Results 1,101-1,120 of 50,134 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----is something for the entire Oireachtas to give due consideration to and have a genuine debate about it, not something that is rammed through at the death of a Government.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: We have not. There has been good, constructive engagement with the Scottish Government, to be fair, over the last number of years on this issue. Actually, it was the last British Government that did not facilitate an agreement on research and so forth that had been arrived at between the Scottish Government and the Irish Government. We have reactivated that with the new British...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is a very good idea from the Deputy and there are issues, as he has described, in Glanmire this week. Across the country, we have had appalling conditions of animal cruelty, particularly in respect of horses and that needs to stop and the agencies need to get stronger and be more effective. The idea of appointing an equine officer in every local authority makes absolute sense to me....
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: That is a very good idea also. The methodology for the appointment of State boards changed some years ago; there is a greater reliance on the PAS system and I am not sure that has been ideal either. We need to look more broadly at experiences and expertise that would add a certain competence or discipline to a board, such as cost control or accountancy. There was an article written this...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: You have it right throughout every debate. There is not enough examination of how the existing resources are properly spent or allocated. I agree with the Deputy's broader point.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I agree with the Deputy and that is why the last Government in the last number of months proposed structures to reform the Road Safety Authority, in terms of dividing work particularly in terms of the operational issues like driver testing, so there will be a more focused approach on that which is separate to the broader work the RSA is engaged in with respect to road safety. A new CEO for...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: The immediate issue is primarily the allocation of resources and also working through what we mean by public health model and how we integrate it with the school-based model for children from the age of four and a half or four years upwards. That is the big question. We then have to ask about the funding implications of that and identify how much would it cost and how we would plan, in...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I understand what Deputy Doherty is at here. Deputy Michael Lowry is an independent TD. He is not one of ours.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I will say one thing. Sinn Féin needs to reflect. A funeral happened this week. While I have great time for the victims and for wife and those who have lost a loved one, the truth is that Deputy Doherty's party called somebody who murdered five innocent people in a bar and injured 16 more and who was involved in the murder of a trainee garda and a member of the Defence Forces in...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: What Michael Lowry did-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----pales into insignificance in terms of what the members of your movement did. Please-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I would ask Deputies Doherty and McDonald-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----to ask members-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----of your movement what they did. Do not be so judgmental. I will not be getting involved in what the Moriarty tribunal.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: You have some nerve.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Taoiseach, please.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: In terms of recruitment, everyone wants us to get more gardaí as quickly as we possibly can and to get them trained and out on the street in order to increase policing. That is the whole objective of people going into Templemore. On the precise arrangements involved, I will engage with the Minister for Justice and raise with him the issue the Deputy has raised.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I will ask the Minister for Justice to-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: My honest view is that vetting is important but that it is overstated.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: What does vetting actually mean?