Results 33,521-33,540 of 51,063 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: -----had a point when they said that there was no point in applying because the jobs were spoken for already and that there was an element of an inside track. Does the Taoiseach believe that was right or that it was appropriate and correct? Will the Taoiseach undertake to publish all material now in respect of Irish Water? Will he publish all the service level agreements? Will he publish...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach's answer has no credibility and is not correct. Everything we have found out to date has been via the media, not from the Taoiseach or the Minister, Deputy Hogan. I will leave others to judge the statement I have just made. The Taoiseach should not come to the House and try to pretend there has been full transparency from the Government in the past 12 to 15 months in respect...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Expenditure (28 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: 543. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied with the tendering processes that Irish Water is using. [3930/14]

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: When?

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: When will it come in?

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday, when speaking about the health service, the Taoiseach said that, overall, the service provided had not diminished in its impact or effect and that while costs had been extracted from the delivery of health services, there had been no diminution in their quality. He said this on the very day the Irish Emergency Medicine Trainees Association sent a letter to HIQA stating current...

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: He was, yes.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: He did not agree to it.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: Maybe the Taoiseach should have talked to the Minister, Deputy Hogan, about Irish Water.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: I spoke to the Chief Whip. We discussed it and my party opposed it.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: We voted "Níl".

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: We do not agree with that.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach controls everything that goes on in here.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Bill was never enacted, committed or commenced.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: That is the very reason we oppose it. Every Government Deputy will produce a Bill and leave it there resting and doing nothing while nobody else can produce a similar Bill. That is the point.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: Who signed that?

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is trying to raise a point of order.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: No, it is not agreed. Fianna Fáil is opposing No. 24a in the first instance which relates to changes to Standing Orders, the first of which deals with priority and ordinary oral questions from spokespersons which I believe presents difficulties for Independent Members and the Technical Group, in particular. Second, I refer to the proposal regarding identical or substantially similar...

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: Opposition Members were absolutely correct and justified in so doing.

Order of Business (22 Jan 2014)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is not listening to the Opposition. There is no sincerity in terms of Dáil reform or any commitment to it.