket chains have to declare their profits in full detail.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: First of all, I say to the Deputy that he has a tremendous habit of asserting what I said earlier, which of course I did not say at all.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Jennifer Whitmore: How would you know? You were not listening.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I did not rattle off any figures when I was answering Deputy McDonald.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: Yes, you did.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: You can hear him on the record.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I did not. What I said was, I outlined what TASC, the Think-tank for Action on Social Change, said in its publication today. That is not rattling off figures. It basically said that the short-term, once-off cost-of-living packages that we introduced had a very significant impact in helping people to deal with what has been the worst inflationary spiral since the 1970s, which we had after...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Rory Hearne: Not true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----but they still did not go to meet the enormity of the increases people experienced at the time. Do not say I just rattled off figures. I did not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Louise O'Reilly: You did.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I then went on to say that we had extended the VAT reduction to 9%, which we did. That is not rattling off figures. That is a fact, which has had some impact. I mentioned free-of-charge HRT coming in on 1 June.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Mary Lou McDonald: HRT is not a grocery.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Micheál Martin: I mentioned the extension of the free schoolbooks scheme to all students. If you have one income coming in, we all know that every September and every summer, schoolbooks, going back to school and the cost of schoolbooks was the bane of most parents' lives. That is gone, eliminated. The Deputies did not have the good grace to acknowledge that. I do not expect any acknowledgement, but they...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: First, I should reassure the Taoiseach and any school staff watching that of course I was using the word "released" in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek fashion. Our schools are generally very happy places, children are generally very happy to receive an education and we have excellent school staff across the country. On a more serious note, what I am hearing from the Taoiseach and his...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Verona Murphy: The Taoiseach to respond.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)
Ivana Bacik: -----and the LDA and a State-----