Results 24,001-24,020 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: There is nothing-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach ensure that the work of Behaviour & Attitudes in the context of research and insight be published forthwith?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: There is nothing as grave or as fundamental as the independence of our Civil Service. That is something that will outlive any particular storm at any particular time. I will decide what I raise and when I raise it. I have plenty of opportunities to do so. There is nothing more fundamental in a parliamentary democracy. This is a parliamentary democracy system of Government, not a...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: Last week, the Taoiseach was in full denial in regard to the activities of the strategic communications unit and the party-political nature of the advertisements related to the national development plan. I subsequently wrote to the Secretary General of the Taoiseach's Department outlining my concerns and complaints, and particularly what I believe to be a breach of the Civil Service code and...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2018)
Micheál Martin: My question for the Taoiseach is whether, given his recent comments, he now accepts that the strategic communications unit should be stood down and abolished. Will he ensure that the independence of the Civil Service is ring-fenced from party-political promotion given what has happened over recent weeks? Will he agree to release all information pertaining to the establishment of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The third parties in question are spending taxpayers' money on behalf of the State.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: A strapline stating the content was produced in partnership with Project Ireland 2040 does not------
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: They were not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The interviewees were not told.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is only all Fine Gael politicians-------
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: They are facts.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has a responsibility in the spending of taxpayers' money. He cannot wash his hands of that responsibility.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: We should go for the next 15 minutes. We have to respond to that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: I think we should go for the full 15 minutes now-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----and leave the last question. Many issues were raised there.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Aspersions have been cast that have to be dealt with and I need to deal with them.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: In the first instance, I have never used any term such as "Goebbels" with regard to the Government's propaganda campaign. It is wrong for the Taoiseach to try to suggest by innuendo that I would endorse that or that I would in any way associate myself with it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: That I would not disassociate myself with it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach let me reply? The Taoiseach's problem is that-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----he does not like it when hard words are said about things that he and his Government get up to. I am talking about legitimate questions that I have asked for the last three months on this issue. The Taoiseach does not like it and he then gets overly partisan and nasty. There is a bad streak there. Mr. Joe Flaherty, for example, is not a Member of this House. He is entitled to be a...