Results 33,701-33,720 of 51,063 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----a provision relating to an independent assessment by the Environmental Protection Agency has also been removed.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am just making the point that it is a substantive Bill that demands serious consideration by the House. We are being allocated only two hours for Second Stage and one hour and 40 minutes for Committee Stage.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: We had a meeting this morning with the Taoiseach about Seanad reform. We were promised a whole lot of stuff about Dáil reform, accountability and meaningful consultation but it all counts for nothing when Bills such as this - it is controversial from the Government’s perspective because it brings in a mechanism for water charges - are rushed through. How come Bills dealing with...
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----and water charges are just rammed through the Dáil in three hours? Where is the room for amendments there? Why can the Taoiseach not put Committee Stage back to January or February? Why is it being rushed through?
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: Deputies opposite are laughing. If that is their concept of democracy in the House, then fine. They cannot go on pretending they are achieving a democratic revolution, because they are not. This flies in the face of any commitment by the Government to meaningful Dáil reform.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Government has deleted the key section in this regard.
- Order of Business (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: It can be dealt with in January. This proposal is a joke.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: With regard to the issue of clarity and freedom of information, the only reason the matter is with the appeals commissioner is that someone has objected to releasing all the files in regard to the request. The body that has objected is the Department of Finance. Only six out of 19 documents were released. All of the material should now be released in the interest of transparency and to...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: I referred to the Department.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is approximately 15 months since the original request was made.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: In the past few days in the media and elsewhere there have been very serious allegations made about NAMA and its operations. My colleague, Senator Darragh O'Brien, has come to possess material, about which he has spoken in the Seanad and which he will be sending to the Garda Síochána. I understand from media reports that a dossier on the behaviour of a previous employee has been...
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: Delayed again.
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: Have talks on the contract been initiated?
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: Tá sé ag caint mar gheall ar tuarascáil a bhaineann leis na scoileanna beaga.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: In his reply the Taoiseach said he had met certain people. I seek clarity on whom he met. Will he confirm he has not met the ICTU formally as a body?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: Has he met SIPTU or Mandate?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is clear that he does not want to return to the old partnership model, which is fine. Nonetheless, one of the biggest issues facing us which involves the social partners is pensions. ESB management, for example, did not cover itself in glory in how it approached the issue with workers, particularly how it managed the accounts and changed smartly from defined benefits to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: If the Taoiseach kept the channels open with the ICTU and others, it would help.
- Order of Business (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: When will the White Paper on universal health insurance be published? I note from the programme for Government that universal health insurance is to be introduced by 2016, but the legislative and organisational groundwork for the system is to be completed during the Government's term of office. We have not had a White Paper yet. Will it be published before the end of the session? Universal...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Social Partnership Meetings (17 Dec 2013)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met with the social partners recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39248/13]