Results 33,021-33,040 of 51,063 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Not true. I did not say that at all.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Is the Minister of State going to revert to the minutes?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: This Government controls the committees. Bar two, every one of them is chaired by Government Members.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The property tax was subject to it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am not in the Chair.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Has he?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yes. He was the then Chief Whip.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Is the Minister of State claiming that Seamus Brennan did nothing?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Has the 1997-2001 period been revisited?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Minister of State could be excused for that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Minister of State said at the beginning of his reply to my question that he read the minutes of previous Cabinet meetings and that he saw no evidence of any reform initiatives. Would he accept that he would have been in breach of Cabinet confidentiality if he read the minutes of Cabinet meetings of previous Cabinets? I am very surprised to hear him say that because-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: He said the minutes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: As a Government Minister, I never had, nor did I seek, nor was I ever informed that I would have, access to either the agendas or the minutes of Governments that went before me or before the Governments in which I served. I found it extraordinary that the Minister of State made that assertion that he read previous Cabinet minutes. That is what he said. He said he had read the minutes of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I would suggest that even this is in breach of Cabinet confidentiality. There is a constitutional framework-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I think it is a very serious issue. There is a constitutional framework-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I put it to the Minister of State that there is a constitutional framework which governs access to Cabinet papers. From my understanding, nobody has the right or entitlement under the law to access the Cabinet meetings, be they the agenda or minutes, of previous Governments unless it is within the law. In others, it is a 12 year or 30 year rule. Has the Minister of State been poring over...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I did not think I was entitled to look at them.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Minister of State needs to clarify urgently in a statement what access he had to the Cabinet meetings of previous Governments. I put it to him that, of course, there has been rolling Dáil reform. It includes the ending of the dual mandate between local government and the Dáil. The bringing in of Leaders' Questions was an initiative of a previous Government. Initiatives like...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am not.