Results 25,441-25,460 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: We have heard the list, but it does not seem to include any substantive bilateral meeting with European colleagues. I have been asking the Taoiseach about this next matter for three weeks but he has consistently dodged the question. Why did he decide to change the entire ministerial team dealing with the EU and Brexit? The previous Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and Minister of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: I would have thought that the explanation for replacing the entire Brexit team with a new one would be down to a major change in strategy that the Taoiseach had in mind. The former Taoiseach held many meetings with Heads of State and Government across Europe. Does the current Taoiseach intend to complete that work? In the context of the Brexit negotiations, does he have meetings lined up...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: That is not what the Taoiseach said. He should not be disingenuous.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: That is not the issue. It is just that the Bills are not being produced.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: With regard to the change or reform of Cabinet committees, there are many questions about the strategy the Taoiseach has deployed. The Taoiseach said he wanted the committees to be more focused, but he has put many issues involving wide-ranging and diverse disciplines under one committee. As a result of his changes, the national anti-poverty strategy, public sector reform, the drugs...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: It raises questions for a garda today should another event or incident happen on the street. What will his or her response be-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: -----in terms of rushing to the defence of a person going about their business or a civilian whose freedom of movement is being curtailed? There is always a balance in these matters. I am not talking about imprisonment here but one's right to walk on the street and to go from A to B. I believe gardaí should vindicate that right-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: -----but it often is not vindicated in the modern era. We must be very careful about cherry-picking various aspects of a case when we have not been in the court room for the length of the trial.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: It undermines morale even further, whether the Taoiseach accepts it or not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply on NESC. We are in dire need of proper strategic oversight of economic and social policy, in particular the connection between both, and I hope that a new legislative status for NESC would achieve that. I want to make a general reference to whether the Department of the Taoiseach is co-ordinating legislation across Government. It seems to me that this...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: The last general election was a year and a half ago and we are being told the Bill is nowhere near ready for introduction never mind completion. There is a real need to focus on what legislative output can be achieved. I am not just talking in terms of publishing Bills-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: -----but finishing and completing Bills.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: 87. To ask the Taoiseach the Bills his Department is now working on. [32815/17]
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: No.
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: I might have to unleash the nuclear weapon.
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Cowen wants to come in on the planning and development Bill.
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: I do not think we can say that the Dáil is delaying an issue. If anything, the delay has been on the Government's side. We are willing to facilitate this.
- Leader's Questions (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: They told me the story through their real life experiences. The fundamental thing that comes out of this report-----
- Leader's Questions (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: -----is the sense of disconnect between how soldiers, Naval Service personnel and Air Corps personnel on the ground feel and what leadership-----
- Leader's Questions (11 Jul 2017)
Micheál Martin: -----the Department of Defence and, ultimately, Government may think. That disconnect is again revealed in the Taoiseach's response.