Results 32,681-32,700 of 51,299 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (17 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: 140. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress he and his officials are making with the EU regarding dealing with Ireland's debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25779/14]
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: I have read the Department of Finance's response to the decision of the European Commission to open a formal inquiry into a number of individual EU member states, particularly in respect of the application of rulings or opinions relating to a particular multinational company that has been in Ireland for well over 30 years and that at times employs up to 3,000 people. We need a comprehensive...
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Is the Government prepared to give decent Government time for a comprehensive debate on this issue involving foreign direct investment and multinationals but also SMEs? Let us have a genuine and open debate about where the country should go on this. We need to be far more assertive and robust in the EU than perhaps we have been to date.
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am not saying that.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Why is the Government side so upset?
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Last Friday, I read in The Irish Timesabout an extraordinary letter from the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, to party colleagues in relation to a number of matters. Principally, the letter stated that the Minister of State would not stand over a Taoiseach firing a Garda Commissioner without so much as a phone call to the leader of the Labour Party. That is a very serious assertion by...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Why did the Taoiseach not tell the Tánaiste at the time that he was sending the Secretary General to the home of the former Garda Commissioner following a meeting he had had with officials and with the former Minister, Deputy Shatter? Has the Taoiseach spoken to the Minister of State, Deputy White, who is a member of Government and has made this assertion publicly?
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, one of the Taoiseach's Ministers has made the charge, and the Taoiseach has done nothing about that. He has not even talked to him about it. The Taoiseach has some neck to come in here and lecture me about that when one of his Ministers made the same assertion.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: The point is that the former Garda Commissioner, whether or not people liked or disagreed with his policies, was the first person to highlight the issue of the recordings at Garda stations. This was not about a specific phone recording. The Taoiseach needs to stop changing his story as time goes on. This was about the wider issue of phone recordings at Garda stations, about which the...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: The idea that this came as a bolt out of the blue is difficult to comprehend. The essential point is that the Taoiseach, in an unprecedented move which could have only one outcome, sent the Secretary General to the home of the former Garda Commissioner and he did not alert the Cabinet to that. The following morning, prior to the Cabinet meeting, the Secretary General rang the former Garda...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----despite the fact that the Cabinet knew nothing about it. Ministers are on record as saying that they knew nothing about the phone recording controversy or about anybody being sent to the former Garda Commissioner's house. Square that with the truth. It is a serious issue. The Taoiseach cannot hide behind the Fennelly inquiry for a year and a half and hope that it will be buried. He...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: I stand over it.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: What is the Taoiseach's point?
- Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is another stitch-up.
- Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach realise the degree to which he is undermining the impartiality of the committee?
- Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach needs to respect the House.
- Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am showing respect but what is happening here is extraordinary.
- Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: My behaviour is not extraordinary at all.
- Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: What is extraordinary is that the Taoiseach has stated that he is going to dictate the terms of reference.
- Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Micheál Martin: This is extraordinary stuff.