Results 26,161-26,180 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: No. Deputy Moynihan is not referring to the compassionate access programme. This is separate.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: People were genuinely shocked last evening when the Policing Authority issued a statement in which it again expressed its disappointment at not being advised in a timely manner that an audit into the breath test issues was under way. Despite questioning over several months, the authority has not yet been provided with the full internal reports or indeed a clear sense of how these matters...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: -----and the fact that there has been no provision of the requisite documentation and information to the authority.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: They buried it.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: We are now into the sixth day without Bus Éireann services throughout the country. People are angry about the loss of services. The workers are very angry about the race to the bottom to a low wage and low cost public transport model with a draconian reduction in their overall take-home income. People in the regions have no access to public transport. Towns that are already in deep...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Minister is being disingenuous. The point I am making is that in 2013, when all of that broke down, the Government at the time took the decision to appoint two experienced facilitators to get people back into facilitation. Nothing has happened on this occasion by the Government and nothing has happened for all of 2015 and right through to 2016 because it is not in the Minister's own...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: The proof of the pudding is in an e-mail that was sent to the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, on 23 December 2015, when he was the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, by Graham Doyle, alerting him to the fact that the unions were very concerned about possible measures in Bus Éireann. The Minister's official said, "However, we do not detect any immediate action on that front. They are...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: -----because of the general election and the onset of it. Many problems were sown as a result of that. That complete stand-off has caused the current crisis in Bus Éireann. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, has said that he is not getting involved in any circumstances and is not even going to appoint facilitators.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: This is not just a pay dispute. It is not just an industrial relations dispute. It is a fundamental issue about structural change to Bus Éireann.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: That is why it needs different inputs in addition to the industrial relations input and the Minister has been severely lacking in addressing this particular issue.
- Northern Ireland: Statements (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: I am sharing time with Deputy Declan Breathnach. I extend my sympathy to the Sinn Féin Party and the family of the late Martin McGuinness on his sad passing. Last Thursday I attended his funeral which was a powerful testimony to his contribution to politics, particularly in the past two decades. In the nearly two decades since the victory of democratic politics on this island...
- Business of Dáil (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: Fianna Fáil had a Private Members' debate some weeks back but we would be open to another.
- Business of Dáil (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Coppinger is probably not too accurate herself.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: We do not have the time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: What about the next group of questions? We cannot do that. We do not have enough time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he and his departmental officials have carried out an assessment of the legislative changes that will have to be made following the British Government triggering Article 50. [15138/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: I do not think the Taoiseach responded to my question. Basically, the Article 50 process will begin tomorrow and it is absolutely clear that we are not prepared for it. I accept that there has been a lot of activity but there is no public evidence that we have detailed proposals or have made preparations for different possible outcomes. I welcome Mr. Barnier's mention of the parity he...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: Over the years, the approach of the Government in preparing for referendums has been inconsistent. It was once accepted practice that a detailed consideration of policy implications would be published in advance of a particular referendum and a genuine political consensus was sought before proceeding. However, we have got to the stage where little is prepared in advance. For example,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: I was referring to the cost implications once a referendum is passed.