Results 20,701-20,720 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----their concerns and asking for it to happen. For some reason the Dáil was continually misled over a two to three-year period and there was essentially a cover up.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: I would think that is a very serious and grave issue.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: There was a cover up over what was going on within IBRC, not just on this issue, I acknowledge, but also in respect of other big transactions. There were significant concerns in the Department of Finance but they were never shared with the Dáil until freedom of information documents were released.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why was there not an independent review and why did the Minister not reveal this information earlier?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: That has nothing to do with it.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Department of Finance appointed a person to IBRC.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: We have the necessary laws.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government fixed the result before it even started.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: 346. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his Department is aware of the delay in appointing the French ambassador to the embassy of the Holy See; his position on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16404/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Labour Court Recommendations (28 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: 391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that the Labour Court has ruled that the jobs evaluation exercise in the Tyndall Institute, University College Cork, is over, if her Department will now do what is right and fair and pay out as per the Labour Court recommendations outstanding from 2008 (LCR20577), to the Tyndall four; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday I asked the Taoiseach if the inquiry initiated by the Government into the IBRC and the Siteserv deal would cover the buying and selling of shares in the period in advance of the sale of Siteserv, and if we would have full transparency over who bought the shares and who benefited from the €5 million pay-out. I also want to deal with the relationship between IBRC and the...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer my questions at all. It is not good enough for him to say he assumes issues are being covered. The relationship between the Department of Finance and IBRC is not covered by this inquiry. The inquiry is ring-fenced to transactions and deciding whether commercially unsound decisions were made or material deficiencies existed. A commission of investigation would...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am making inquiries and I am finding out things. The William Frye report will be important because it will examine the way in which IBRC dealt with its wealth management unit. People could not buy it for one reason or other. Why was that?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: I asked about the shares. The Taoiseach did not answer my question on that yesterday and he has not answered today either. Will the share issue be covered? Who was buying shares in a bust company and why were they doing so?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Billions of euro were involved. Does the Taoiseach stand by his civil servants it he Department of Finance? Cliff Taylor summed matters up well in his article in The Irish Timeswith the following observation:[T]he extent of the tensions revealed in the FOI documents ... is striking, and cause for concern when so much money was at stake. Was it a case of an over-controlling government...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is not what I am asking about.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach never listens, he just obfuscates.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: Who had access to that?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is being dishonest to the Dáil.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2015)
Micheál Martin: The election will prevent that. The Taoiseach knows that will never happen. Do not be dishonest and say legislation will be enacted before the autumn.