Results 20,241-20,260 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when his Government expects an agreement on the all-party talks in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46811/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 17. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the meeting with the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, on 11 and 12 December 2014 in Belfast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2160/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, regarding the recent deal in the North of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2177/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, regarding the lack of agreement between the parties in Northern Ireland regarding flags and parades; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2178/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 20. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the 23 December 2014 Stormont House Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3268/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 21. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the joint paper that the Irish and British Governments agreed before talks took place on 11 December 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3276/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 22. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding his telephone conversation with Prime Minister Cameron; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3277/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. It is four months since Northern Ireland-related topics have arisen during Questions to the Taoiseach. That is an example of the impact of cancelling questions on Wednesdays, which the Taoiseach did some years ago, and of failing to re-schedule Tuesday sessions when he is away on other business. It is also a good illustration of how Northern Ireland...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: I was referring to Deputy Adams's community.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Adams should look at what his people said at the time of Paul Quinn's death. It was deeply offensive to his parents - deeply offensive.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: They were undermining the man.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is what happened.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is proposed in the Stormont House agreement that the number of Members in the Northern Assembly be reduced at some stage. To what degree was the Northern Ireland budget considered in the talks? I do not know whether the Taoiseach saw BBC's "Spotlight" programme on the very significant number of fictitious front organisations which were receiving publicly funded rent payments from Sinn...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: It has not been denied. There was radio silence on it in the North.
- Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: We have spoken for a number of weeks about the ongoing accident and emergency crisis in hospitals. The situation has been getting worse. There have been days on which more than 600 patients have not had proper accommodation in our hospitals. The Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, does a regular soundbite in which he says he must redouble his efforts and people must move on. Today,...
- Order of Business (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is the Courts Bill 2013.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commissions of Inquiry (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 164. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of times a draft motion on setting up a commission of inquiry has been circulated to a legal firm prior to or after the Government agreeing same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6630/15]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commissions of Inquiry (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 165. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times a draft motion on setting up a commission of inquiry has been requested by legal firms to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6631/15]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commissions of Inquiry (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 166. To ask the Taoiseach the protocol in place in his Department to deal with requests from legal firms for draft motions on setting up commissions of inquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6632/15]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Commissions of Inquiry (17 Feb 2015)
Micheál Martin: 167. To ask the Taoiseach the number of requests he has received directly from Members of Dáil Éireann requesting draft motions on setting up a commission of inquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6633/15]