Results 181-200 of 46,387 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: There was also our participation in the EU battle group. I made that clear at the time, particularly because Ireland is a member of the European Union and because I support participation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I know but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I do not regret choices.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is endeavouring to introduce a politically partisan dimension to the debate which is unwarranted with regard to making decisions in respect of consolidation of our presence in various places around the world and trying to put a political construct on it. That is unfortunate. Anyway, we are entitled to our respective views.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I have no issue with coming before the committee at any time in respect of anything. The Deputy knows that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I never rejected that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is playing politics. Our participation in PESCO has been minimalist. The Deputy needs to be honest with the public.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is not talking about principles. He is creating a narrative that does not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The public deserve honesty and there has been a whole noise-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is creating a scenario whereby he is intimating that momentous decisions are being taken in respect of participation in PESCO when, in reality, our participation has, on the basis of any objective assessment, been rather limited during our involvement in PESCO.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: As I said to the Deputy, I have no issue-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I would not make it a precondition-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----but I have no issue with coming before the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: We will be bringing forward-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: We will be bringing four more projects forward. We have no issue with discussing them here if people want to go through the detail of them. It is all quite transparent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Irish neutrality is fundamentally whether you are a member of a military alliance or not. That is how it has always been defined.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is how it has been defined. Other people can have variations of that if they wish but that is how it has always been officially defined in terms of Irish military neutrality.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: As I said to the Deputy, I am not getting into specific dates. I stated that it will be done before the end of the month. It is fluid in terms of the countries we are talking to, and we have been anxious to see can we get as many countries as possible on board which would be good for the cause of Palestinian self-determination. That work is continuing. I have had calls last week and I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: The Government will make a decision first and then we will obviously-----