Results 37,601-37,620 of 51,299 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: I think the Ceann Comhairle is being very unfair in his comments about people asking questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: I am getting annoyed about the matter.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: How many times have you called Deputy Adams on Leaders' Questions?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: I have been in this House for a long time but I have never seen anything like the nature and demeanour of the Ceann Comhairle's interventions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: I have never seen such behaviour in all the time I have been in this House.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: I do not appreciate this type of behaviour from the Ceann Comhairle.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: I have never seen this kind of behaviour but from the Ceann Comhairle. I am getting annoyed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: He has an awful habit of intervening in a very nasty manner.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: I did not get a chance to ask a supplementary question earlier. The Taoiseach has admitted here that the positions for NESC were not advertised. I am not casting any aspersions on any individuals because I am sure they are fine academics but there are plenty of fine academics across the country. This is an example of the kind of insider appointments that the Taoiseach was allegedly...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Taoiseach if he has reviewed the recent operation of the Freedom of Information Act in his Department. [40268/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Legislation (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: One of the most obvious developments since the Taoiseach has taken up office is how often he makes claims for which he will not provide any backup. More than ever before, the Opposition and the media must rely on the Freedom of Information Act to check his claims and to seek information which should be in the public domain. In recent times the Taoiseach's Department has been invoking every...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: Prior to the general election we were promised there would be a broadening in the programme for Government. How many of the Taoiseach's appointees are persons who expressed an interest and have no connections with the political parties within the coalition?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: Were the positions in the NESC advertised?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: May I ask a brief supplementary question?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Taoiseach the board appointments he has made in the past 18 months; if there is a gender balance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40095/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Appointments to State Boards (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: There were three questions in the group. The first question was whether the Taoiseach can explain why he reiterated last year a rock-hard commitment that there would be a 40% gender balance rule applied. Clearly he has not abided by it. Can the Taoiseach explain the reasons he has not been in a position to abide by it and why the Government has not done so? The Taoiseach stated that the...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach voted for it though.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: I did issue a statement and I will also issue a very substantive statement tomorrow. We have 85 minutes of debate on it here tomorrow too.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach two questions which he did not answer. First, was he aware that the Tánaiste was pursuing an independent track and that his officials and advisers had been meeting with the various bidders and getting their opinions? Was the Taoiseach aware that the Tánaiste was pursuing that independent approach on the location of the national children's hospital? Second -...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----but, rather, that the best interests of the nation's children will be paramount in any decision.