Results 33,401-33,420 of 51,063 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Justice and Equality appointed that confidential recipient. Does the Taoiseach think that is appropriate in the context of a conversation between a whistleblower and the confidential Garda recipient? There has been no denial since this was aired on the record of this House last week. I have seen and read the transcript myself. It is extremely disturbing and extremely sinister.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It saps any confidence one could now have in terms of how justice is being administered. Are we serious? What kind of a democracy are we talking about-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----when someone can say a Minister will go after a whistleblower?
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is one topic.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I find the Taoiseach's response extraordinary. I asked a very straightforward question in regard to that matter, namely, whether he would establish an independent panel of inquiry. He refused to answer it, and he went on a long rigmarole. I also asked him, as I made very clear at the outset of my question, about confidence in the administration of justice-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is the same issue.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Sorry. It is the relationship between the ombudsman's office and the Garda. The Minister himself has made the relationship between the Garda ombudsman's office and the Garda confidential recipient.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Minister himself has made that connection in the House. It is outrageous that an attempt should be made to suppress a legitimate issue I have raised-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: ------that goes to the very core of the administration of justice in this country.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not have the bottle to answer the question I put to him.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is not dramatics. I do not normally do this, a Cheann Comhairle, but this matter-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am here a long time, and I have never seen a leader of the Opposition interrupted so much at any time since Leaders' Questions came in.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I have never seen that type of intervention, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is unprecedented how you come in to protect certain situations. You made it clear to the Taoiseach that he dare not reply to a very fundamental question.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: If you would allow me to finish, I would finish, but you do not. I want a simple answer. It is on the record of this House since last Thursday that a whistleblower-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----was told by the Garda confidential recipient that the Minister for Justice and Equality will "go after you" if this material goes into the public domain. I can think of nothing more important-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am raising it, but you are trying to stop me raising it-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----and you are trying to stop the Taoiseach from answering it.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is a very simple question. Is the Taoiseach aware of it? Has the Taoiseach sought confirmation from the Minister? Is it because, and I do not want to cast any aspersions on the individual-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: No, because the whistleblower will say-----