Results 28,561-28,580 of 50,917 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Hopefully, it will become the new operational word.
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: It was appropriate that we had a minute's silence in the Dáil yesterday and statements from all parties on the appalling atrocity in Paris. However, I do not believe the Government should have taken the decision to remove all other items of business from the schedule, in particular, the Order of Business, Leaders' Questions, Taoiseach's Questions and Topical Issues. All of these items...
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----and the democratic revolution he promised is like universal health insurance, another illusion and denial of the truth. The second issue I wish to raise concerns the announcement the Taoiseach made to the House last week on the inquiry into Siteserv, the activities of IBRC and the disposal of assets. Some 11 questions I have submitted on the subject have been ruled out of order....
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: As I am entitled to ask a question on the Order of Business about the scheduling of business, please do not interrupt me when I am in order. The Taoiseach said he would consult leaders and that there would be a debate. When is that debate going to take place and when will provision be made on the Order Paper to enable it to happen? We were told there was to be inclusion of €600...
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: It was. An e-mail was issued stating the Government had decided on the schedule for the day.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is your model. It is in the White Paper.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not going to happen.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government was told this by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It did not need this report.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach provided dishonest budgets for three years.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: In fairness, the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, did too.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government put it up to 14 weeks.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: In his political messages and speeches to the people and this Dáil, the truth simply does not matter to the Taoiseach. He will say anything to get elected. He will say anything to cover up something. He will deny reality and the truth when it stares him in the face. Language means nothing-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Language means nothing to the Taoiseach. He breaks promise after promise-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----believing that media management will take care of everything. Nowhere is this behaviour more manifest than in the Government's abandonment of universal health insurance, which was the cornerstone of its health philosophy for the past ten years and longer. The Taoiseach promised it in 2007 and in 2011. He said it would eliminate the number of people waiting on trolleys, reduce waiting...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach dismissed all of this. He rebuked all and sundry who questioned it. The IMO said it is one of the biggest cases of political mis-selling in recent history. My question to the Taoiseach is this. How did he get it so wrong and make such a mess of it? One senior Labour Party Minister said this was an astonishing mess. He said the Labour Party was for universal health...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why would anyone believe anything the Taoiseach says on health policy ever again?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: George Washington once said it is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. I respectfully put to the Taoiseach that what I said at the outset is reflected again in his reply. Language means absolutely nothing to him. He will say anything. He has just now said he does not propose to implement the findings of the ESRI report. The ESRI report is an evaluation of the model that his...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The ESRI, KPMG and others have said what the Taoiseach was proposing in his model and said represented value for money would potentially cost a family with up to two children approximately €8,000 to €9,000 and would cost the State approximately €6.5 billion. Now the Taoiseach comes in here and says the Government is no longer doing "that" model. The Taoiseach spent ten...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----but he did no research. There was no blueprint, because it did not matter. The truth did not matter to the Taoiseach before the last election and it did not matter to him for the past five years.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not have a bull's notion how he was going to get there-----