Results 20,521-20,540 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): National Awards Scheme (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I trust Deputy Adams is not referring to republican royalty.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): National Awards Scheme (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Was that the official Blueshirts?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the suggestion that the Economic Management Council should not be retained after the fiscal crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2157/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Economic Management Council last met. [9967/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the Economic Management Council meeting held in March 2015. [12697/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I put it to the Taoiseach that from day one the main concern of the Government has been to spin its role on a range of issues rather than showing form in terms of substance. Central to all this was the establishment of a Cabinet committee which was pompously titled the Economic Management Council. An army of advisers spent countless hours talking about the importance of the EMC, themselves...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will the fiscal council be consulted on the spring statement?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am talking about the spring statement.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said the EMC was established for a specific reason and that it allowed for very regular contact. This seems a very poor reason for the establishment of the EMC. The Taoiseach can have this regular contact with the Tánaiste whenever he wants to. Some two thirds of the measures needed to reach the 3% deficit target had been taken by the previous Government before the EMC...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The spring statement will not be a budget, a White Paper or a Book of Estimates and it will contain no financial resolutions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not even a national development plan. Is it an election document? Should civil servants be involved in preparing it? Will the capital programme mentioned by the Taoiseach be yet another instalment in the series of documents and announcements we are getting on a regular basis?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Is it not the position that all this is about the electoral timetable as opposed to substantive fiscal or budgetary matters? There is a big question mark over the utilisation of the Civil Service in such a cynical exercise.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is dishonest. That is not the truth. All those issues were dealt with before anybody resigned. The Taoiseach should be honest.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is wrong.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: Two thirds of the decisions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is appalling.
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said he would write to me about proposed legislation. This legislation refers to the Government commitment to bring "to an end the unacceptable Executive practice where no record is kept of ministerial involvement with an issue and resulting decisions". The Taoiseach could not answer that basic point last week. In total, 23 meetings took place between Bord Gáis and the...
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: The former Minister, Phil Hogan, met with Ms Hynes in his ministerial office here with no civil servants in attendance and no notes taken. This is such a serious matter that the Taoiseach should make a statement to the House as to how that occurred. Huge amounts of public expenditure has been involved. It has been a huge debacle.
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: It has cost the country a fortune. The net revenue will be about €25 million in the end. It has been one botched episode after another. The Taoiseach said on page three of the programme for Government four years ago that this legislation would come in. Why was it not brought in four years ago?
- Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am talking about the Government’s record. It made this commitment on page three of its programme for Government. Last week, the Taoiseach did not answer me because he probably did not even realise it was there.