Results 32,621-32,640 of 51,015 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Commemorative Events (8 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: 42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had regarding inviting members of the British royal family to the 1916 commemorations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19928/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Commemorative Events (8 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: 43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has asked any other heads of state here to commemorate 1916; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19929/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (8 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: 121. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he or his Department officials have had any meetings to discuss the 1916 commemorations recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19930/14]
- Order of Business (7 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: Again, I say it was wrong of the Taoiseach not to consult with the leaders of the Opposition in regard to what he has just announced to the House in the context of the Guerin investigation. It would have been useful if the Taoiseach had shared some of the main headlines and content of that report because we had no indication the report had reached his desk or that it would have such dramatic...
- Order of Business (7 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----and the Taoiseach has indicated that a commission of investigation will be established following the recommendations of the report. Does the Taoiseach then intend to have a full debate on the report in the House next week? He indicated that time would be made available for a comprehensive debate on it. Will the Taoiseach confirm whether that is the order in which the Government...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: I would have appreciated some consultation on the issue, given that the Guerin report followed the presentation of issues to the Taoiseach by me in the Chamber related to very serious issues that merited further investigation. In good faith, the Taoiseach appointed a senior counsel to examine them. I sent the material to the Taoiseach. I am at a loss in the sense that I do not have...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: This is Leaders' Questions.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: I had questions originally for the Minister, Deputy Alan Shatter, in relation to the Data Protection Acts.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is not the point. Something very urgent and profound has been raised by the Taoiseach by way of an information statement.
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: No opportunity has been given to Opposition Members to respond to it. I understand there may be reasons for this, but I ask the Taoiseach if he can outline to the House the nature of the conclusions of Mr. Guerin's report that have led to the Minister's resignation. It is a very significant outcome of the report that it caused the Minister to resign. Can the Taoiseach outline whether the...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: On a personal level, it is a very difficult day for any Minister to have to resign. On a political and a policy level, we certainly had differences with the Minister, Deputy Alan Shatter. I recall his rather trenchant - or very strong - comments on this issue in the House, but be that as it may. I take it that the Taoiseach has read the report and that, therefore, he must have had...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am still unclear on the necessity for the Minister to resign or the reasons the report led to his resignation. Was the Taoiseach of the opinion that it made that a necessity? Can he outline to the House in any shape or detail what the report states? I take it that he is confirming that a separate commission of investigation to the one in relation to Garda taping will be established to...
- Leaders' Questions (7 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: May I make a comment?
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (7 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions that have been made to cater for the 29 children on waiting lists to attend a school (details supplied) in County Meath; the options available to the parents of these children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20532/14]
- Europe Week: Statements (6 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: Commemorating the Schuman Declaration through Europe Day is rightly focused on stepping away from the day-to-day debates on policy proposals. It is an invitation to us all to look instead at the bigger picture, the fundamental achievements and directions of what remains the most successful inter-state organisation in history. The European Union has many failings, but they come nowhere near...
- Order of Business (6 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: Is that later tonight?
- Order of Business (6 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: I raised earlier with the Taoiseach the shocking situation pertaining to the removal of a medical card from Alex Coyle, the presentation of that issue on "The Saturday Night Show" by his parents, and the subsequent commentary by the Jack & Jill Children's Foundation to the effect that it has come across 300 children in similar situations, and it will have more to say about this later....
- Order of Business (6 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: They are. Thousands of them-----
- Order of Business (6 May 2014)
Micheál Martin: General practitioners throughout the country are now publishing details of their patients on Twitter at #cardwatch. Many desperately hard cases are emerging from all areas of the country, and it is incredible that the Taoiseach keeps denying it.