Results 30,941-30,960 of 50,917 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach says.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has some neck. Get off the stage. "The money follows the patient."
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: What about the election after that?
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government said it would get rid of it.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach rewrite the programme for Government now that it will not happen in the lifetime of this Government? Is the Dutch model gone?
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Dutch model is gone.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: "The money follows the patient." It was a fair old election slogan.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am just reliving old times.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach read John Walshe's book?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach would have a unique insight into it. He would not have to watch it at all.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should have a look at it. It lays matters bare.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: They were inundated with calls from the Taoiseach's office to put people on boards.
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: There have been reports lately referring to the commitments of the Government to cut taxes at the top and lower levels. There are new reports about negotiations and the beginning of a new social dialogue or partnership. The Taoiseach may not be aware that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, said today that the Government intends to amend the FEMPI...
- Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: I would like to see a lot of this brought to fruition, including for example the programme for Government commitment on investment in the supply of more and better care for older people in the community. I have just asked about it during Leaders' Questions, but there is no money for it. The programme refers to additional funding each year for the care of older people, residential places,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if there is an agreed process in his Department for statutory board appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37625/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: The last part of the Taoiseach's answer was the most relevant to the questions asked, which were about whether there was an agreed process in the Department of the Taoiseach for statutory board appointments. As we discovered during the Seanad by-election last year, the Taoiseach and his staff take a very active role in board appointments across the Government. That came out sharply during...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: It would be interesting to see what leopard the Deputy would bring with his totalitarian approach.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: You are in your backside.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Jan 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why did he announce it at all?