Results 27,801-27,820 of 50,916 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: There is enormous controversy about this issue, regardless of whether we or the Minister like it. I put it to her that there must be some significant intervention to deal with it comprehensively and transparently. Is it her intention to meet the chairperson of the Policing Authority to put it to the authority that it is important, in terms of accountability and transforming culture, that...
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: Since yesterday, the controversy surrounding the O'Higgins report involving the leaked transcripts has escalated, particularly given the leaks of a different nature, one to "Six One" news, a separate leak of transcripts to the "Prime Time" programme and extensive leaks in the Irish Examineragain this morning. These are all fairly damaging in terms of their revelations, albeit perhaps crying...
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: I asked the Tánaiste yesterday whether she had spoken to the Commissioner or not, and she did not give a clear reply. I think Deputy Adams asked the same question. Can she confirm whether she actually had a meeting with the Garda Commissioner in regard to this entire issue, with a view to bringing about a mechanism to resolve it in a transparent manner? Has she had such a meeting or...
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: Sometimes, where there are exceptional situations, what might not normally be considered has to be considered in the interests of getting to the bottom of this and getting the issue resolved.
- Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: Finally, if I may, can the Tánaiste clarify, in the case of the meeting in Mullingar in 2008 which Maurice McCabe recorded - and if he had not recorded it, God knows where he would be, as I said yesterday - are there any issues emanating from that and has there been any investigation into how all of that came about? It seems to have led to the rather hostile and adversarial manner in...
- Order of Business (17 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is an awful pity the previous Government did not cost its programme for Government.
- Order of Business (17 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: The health costings would have been enormous.
- Order of Business (17 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Labour Party is moving commendably fast.
- Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State (17 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: For smoking cessation.
- Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State (17 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: The smoking section of the Cabinet. Thank you, Finian.
- Order of Business (17 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: In the context of the programme for Government and in various discussions prior to the formation of the Government, there was considerable discussion on the issue of the casualisation of the workforce and the downward momentum in pay levels generally, particularly in the private sector and some elements of the public sector for new entrants. The circumstances of Tesco workers are...
- Order of Business (17 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: The casualisation of the workforce.
- Order of Business (17 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: Cardiac services.
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: Is the Minister satisfied from a legal perspective that the section of the Act concerned covers legal instructions and submissions because I have been advised that it does not cover legal instruction and submissions by senior counsel? My understanding is that it was not inquisitorial in respect of Sergeant McCabe but was, in fact, extremely adversarial and that almost every single thing was...
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: I am going to put the question. Sergeant McCabe was later exonerated. That has to be said. That is what makes the revelations in last week's Irish Examiner all the more disturbing. They allege that senior counsel, on the instruction of An Garda Síochána, put forward the view that Sergeant McCabe was acting with malice.The senior counsel were questioning his motivation and...
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: Has the Tánaiste spoken to the Garda Commissioner in this regard? Will she speak to the Garda Commissoner? Will she find a mechanism by which this issue can be comprehensively and transparently dealt with?
- Leaders' Questions (17 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: We have had the publication of the O'Higgins report into deficiencies, malpractice and a series of investigations at Bailieboro Garda station, the areas surrounding the station and its hinterland. We had much selective leaking and managed interpretations of the report in advance, which were disingenuous and led people down the wrong tracks. It needs to be put on the record that the...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Data (17 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: 67. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of immigrants that Ireland has received from Syria; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9986/16]
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is not good governance that one Minister gets it for one year and swaps with a Minister the following year.
- Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)
Micheál Martin: The fact that it is on-----