Results 161-180 of 1,030,310 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ned O'Sullivan OR speaker:Paul Murphy OR speaker:Roderic O'Gorman OR speaker:Cathal Berry)

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Marian Harkin: On three occasions in 2022, I raised the issue of the pain clinic at Sligo University Hospital, SUH, with the Tánaiste and the Minister for Health, when there were two service interruptions and, previously, when it was closed during the Covid period. Those issues were resolved and the service resumed. However, just over four weeks ago, I received information that there was to be a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy's time is up.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Marian Harkin: People are not interested in hearing about Saolta University Health Care Group being in the process of recruiting consultants.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. Chronic pain is a devastating condition because it is a long-term one. Thankfully, there has been significant development in provision over the past decade or so but it took a long time to get a proper base within our heath service more generally. The reason for the temporary closure of the chronic pain service in Sligo University Hospital is, as...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Marian Harkin: The Tánaiste said progress has been made in the provision of pain relief services. I agree there has been some progress but it is important to note that there has been a change in the international classification of chronic pain. In moving from the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases, ICD-10, to ICD-11, chronic pain is now recognised as a disease in its own...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: There are streets across the country which need that rebalancing in respect of the common good. Sometimes it can be through the delay in getting various projects through. Take Dublin and O'Connell Street. A major project there has been on the go for about 20 years in respect of retail and residential. What is the name of that company? I do not have its name now but it has gone through...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Mary Butler: Moore Street.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: No, I am talking about the development itself - the bigger one. That has yet to go through planning but it has been on the agenda for about two decades. That is a problem that speaks more to the dereliction question. When a big project is mooted and is in the works, very little happens until it gets realised. I see that in parts of Cork at the moment as well in terms of people waiting for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was grimly amused by the Tánaiste's accusing others of ideological obsessions in response to an earlier question. Surely the ideological obsession that is most evident is that of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to privatise everything that moves, whether it is selling public land to private developers for housing or the issue I want to raise, public service broadcasting. It has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: First, I want to make it very clear that there is a fundamental difference between outsourcing and privatisation. Fianna Fáil, by the way, has a very strong record historically of building up State enterprises and did so through various decades-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Carthy: It has some record of selling them off as well.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----particularly during the Seán Lemass era. RTÉ is not for sale. I do not think there is any proposal to put RTÉ on the market-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just "Fair City".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: And "The Late Late Show".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: -----or on the stock exchange. That is privatisation - let us be clear. Deputy Boyd Barrett is like Don Quixote, tilting at windmills. There is no privatisation. RTÉ is not going to be sold. It is not on the market.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Paul Murphy: To whom is it being outsourced? Private companies.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: The Minister and the Government have been clear that they do not want mandatory redundancies. RTÉ has committed to seeking voluntary redundancies. Public funding has increased and the Government will make a decision on the future funding of RTÉ, which has always been part RTÉ licence fee, part Exchequer funding and part commercial revenue. RTÉ has always taken in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So the Government washes its hands of the matter. The Government is responsible for not reining in the obscene salaries, which everybody knew about, at the top of RTÉ, whether it was executives or a tiny number of overpaid presenters. Now, however, the people getting it in the neck are the skilled people - the ordinary workers. They are the ones who will lose their jobs and they will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Micheál Martin: The person will not have to pay €400,000, that is the point. It is already €100,000 below market value. When someone buys that house, they will have acquired a house for €100,000 below the market value. They will have availed of schemes that will increase their capacity to afford that house by about €130,000, if they go the full distance on the first home scheme...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Pearse Doherty: This is ridiculous.