Results 29,041-29,060 of 50,917 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why is the Bill no longer listed? In the context of the health reform Bill, the Government promised that the HSE would cease to exist over time. That was promised in 2011. While the Bill is listed, it states that it is not possible to indicate when publication is expected at this stage. That is a phrase we have become used to over the past four years but now that we are getting to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Could the Taoiseach define "pious goodness".
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is what frightens me. It worries me.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Fair play. He cannot. There is a treaty.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: What are those points?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: On what?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: There is nothing new in that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department is assessing the impact of an exit by the United Kingdom from the European Union following a referendum being held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11634/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the actions he and his Department are taking to protect the business and trading relationship between Ireland and the United Kingdom, which now amounts to over €1 billion per week, in the event of the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16206/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he is setting up a special working group that includes business representatives, to prepare for the possibility of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16207/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to speak at the next European Union Council meeting regarding the possible exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19226/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he and his Department have considered or deliberated on whether Ireland will agree to changes to the European Union treaty, when it is discussed at European Union Council level, to allow the United Kingdom to remain within the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20237/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach the specific concerns for Ireland he discussed with the British Prime Minister, Mr David Cameron, in the event of the planned referendum on the United Kingdom's future membership of the European Union being passed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25705/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he was requested by the British Prime Minister, Mr David Cameron, to support certain reforms in the European Union, to allow a compromise to be negotiated in relation to the 2017 referendum in Britain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25712/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he or his Department officials are exploring the options of a referendum being held here in the event of changes being made to European Union treaties prior to the referendum taking place in Britain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25713/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I am sure many postgraduate students in foreign relations and diplomacy would like to get their teeth into such a reply, because it is a lengthy masterpiece that says nothing of substance. It is full of banal generalities, which is what we have been getting on this issue for the past year and a half since Prime Minister Cameron said what he said. I am...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government told NAMA to accelerate the sales process.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Nobody is denying the €7 million is in an offshore account.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----if this is not fixed. Then the CEO of the HSE is put in charge of the task force. Why he was not put in all along I do not know. Strangely, he has been put in from now until March, presumably to take care of the election for the Government and to try to deal with this issue during the electoral period. The real cynicism at the heart of the Minister’s position is that when...