Results 33,081-33,100 of 51,063 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am glad the Taoiseach will be-----
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Government has a habit of taking some Bills on Second Stage but then letting them linger forever.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The key point of the Bill is to put protections in place for those who hold mortgages that are being sold off by the IBRC.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: On Friday two non-Government Deputies will propose legislation, which will be rejected by Ministers in prepared speeches. The Government will add this week to the list of meetings of the Dáil and declare that in year three of the democratic revolution we are doing more work than ever. This debate is a transparent political sham. Nothing will change because of anything that is said...
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Government does not create jobs when it misses every single growth target it sets.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, I did not interrupt any speaker in this House today - not one. The Deputy should allow some semblance of democracy. It is in short supply from him and from Members on that side of the House.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The economy today is smaller than predicted in the first Fine Gael-Labour Party budget, by more than €5 billion. The Government has never introduced a measure to which it has attached a specific jobs target. In this context, claims to be delivering on jobs are clearly untrue. The Government is not creating jobs; businesses are creating jobs using the underlying strengths of the...
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I do not want to delay proceedings further, but I ask the Taoiseach to clarify whether there will be time for questions and answers after each Minister's contribution, which is what was suggested earlier.
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: In fairness, that is not happening in the case of the Ministers for Health, the Environment, Community and Local Government and Children and Youth Affairs. Our spokespersons will not come in on the issues of health, the environment and children, mainly because of the availability of Ministers and so forth. That will not actually happen, even though the Taoiseach mentioned that there would...
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Yes, but the Taoiseach mentioned that there would be questions and answers. I take it that-----
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Just statements.
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Not agreed.
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The reason this has been proposed is to get over a difficulty and problem which emerged this morning, and the lack of preparation by the Government side for this debate is evident-----
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----in the way it wants to organise this block by block, in other words to dilute the capacity of each Opposition party-----
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----to have its 20 minutes-----
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: No it was not.
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Stagg was not even party to it but he is such a merciful person.
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: He is all mercy and generosity. We all know about it. All I want to say is there were issues about speaking slots all morning. The Government side did not know how to order the state of affairs. I know the Ceann Comhairle's office had its views on the options for former members of Fine Gael with regard to speaking priorities and each party getting a block of time to respond.
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: In essence what the Government proposed was a fragmented position for the Opposition whereby each speaker from the various parties would have seven minutes. It was very unacceptable from our perspective. The whole week is a farce. The idea the Dáil should have to spend three days backslapping the Government is a farce and ridiculous.
- Business of Dáil (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Government does not have legislation to bring forward so we could have the normal week everybody would want, which would allow for Order of Business and questions to the Taoiseach.