Results 25,001-25,020 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet Committee A (Economy) last met. [41642/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Communications (18 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on changes to his Department's website; and if changes are being made to merrionstreet.ie. [41863/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Communications (18 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the commitment in his own Department's strategy statement to examine the balance of power and responsibility between the government and the civil service. [43829/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is wrong.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: Does that include the strategic communications unit?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach to outline the policy areas that his appointed advisors have. [41864/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: He is an eminent member of the Taoiseach's party - Maurice Manning.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: There are six.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: When a civil servant is put into a quasi-political role or when he is appointed to a position without normal procedures, he is appointed under special advisor legislation. This was the practice followed in the past by all Ministers and taoisigh. It is a practice I followed myself. Can the Taoiseach explain why the top two positions in the strategic communications unit were not appointed in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: Finally, will the Taoiseach indicate, in respect of the work of the strategic communications unit, why any adverse statistics are released on Friday afternoon? Anything to do with waiting lists, housing lists and so on are released on Friday afternoon or the Friday of a bank holiday.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: Will the communications unit be issuing statements providing us with information that is as clear as it possibly can be about record hospital and housing waiting lists?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: That is inappropriate.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: That is not right.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: That is not right.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: We do not give the names. The names are given by the Top Level Appointments Committee.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach knows my position.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: I think the Taoiseach has answered the questions that were on all our minds because the dates speak for themselves. Last September 12 months we had a commitment to set up this group on Seanad reform. The Taoiseach's own Department's statement of strategy says there is a commitment "to fully implement the Manning report on the Seanad". Given his comments on the Manning report I am surprised...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: That is why I asked the Taoiseach about it. He just said he is committed to it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Seanad Reform (17 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: If the Taoiseach does not believe in it why does he not change it?