Results 24,081-24,100 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Keep in touch with the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly.
- Severe Weather Conditions: Statements (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, I realise that this is an important issue and I have no difficulty with the Taoiseach's presentation, but it would have been helpful if we could have had a short debate on issues not covered by what the Taoiseach said. There should be proper communication to every party as to the order of what is going on in the House and what debates are happening. People could have...
- Severe Weather Conditions: Statements (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: I am talking about Members of the House in general. That is the way it should happen.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is about time the Taoiseach faced up to that. He has blurred the lines and is going down a dangerous route which has, ultimately, the potential to corrupt our democratic process itself. It is about time he saw that.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Have the terms been published?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: There must be sign off. It is taxpayer's money.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is an advertisement.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: No, no.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Check the line, Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: I asked very straight questions and have been asking them of the Taoiseach for the past three to four months, long before the publication of any national development plan. The strategic communications unit is about the promotion of the Taoiseach's good self and his party. That is the point. It is unprecedented. There are 15 staff in the unit. I asked the Taoiseach a very simple question...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The question is about how Fine Gael candidates end up in a Government advertisement paid for by the taxpayer. It is not the function of the taxpayer to fund advertisements for Fine Gael election candidates.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Some of them are not even Members of the Oireachtas and they are certainly not members of the Government. This is not about process; it is fundamental and goes to the heart of democracy and how our system works. The Civil Service should be completely devoid of politics. There is absolutely no way the Fine Gael website had every single item of the national development plan, chapter and...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The roll-out and launch of the national development plan have been by far the most expensive and extensive ever undertaken by a Government. The role of the strategic communications unit, SCU, which the Taoiseach established and whose head he selected, must come under the closest of scrutiny and most comprehensive of reviews. The SCU-directed campaign has, either advertently or...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Project Ireland 2040 Launch (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 101. To ask the Taoiseach the cost of marketing the launch of the NDP and NPF in newspapers and social media at national and local level; if it was the strategic communications unit that co-ordinated the information campaign; and if there was a procurement process on same. [9349/18]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Project Ireland 2040 Launch (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 102. To ask the Taoiseach the partnership arrangements that the strategic communications unit has with each national and local newspaper to promote Government campaigns; and the cost involved. [9350/18]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Project Ireland 2040 Launch (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 108. To ask the Taoiseach the cost of his department's involvement in the NDP and NPF launch that was held in County Sligo on 16 February 2018; and if these were the total costs. [9380/18]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Project Ireland 2040 Launch (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 110. To ask the Taoiseach if the strategic communications unit has access to other budgets in other Departments to promote the NDP and NPF. [9399/18]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Project Ireland 2040 Launch (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 122. To ask the Taoiseach the marketing budget allocated to the NDP and NPF launch; and the cost of cinema and newspaper advertisements at national and local level for same. [9809/18]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 103. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken with the leader of the DUP since 13 February 2018. [9351/18]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 104. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken with the leader of the Alliance Party since 13 February 2018. [9352/18]