Results 29,381-29,400 of 50,917 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said that, if necessary, legislation would be introduced. The Government is huffing and puffing on this, sending out hints that it will do this and will do that, and that it will threaten the banks with penal levies and so forth.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: We have put legislation before the House this week. It is constructive legislation which would give the Central Bank the capacity to intervene for those 300,000 mortgage holders and also for the 46,000 mortgage holders who are at the mercy of vulture funds. Will the Taoiseach accept our legislation and move on from Second Stage to Committee Stage, given that the Minister of State, Deputy...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The pressure is not on because the Minister, Deputy Noonan, said yesterday that the banks have moved and that people should shop around - switch around is what he said. The pressure is off. The Taoiseach or someone leaked the European Commission report yesterday to coincide with the Fianna Fáil Private Members' Bill, saying that the EU is now stating that we cannot interfere and should...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Bill before the House is constructive legislation. Despite the Minister of State, Deputy English, saying that he accepted the principle of it, the Taoiseach intends to vote it down this evening. He will continue to pretend to the thousands of families affected that we mean to do something, that we gave the banks this deadline and, as he said, that officials are now looking at the...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----and years on this issue? There has been no action in regard to it - nothing. It is about time that he put flesh on the bone of the spin and intervened. There is legislation before the House this evening and I ask him to allow it to be approved.
- Membership of Committees: Motion (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Is this the motion to remove Deputy Michael McNamara from certain committees?
- Membership of Committees: Motion (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed.
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, was on the radio in the past number of days essentially stating that the universal health insurance policy, as per the programme for Government, is at an end. Meanwhile, the crisis facing the health service continues. In particular, overcrowding in emergency departments is at an all-time high since records began. The number of people waiting on...
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: They are way up in the past 12 months. Waiting times have gone through the roof.
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is to shelve the Government's policy.
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I asked about the programme for Government legislation.
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: He said he is not going to do it.
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is a form of jackbootism. It is dictatorial.
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Minister of State can never resist his impulses to demonstrate how tough he is and-----
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----how such a man of steel can kick people off committees at will-----
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----so that the remainder of his backbenchers will be forever in fear of him-----
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----and what he might do to them if they should ever have the temerity to do something that would be adverse to the Government's position and fortunes. In terms of parliamentary reform and the Parliament's future, this is more a relic of the past than anything we should be doing today or in the future. I disagree fundamentally with what the Government is doing in removing Deputy McNamara...
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am amused by Deputy Deasy, who has from time to time-----
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Through the Chair, I know that the Chief Whip must be concerned, but Deputy Deasy always celebrated his own contrarian and independent streak as a distinctive trademark-----
- Order of Business (7 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----that distinguished him from other members of the mainstream Government parties-----