Results 25,661-25,680 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: I did not say that.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has not answered the question. The Government fought tenaciously against accountability yesterday and did not facilitate a questions and answers session yesterday in the House.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: I put it to the Taoiseach that yesterday in the House he stated that this was the first he has learned about questions about the suitability. It was not the first he had learned about it because I told him on Sunday evening last in a phone call. I made it clear about the Fennelly commission and concerns I had about it. I made it clear to the Taoiseach, as I did last week in the House. I...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: None of those persons who the Taoiseach named-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: -----had any negative tribunal findings hanging over them.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that the former Attorney General, at the Fennelly commission, had to apologise for having given a contrary impression in her evidence to the commission and regrets that her at times "trenchant language" had undoubtedly left the commission with what she calls an "erroneous impression" that she had used such language at the meetings and in particular that she had used...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: This is not being personal at all and I have no axe to grind with the individual-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: I am making the point-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that accountability should be central to everything we do in this House. The Taoiseach and the Tánaiste should be prepared to come to the House to answer in detail for their actions relating to the appointment of the former Attorney General to the Court of Appeal. It is an appointment which has been without precedent since 1995 and the 1995 Act,...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: 140. To ask the Taoiseach if he is reorganising his own Department. [29057/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: 141. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet committees will remain the same in number or if he is making changes to them. [29056/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: It is shocking.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: Yes. We will let them go.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: I am referring to the big ticket items.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: We could put it in place in reserve.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on section E on Brexit in his Department's statement of strategy, in particular the way in which stakeholder consultation and engagement on an all-island basis as appropriate is taking place outside the national fora that have been held in Kilmainham and Dublin Castle. [24677/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach his Department's role in exploring the possible transition relationship between Ireland and the UK to form a stopgap between EU membership and full Brexit and to assist with mitigating economic damage between the two important trading partners and to possibly provide a legal basis for trade to continue between the two countries and between the North and South of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: I have Questions Nos. 4 and 8 in this grouping and I will do my best to keep within the timeframe.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: Relax, Deputy. It is accepted that the next few years we will be dealing with one of the most complex challenges that has ever faced this country and the Irish public service. As I said earlier, we succeeded in getting our overall concerns recognised in the general guidelines. That has played to our traditional strengths as a country and to our public service. The next phase, which we...