Results 38,761-38,780 of 51,299 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: Take the launch in February, for example, when the Government claimed it would create 100,000 jobs. The Department of Finance's documentation a month and a half later claimed there would be 61,000 jobs, some 40,000 of a difference.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: That is why people are cynical.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am asking a supplementary question on a matter raised under the Standing Order, which I am entitled to do.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am asking a question on a matter raised, namely, unemployment. I am simply putting it to the Taoiseach-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----that the SME sector is hurting very badly and is not getting access to credit in spite of what the Taoiseach claimed. His suggestion of a partial loan guarantee scheme is marginal and will have little or no impact in terms of employment in the SME sector, or access to credit.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: The measures the Taoiseach has taken since the budget, from the pension levy which took €500 million from pensioners-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----to the reduction in the capital programme, from the extra costs on business in terms of redundancy costs and so on-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: All of these are making the situation worse.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is about time-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: With the greatest respect, a Cheann Comhairle, I have been interrupted non-stop since I started. I am entitled to ask a question.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am entitled to raise the matter-----

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am entitled to ask a question.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am not questioning the Chair at all.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: I am endeavouring to ask a question on a matter raised, which I am entitled to do under Standing Orders.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is not another speech.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: I asked a long time ago to be facilitated by the Deputies opposite but they do not like hearing the truth. The truth is not good for the people who are unemployed.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: How dare the Taoiseach? I have a strong record in Europe. He said something similar yesterday------

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: I ask for that to be withdrawn, Sir.

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2012)

Micheál Martin: That is an untruth.