Results 42,501-42,520 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Northern Ireland Issues (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach agree there has been a surprising lack of engagement by Ministers with their counterparts in the North in the three months since the appointment of the Government? One cannot present informal and brief meetings as substantive engagements. It is accepted that in order to ensure we cement the advances of recent years it is important there be regular, formal substantive...
- Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will consider allowing joint Oireachtas committees play a greater role in the selection of candidates to State boards other than chair persons. [10466/11]
- Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will allow appointees to State boards other than chairpersons, to appear before Oireachtas committees to assess their suitability. [10467/11]
- Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach agree that this is a significant reversal from previous positions he adopted on this issue? It is now very clear that the Government will appoint chairpersons and that a person will only resign if he or she makes a fool of himself or herself before the designated committee. If the Taoiseach believes the system of appointing persons to State boards is wrong, why is he not...
- Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am not responsible for the pre-election promises the Taoiseach made. He should allow himself to be judged by the commitments he made. He can comment all he likes on previous governments and previous Ministers. He was also a Minister and he appointed in accordance with tradition, friendship, Fine Gael trustees and so on like that. Does the Taoiseach not agree that the system the...
- Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----when he gave authority to the committee to nominate people. Does the Taoiseach not agree that the Government has rowed back from its pre-election commitment to allow a public appointments service to screen, if one likes, potential appointees to boards and to make those lists available to Ministers? That has all been dropped now. Why has the Taoiseach reversed that commitment he made...
- Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should have asked the Minister, Deputy Varadkar.
- Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I believe the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, might be meeting them now.
- Appointments to State Boards (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should answer the question.
- Consultancy Contracts (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the public affairs, public relations and advertising contracts that have been established by him since he has taken office. [10715/11]
- Consultancy Contracts (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I welcome the continuation of your predecessor's policy of not having such contracts.
- Consultancy Contracts (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: That is a fact. Has the Taoiseach determined whether any State bodies under his Department have taken a similar approach?
- Consultancy Contracts (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Thank you.
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of any arrangements put in place under the control of his Department other than Cabinet committees to coordinate policy through Government. [11802/11]
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will detail the economic tasks administered on his behalf by him which do not fall within the realm of Cabinet confidentiality following his revised approach to Cabinet committees. [12097/11]
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will give details of his contribution to the jobs initiative. [12832/11]
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach had better not tell Deputy Quinn.
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: Questions Nos. 5 and 6 deal with the Taoiseach's role in co-ordinating economic policy and Question No. 7 is about the jobs initiative. I will deal with the three of them and I will ask permission for supplementary questions, especially for Question No. 7. The Taoiseach has restructured the Department in such a way as to remove nearly all of his work from parliamentary scrutiny and put it...
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not actually respond to the questions I put about accountability to the House with regard to his own work in co-ordinating economic policy across Government. What the Government is putting in place is a structure that shields the Taoiseach from any real accountability to the House on economic matters. That is reflected in his utilisation of Cabinet confidentiality in...
- Policy Development and Implementation (31 May 2011)
Micheál Martin: I said "accountable".