Results 701-720 of 50,064 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: What is being proposed for 60 TDs is that they would have an opportunity-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----of eight minutes on a Tuesday and eight minutes on a Wednesday to ask a question of the Taoiseach of the day. That actually means that for an individual in that group of 60, it could be an opportunity-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I have not interrupted anyone. It basically means that once a year-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----a backbench TD may get that opportunity to speak in these sorts of questions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: For all that, the Opposition has manufactured a political row and has raised this issue to heights that are quite farcical given the enormity of the issues we have to face as a country.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: If I may say-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Again, I respect-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I respect the rights of every Deputy who is elected to this House. I respect their rights.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I respect their rights to be heard-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----as well as their rights to speak.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: There is an attempt already to frustrate my attempt to speak here this afternoon in response to Deputy McDonald.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: In a more serious vein, the Opposition has been endeavouring to, if you like, direct or dictate a new departure, whereby it becomes the Opposition-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Opposition is now saying that it is up to it to decide who sits where in this House, who forms what group-----
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: During my visit to Washington D.C. for St. Patrick’s Day, I met with representatives from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the American Jewish Committee (AJC). It was a useful opportunity to listen to the concerns of these groups and to discuss how better to combat antisemitism which is sadly on the rise globally. I updated the representatives on the most recent actions taken...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The table below details amounts spent on all goods, services and works for the five years 2019 to 2023 (the last year for which audited figures are currently available) by the Department of the Taoiseach and the National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO) - the only body under the aegis of the Department of the Taoiseach. All procurement by the Department of the Taoiseach and...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Section 2 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1974 explicitly provides that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) shall be independent in the performance of their functions. One of the ways that effect is given to this independence is that funding for the Director’s Office is provided through a separate Vote; Vote 5 – Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. While I...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Department did not have any secondments from consulting firms in the period specified.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Contracts (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Neither the Department of the Taoiseach nor the National Economic and Social Development Office - the only body under the aegis of the Department - have awarded any contracts to, or used the services of, the hotel in question from 1st November 2024 to date.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Social Media (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The information sought by the Deputy in relation to the Department of the Taoiseach and the National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO) – the only body under the aegis of the Department of the Taoiseach - is set out in the tables below. Department of the Taoiseach Platform Total Videos* Videos with Speech** Videos with Speech that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Commemorative Events (19 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----was a member of the Labour Party and had a very distinguished career here in terms of equality legislation in particular so there is an honourable and very positive Jewish tradition in Ireland and I think this is something we must protect. It is a small community. That is the context. In response to Deputy Bacik on hate speech legislation, that Act was amended last year. We just...