Results 33,681-33,700 of 51,063 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: We do not.
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: Could you blame anybody, a Cheann Comhairle?
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: I wish to put on record how appalled we are at the Government's insistence on making this proposition to the Dáil this morning. It demonstrates an absolute lack of respect for the House, its Members and those who elected us. It demonstrates a lack of respect for any sense of fair procedure or deliberation on the formulation of legislation. The Bill is a very substantive and...
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: This is a serious issue and I will be very brief. It goes to the heart of whether the Dáil is relevant. The Government said it would introduce a democratic revolution and that there would be radical political reform. This was mentioned during the Seanad referendum debate but none of it is coming to pass. In fact, the trend is in the opposite direction. The Government is shutting...
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: For some unexplained reason, it has been deleted. We have no opportunity to amend that or seek its reinsertion. We have no opportunity to seek the reinsertion of the role of the EPA-----
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----as the supervisory authority regarding the environmental objectives of the agency. What the Government is doing is a complete sham and it is wrong.
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: It sends out the wrong signals to people-----
- Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----about how seriously the Government takes the Legislature.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (19 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: 342. To ask the Minister for Health if the claim on 20 November 2013 that some 20,000 new discretionary medical cards have been granted this year alone is correct; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54812/13]
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Finance when asked what he was looking for said: "It's clear you've never been to the fair of Glin or sold a calf. Sure if I had told them the minimum, that's what they would give me". Last week, it was revealed that in spite of his experience selling calves and visiting the fair of Glin, he had got exactly nothing.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: Given that the Government has given up, the minimum it owes the people is a statement on what it looked for and why it has accepted receiving nothing at all. We also need to hear why the Government appears not even to be asking for full equality for Ireland regarding its debts. We have received the same interest rates as other countries but the ECB is retaining its profits on holdings of...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am talking about the fact that the ECB is retaining its profits on the holdings of Irish bonds. In the case of Greece, it returns these profits.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: It has always been the case from the outset that what works for one should work for the others just as it did with interest rate reductions. We got these reductions because other countries got there first and we took them. The ECB often rightly points out that its credit has maintained the Irish and European markets. This is the duty of a central bank and not something for which anyone...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: My party and I completely reject this. The United Nations is not working as it should but we must not abandon it as an essential part of the international system. Ireland has, and always will have, a limited defence capability. Focusing this on humanitarian actions is not only the right thing to do, it has full democratic legitimacy. There is no pressing need for a changed defence...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: I wish the Taoiseach a very happy and peaceful Christmas. I will do my best to ensure it is peaceful. I also wish the Ceann Comhairle a happy and peaceful Christmas, free from the cacophony of sound which often emanates from the House in his direction. I wish the Captain of the Guard, his staff and all of the officials who have been supportive of debates and committee meetings a happy...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: By contrast the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, has stated this on a number of occasions, including last week in The Irish Times, although it has received little or no notice. Time and again independent experts have stated European policies, or rather their failures, were directly linked with Ireland needing a bailout in 2010. The ESM and the policies of Mario Draghi at the...
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is extraordinary that the Taoiseach has published the health service plan today and has deliberately avoided any opportunity for the House in plenary session to debate what by any measure is a substantial Estimate which illustrates how the books were cooked on budget day and how we were deliberately given false figures which did not last a couple of weeks and which went through some...
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach undertake to give time tomorrow in the House to debate the health service plan at plenary session? Why did he so cynically choreograph business to avoid any meaningful debate on a set of Estimates on health that have been proved to be bogus from the outset when they were presented to the House on budget day?
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. I find it extraordinary that the Government proposes to allow only two hours of debate for Second Stage for the Water Services (No. 2) Bill tomorrow, with Committee and Report Stages to be given an hour and a half on the same day. It is an unprecedented level of guillotining of an important and substantial Bill. This Bill has been significantly changed from the original...
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: In addition to that-----