Results 20,061-20,080 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the officials who accompanied him during bilateral meetings with other Heads of Government in Zagreb. [50337/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the December 2019 European Council meeting. [52987/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he held bilateral meetings while attending the December 2019 European Council meeting; and if so, the issues discussed. [52988/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he met the new European Council President while in Brussels; and if so, the issues discussed. [53348/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: I suggest that the whole issue of drug gangs is also appropriate to the Cabinet committee on social policy and public services. Recent reporting about the scale and activities of drug gangs in Dublin, and increasingly throughout the country, has confirmed what I and my party have been saying for several years, namely, that there is a new and sinister level of drug activity taking hold and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: The results of the Westminster election last week have made it very likely that there is a movement towards the restoration of the democratic institutions established under the Good Friday Agreement. Immense damage was done in the past three years since the Assembly and Executive were collapsed due to a controversy over a heating scheme, in which it turns out both sides were implicated. A...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he or his officials have met the Sinn Féin leaders in relation to the Northern Ireland Assembly and the upcoming deadline of 13 January 2020. [50122/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the leader of the DUP since 12 December 2019; and if so, the issues discussed. [53346/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach ask him?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: I did not ask whether the Taoiseach was aware of the provision but whether he had asked the Deputy.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: I asked a simple question and am entitled to an answer. Did the Taoiseach ask him or not? He is aware of the provision-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has been asked publicly about the matter, as has his party. I am asking him formally in the House whether he has asked Mr. Murphy to avail of the mechanism. It is a "Yes" or "No" question.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: I asked the question.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: I asked a simple question. The Deputy should not be so disparaging.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: At least I asked a question.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: I have never believed in the process of kneecapping people before asking questions.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: I am not talking about Deputy Doherty but about the movement that he supported for years. That was its modus operandi when asking questions.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: The programme for Government contains a commitment to "fundamentally change the relationship between Government and the Oireachtas, and with it the relationship between the Irish people and their parliament". It is more than two weeks since former Deputy Dara Murphy formally resigned as a Member of the House. He effectively retired from serving the people of the northside of Cork about two...

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: He is saying they are fairly useless.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach may have been honest about the capacity of the Cabinet.