Results 40,721-40,740 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: If the Minister is honest enough, he will inform the House the previous Government had drafted a Bill. That Government fell before it was due so it could not be introduced. The mid-term review of Fianna Fáil and the Green Party's programme for Government stated legislation to ban corporate donations would be introduced. The Bill was actually drafted when this Government came into power.
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: Our Bill in May contained some of that Bill's measures along with the Moriarty tribunal's recommendations. For some reason, the Minister keeps on with the untruth that there was no Bill ready. The Minister queried some of the text of our Bill. In my opening speech, I outlined a novel way of allowing this Bill progress to Committee Stage. In turn, external experts could address the...
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: Why will the Minister not tell us what it intends to do about corporate donations?
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: We did.
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: That is outrageous. The Minister knows damn well there was legislation prepared.
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: Are we going to have a referendum then? The Minister should tell the House.
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: I thank all Deputies who contributed to the debate. I was disappointed with the Minister's response in not facilitating the passage of this Bill to Committee Stage. I want to debunk the myth that nothing has happened over the past decade in regard to political funding. Clearly, there has been incremental regulation of political funding and contributions to political parties, such as...
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: I invite the Minister to confirm that because there is a procedure in the House whereby someone-----
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: I assume the fact the Minister-----
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: Or the posters.
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: That is undemocratic.
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: That is undemocratic.
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: Hence, the House could not discuss the reason the German Parliament was discussing the Irish budget this morning.
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: A Bill was ready when the Government took office.
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: No, that is incorrect.
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Bill was ready when the Government took office.
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: We are paying it back.
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, I seek the guidance of the Chair and I seek the adjournment of the House on the business before us to allow the Taoiseach to come to the House to explain how the finance committee of the Bundestag received detailed information about the forthcoming budget in advance of Irish parliamentarians. It is an unprecedented and a very serious situation and the Taoiseach, as Head...
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: I will do so but I ask the Government representative, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan, if he would be prepared to amend the Order of Business so that the House could discuss and debate this unprecedented situation. I know the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is in a difficult position but it is absolutely unprecedented that another member state...
- Private Members' Business: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht (Uimh. 2) 2011: An Dara Céim, Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Nov 2011)
Micheál Martin: I invite the Minister present to agree to a changing of the Order of Business.