Results 30,401-30,420 of 50,917 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 617. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the allocation of Leader funding to the County Cork region is 32.4% less than the previous round of funding; his views on the equitability of this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12740/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 618. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out the average of the national allocation of Leader programme funding that County Cork received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12741/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 620. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how the criteria of sub-regional areas were applied to the County Cork area given that the population of the Cork county area is twice the population of the Cork city area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12743/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 621. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he and his Department have received complaints from Leader companies regarding the funding that has been allocated to them; the way these complaints will be dealt with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12744/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 623. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has been informed that the new allocation of Leader funding by his Department will result in job losses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12746/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay Commission Establishment (26 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the low pay commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9968/15]
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I refer the Taoiseach to page 3 of the programme for Government which contains a very important legislative commitment. In that context, no notes or records were kept of the series of high level meetings about Irish Water in 2012 between the then Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Commissioner Phil Hogan and the Bord Gáis chairperson, Rose Hynes. The briefing...
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will explain briefly. They were held in October and November that year. According to records in Mr. Hogan's diary there were no civil servants at either meeting which took place at a time when many key issues were being considered. There were no notes for more than half of all the meetings between the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and Bord Gáis in the...
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will come to it. There is a context to the question I will ask.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: A total of 23 meetings took place and of those, only ten had minutes.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is, actually.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will tell the House why. Four years ago, page 3 of the programme for Government stated, "We will legislate for a reformulated code of laws, replacing both the Ministers and Secretaries Acts and the Public Service Management Act, which will spell out the legal relationship between Ministers and their civil servants and their legal accountability for decisions and for management of...
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It makes a laughing stock of the Taoiseach's commitment to the programme for Government.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is not my question.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I asked about the commitment on legislation in the programme for Government. Why was that legislation not introduced? Will it be introduced?
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: He has an obligation to answer a very straight question I put to him. Will he introduce the legislation as committed to on page 3 of the programme for Government?
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I do not want an update. Either the Taoiseach will introduce the legislation or he will not.
- Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Or else, the Taoiseach is guilty of gross hypocrisy in terms of how he has been behaving on this issue. Will he introduce it?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will he at least supplement, from a national perspective, the draconian cuts he has presided over and return autonomy to the local rural development companies?
- Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.