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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: This Government has invested very significantly in Waterford. The €170 million for the North Quays' development is transformative in the heart of the city. I am delighted with that. The Deputy has to acknowledge the establishment of the South East Technological University, SETU. Lately, there has been great news about the veterinary college at Kildalton, the pharmacy school now...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Matt Shanahan: The Tánaiste's ability to extol a narrative that does not exist knows no bounds. When people go to bed at night in Cork, they have no worries about heart attack access. However, when people go to bed in Waterford and the south east, they have significant worries, particularly those who have ongoing cardiac issues. In the last three months, three friends of mine have ended up in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy has to acknowledge that in all of these matters of cardiac care and so on, the clinicians set the standards. This was agreed by most parties about 20-odd years ago, when there were political rows all over the place about where various services were to be located. The idea of national strategies in cancer and cardiovascular were developed, which have had the kind of huge impacts I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Will the Tánaiste address why the extra positions were in the HSE embargo?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: I am doing so. I am trying to make the point that we have gone back to clinicians to say that we need to do this differently in Waterford, with the result that 90% coverage will be achieved with the provision of the second CAT lab and the extra staffing that will facilitate the weekend cover, which will be key. The clinicians tell us this will give us 90% coverage. Compared to where we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Matt Shanahan: There are positions under the HSE embargo and emergency appointments that have not been covered.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: There has been recruitment and there will be further recruitment to the facility. I appreciate the Deputy's advocacy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: That completes Leader's Questions but before we move on, Deputy Pearse Doherty, quite rightly and as is his right, has challenged my ruling earlier in respect of a point of order that he wished to raise. Salient rulings 374 and 379 make it quite clear that the Chair can refuse to accept a point of order if it is being made during a period of disorder. However, if the Deputy has a point he...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I was just looking for some guidance. I know that the Chair, in his elected capacity, has a role in ensuring that parliamentary questions are answered thoroughly. We do have an answer to a parliamentary question on the record of the Dáil which says that the Minister, Deputy Norma Foley, did not meet with any executive from Yondr. I have the evidence that this is not the case. I have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: A matter of that nature can be referred to me. Matters are regularly referred to me under Standing Orders, insofar as they apply to written questions. If the Deputy wants to refer it to me, I will adjudicate on it and act accordingly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I thank the Ceann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Nov 2024)

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Nov 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Before I begin with my question, I want to add to the comments made by the Tánaiste on this last sitting day of the Thirty-third Dáil, about the work of all the staff who have ensured the smooth running of these Houses during difficult times. I thank the ushers, cleaners, kitchen staff and those who ensure the proceedings are broadcast and the media which plays a vital role in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: I acknowledge and I am acutely aware that the Government and the country are facing significant challenges in respect of housing, which we discussed earlier, the cost of living, health, climate change and many other important issues, and I look forward to getting out about the country to debate these issues in the time ahead. However, it is important to meet head-on the narrative that the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Mattie McGrath: There are 36 in school classes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: Just more than 50% of the population has completed higher level education and that has doubled in just 20 years. More pupils than at any point in the past century are being taught as Gaeilge. We are living much longer now, with an average life expectancy of 82 years. We are healthier than we have ever been and, for example, smoking is at the lowest level in 50 years. Deputy Smith may not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Tánaiste has gone on long enough.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: We have made a lot of progress in this country. It is wrong that Deputy Smith does not at least have the good grace to acknowledge the extraordinary progress the country has made, notwithstanding the challenges that we have. We have made progress as a country.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Bríd Smith: There is €25 billion of a surplus in the economy, with 140,000 people on the housing list, 14,000 to 15,000 people homeless and rising, 1 million people on waiting lists for health care and 700,000 people living below the poverty line. We can throw figures across the floor at each other but these are facts that the Tánaiste does not address. As a left-wing TD and a socialist, I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Micheál Martin: I am the son of a busman.