Results 21,121-21,140 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: All I am asking-----
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Thank you. The Government has come in at the eleventh hour and asked us to change the entire schedule for today in order to ram through a motion on the sale of Aer Lingus. I am entitled to oppose that proposition and speak about it-----
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I do not like the attitude of the Government that it wants to suppress my right to speak as a Dáil Deputy about the changing of the scheduling of business. The reason I am doing this is we know that the Labour Party received a briefing on the issue privately. We have been told that the Labour 7 are on board, with the possible exception of Deputy Michael McNamara, although I do not know...
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, the Chief Whip has been dishonest in his presentation. An email was sent from his office. From my knowledge, he did not ring our Whip or anyone else in the House or the Independents. He did not show that basic courtesy. The Chief Whip came into the House yesterday and everybody thought there was a certain amount of business to be conducted today.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: It happened late last night. We only learned about the deal on the evening news and relatively late last night. I will not argue about whether 9 p.m. is considered late because that would be a bit petty.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that this proposal should be put to the Oireachtas committee. At the very minimum, time should have been made available for a proper presentation of documentation and an analysis to be given to Deputies who would be asked to vote on the proposal. Members will get up and make statements. It is contemptible. The Government talked about reform-----
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: This goes to the heart of reform of the House. The Government is falling short yet again on a commitment to make this institution meaningful and relevant. It is the last place in the country to be briefed on anything by it. It has no time for this place. I have no doubt that between now and the general election its whole strategy will be to shut down the House as often as it possibly can.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The strategy will be to prevent a detailed analysis of any serious issue. That is what it is doing on this issue. It does not want the deal to be questioned; nor does it want Labour Party Deputies to become windy over a period of time. Therefore, it is being rammed and run through. Let us be straight. I would like to test the yardstick that Deputy Costello put when he described this deal...
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: He got an extra two years.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am sorry, Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: My point of order-----
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The manner in which the Government is behaving in this House is bringing the House into disrepute.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I ask that the Leas-Cheann Comhairle adjourn the House and for consultation to begin between the Government side and the Opposition Whips.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I ask for proper, meaningful consultation between the Whips to order this House properly so that we can have a genuine approach to having this issue considered seriously. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle has not done that and is not doing that.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: This goes to the heart of how the Opposition feels about this. It is jackboot politics of the worst kind. It is outrageous carry-on.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, I seek clarification. It is my understanding that Question Time is meant to run for 75 minutes from 9.30 a.m. It now seems that the time allowed has been arbitrarily and unilaterally halved, or at least reduced to about 45 minutes. This is an example of the absolute contempt of the Government side for the House.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Some 12% of children are living in consistent poverty and questions cannot now be asked about that matter because of the Government's approach.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government is doing exactly the same as it did on the Irish Water issue which was a debacle. It made a mess of it.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I cannot understand it because we were promised a political reformation and reform of this House, but what we are getting is the complete opposite. There is an attitude of contempt towards parliamentary democracy and proper analysis by the Opposition of the Government.
- Business of Dáil: Motion (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Shame on the Chief Whip because his only response was to make very weak personal comments that at any level were meaningless.