Results 41,401-41,420 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: The never-never.
- Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: It is very limited.
- Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: That is not true. The opportunities are becoming fewer and fewer and the Taoiseach is avoiding the issue all the time.
- Cabinet Committees (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is reducing his time in the House.
- EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the details and contents of bilateral contacts he has had with leaders of Eurozone countries since the last emergency meeting of Eurozone leaders. [24700/11]
- EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he has had any contact with Mr Jean Claude Trichet or Mr Mario Draghi since the last meeting of EU leaders; the nature and extent of each of these contacts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24701/11]
- EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach the contact he has had with Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy concerning proposals for amending the EU treaties discussed by them during recent weeks. [24702/11]
- EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach the preparations he has made for submitting proposals to the EU Council concerning the consideration of reforms to the governance of the Union and the Eurozone. [24703/11]
- EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach the differences between the text agreed by him at the July meeting of Eurozone leaders concerning Ireland's corporate taxation and the text proposed in March. [24731/11]
- EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: No, it was not. They are not secured.
- EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: I have tabled five of the questions included in this group and I hope I receive a reasonable opportunity. I agree with what Deputy Adams stated on the unsatisfactory nature of grouping all of these questions, which are on quite different topics. The Taoiseach is spinning a great yarn about the international response to Ireland and our approach. The bottom line is that the response to...
- EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----that Ireland has bitten the bullet. It has nothing to do with what the Taoiseach did since he came into power because he has taken no substantive decision on anything. It is wrong of him to keep pedalling and spinning this yarn.
- EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: That is what it is; it is a yarn.
- EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach agree that he voted against every one of those measures?
- EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: He behaved in a reckless and irresponsible way and is now claiming credit six months later because he has not changed any of them. That is basically the factual position.
- EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach about the summit meeting which refused to address the issue of burning bondholders. Does he agree that the core issue is again about what politicians told the Irish people in a fundamental communication? I told people in advance of the election that there could not be a unilateral burning of bondholders.
- EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: I put it to the Taoiseach that the public was fundamentally misled on the issue in that he and his party told them there could be unilateral burning of bondholders. The Tánaiste said that it would be Frankfurt's way or Labour's way. I will put the core question to the Taoiseach again because I did not get an answer. Does he not agree it is now on the agenda? Perhaps he cannot comment...
- EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----yet we are being told that anything to do with non-secured bondholders in Anglo Irish Bank is completely off the agenda. It is wrong of the Taoiseach as well to use the term-----
- EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----"sleight of hand". I ask him to withdraw the term in regard to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan's late predecessor. It is unworthy. The Taoiseach is aware that it was quite transparent at the time and it was brought before the House.
- EU Affairs (27 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: That is fine if issues arise on renegotiating the agreement. I have no difficulty with that.