Results 32,981-33,000 of 51,063 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: What is the Taoiseach talking about?
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should check with his Whip about reading the minutes of Cabinet meetings, which he announced to the Dáil yesterday. Did he know about that?
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Government Chief Whip read the minutes of Cabinet meetings.
- Order of Business (12 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: He went back on them all despite the confidentiality.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is pathetic.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: All very convenient.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Last night on the national broadcaster's "Six One News", elements of the Garda Síochána Inspectorate report were leaked and the Minister for Justice and Equality gave an interview about the report and reforms that may emanate from its recommendations, in advance of any consideration by the Cabinet of this report. He did so in a selective and self-serving manner. This brings the...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: He went outside of the House to say that their accusations were wild and groundless and lacked evidence. I ask the Taoiseach to consider that if the whistleblowers in the Neary case had been treated in that manner what the outcome would have been. Has the Taoiseach spoken to the Minister for Justice and Equality about this matter? I know he finds it very difficult to unequivocally...
- Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, what is obvious over the past year is that the system tried to bury this issue and the Minister went along with that modus operandi, despite the Road Safety Authority sounding alarm bells with him. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Leo Varadkar, accepted the credibility of the whistleblower on this issue and I know he stood his ground with...
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: On a point of clarification, will there be an Order of Business tomorrow?
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I note to the Tánaiste that during the last debate I mentioned to the Minister of State, Deputy Kehoe, that while he was no fan of the North Korean way of doing things, there might have been a time during his student days that the Tánaiste had a sneaking regard for the activities in that country.
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Not for North Korea. I question the necessity to resume statements on Government priorities for the year ahead. We have not had a discussion on real priorities. Everything else has been put back, including funding of third level education in respect of which the report has been buried in the HEA. The report on small schools has been buried within the Department and universal health...
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Government did not do that.
- Order of Business (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: We are not going to waste our time this week.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: With all due respect, I did not mention the Ceann Comhairle at all. This is something that has been floating in the public domain for about ten years.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Ceann Comhairle should not have clarified it. He is too touchy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Fine. I accept that. An argument has been put forward in the public domain to which I now subscribe and have included in my party's policy, which we submitted to the Government, to the effect that, in future, it would be good for the Parliament if it elected the Ceann Comhairle by secret ballot. People might disagree with that view, but it is a legitimate suggestion for parliamentary...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: A democratic revolution was promised, but the Government's behaviour in the past three years has not matched that. If one does not accept the diktat of Government, one does not serve as a parliamentarian in any real shape or form.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: This is the message that the Government has given time and again to anyone who stands out from the herd. If we really want to change politics, this must change.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Through the Chair, I want to make the point that I never pursued the guillotine in respect of any legislation that I tabled. I was in the Departments of education, health and enterprise.