Results 25,701-25,720 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: The House sets its own business and it is entitled to do this. I am amending the Order of Business so we can take-----
- Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: The appointment was made on Sunday and nobody was consulted-----
- Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. Given the fact that last week I asked that there be proper accountability to the House for the appointment of the former Attorney General, Máire Whelan, to the Court of Appeal and given the manner in which the Taoiseach and the Government decided to ram through the appointment yesterday morning in advance of the Dáil convening, I am of the view that the business...
- Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: I am giving the rationale for opposing the order as proposed, as I am entitled to do. It is also important to correct the record of the House regarding the former Attorney General, John Murray. He was appointed in 1992, three years before the 1995 Act was implemented. When I say this is the first time in nearly a quarter of a century that an Attorney General has been appointed in this...
- Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: We must have honesty, frankness, less obfuscation and less clouding of the truth. All we seek is the truth. I propose, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that at 5 p.m. other business be suspended to provide for statements on and questions concerning the nomination by the Government of the former Attorney General, Máire Whelan, to serve in the Court of Appeal. The order of...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: That is a terrible defence, a weak defence.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: So the Taoiseach got it wrong.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach strains credibility by putting her in the same league as the individuals he has named. I did not want to raise that but it is factually the position.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: I also put to the Taoiseach, and may I say to Deputy Doherty she is not Leader.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: It is an important point. Suitability to office is important. It is very important to make the point. I am not going to take a cosy consensus or some insider consensus from people who want to ordain it otherwise.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: I do not wish to do that. The precedent here is to remind the Taoiseach that Máire Whelan was Attorney General. Since the 1995 Act, no Attorney General was appointed in such a manner as she was appointed. Would the Taoiseach please accept that truth? He should stop trying to play fast and loose with the rules. People who play fast and loose with the rules get sent off the pitch...
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: That is the bottom line. I put it to the Taoiseach that this did not adhere to the 1995 Act in terms of how the appointment was made. The Attorney General should have alerted the JAAB to her interest in the vacancy.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach a specific question. When was he told that this appointment was going to be made? He is the incoming Taoiseach. He is about to appoint Deputy Frances Fitzgerald as the incoming Tánaiste. She is also the outgoing Tánaiste. Could he give us a simple answer? When was he told about this?
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: It would be different if you had followed proper procedure but you have not.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: Could the Taoiseach be a bit more transparent?
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: When was the Taoiseach told specifically that this appointment was to be made? Did the Tánaiste alert him, as incoming Taoiseach, that she was bringing forward this appointment? He said yesterday that he had regrets. Why did he not stand up and resist the appointment at the time it was put to him and in the manner it was so put? Would he do it all over again?
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: Let us be clear. None of the three people was ever in the position of Attorney General. With the greatest of respect to the outgoing Attorney General, Máire Whelan-----
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: I am not talking about him. Máire Whelan is no Frank Clarke, no Adrian Hardiman and no Donal O’Donnell.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2017)
Micheál Martin: Last week in my speech on Deputy Varadkar's election as Taoiseach, I raised the question of the appointment of the former Attorney General, Ms Máire Whelan, as a judge to the Court of Appeal. I said then that if the Taoiseach wished to do more than just talk about changing politics, he had an opportunity to do so in the context of this squalid appointment. I asked that the Taoiseach...