Results 42,461-42,480 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (1 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: I and my party strongly oppose the proposal to rush through the House the motion concerning the Smithwick inquiry. It was established as a confidence-building measure and has proved we will go to any lengths to uncover whether officers of the State may have colluded with the IRA in the murder of two RUC officers. The motion which the Government wants to push through the House is far more...
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: We are more radical than you guys.
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Move to the left.
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Watch this space.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Last week a Cabinet Minister gave an extensive media briefing about policy on low-paid workers without clearing it with the Taoiseach or the Cabinet. This set off days of briefings and counter-briefings with no one any the wiser on Government policy and the Minister's personal agenda. This was unfortunate but not an isolated incident. In the past three weeks the Taoiseach and the Minister...
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Things are far more serious now.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The problem is that loose talk costs jobs. It costs jobs because-----
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----companies make decisions on where to invest, and they are watching this kind of stuff-----
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----and are filing reports. I do not know which Minister the Taoiseach will need to slap down next, but can he say to the House that he has spoken to his Ministers and explained to them why these solo runs are damaging? What is he doing to ensure this stops?
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Every time the Taoiseach is asked a question and is caught breaking a promise, he avoids answering the direct question asked. It seems his commitment to change has lasted about as long as the pledge of the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Quinn, on student fees. The Taoiseach will, I hope, have seen the detailed briefing on the damage done by the comments of the Minister for...
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am sure he would agree with that. This is what is being said in public analysis; I am just making the point.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am asking the Taoiseach my question. The Taoiseach should put an end to the theme emerging in public discourse following the comments of the Minister, Deputy Varadkar. I acknowledge he has gone some way towards doing so.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach ought to clarify, to the country and wider international community, whether the positions he expressed publicly yesterday and on which he was quoted in respect of the bailout programme, which is to run to the end of 2013, to the effect that Ireland has sufficient money in all circumstances to deal with it its obligations and that there will be no need for a second bailout...
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: We are well on track according to the Taoiseach.
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: That is fairly normal.
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: No. 23 on the Order Paper is the Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011. While I welcome the publication of the Government's Bill on corporate donations, it abandons the commitment to a complete ban outlined in the programme for Government.
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: That programme stated that the Government will introduce necessary legal and constitutional provisions to ban corporate donations to political parties. The outline of the Bill that has been published will allow corporate donations to continue and confirms that there will be no constitutional ban put to the people. There will be no complete ban on corporations. In the light of the...
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Not at all.
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Government voted down our Bill.
- Order of Business (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I would just like to make one point. Deputy Shatter's party has raised more in corporate donations in the last few years than any other political party in this House. That is a fact. His party has not been subjected to the same scrutiny.