Results 21,181-21,200 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is my point. It transpired that it was not in the Oireachtas Library, despite being told that it was.
- Order of Business (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is incredible that the House is being asked to debate something without any of the briefing documentation being available. It makes a complete farce of the debate.
- Order of Business (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am not speaking about the motion.
- Order of Business (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: That says it all.
- Order of Business (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is essential that the Taoiseach meet the leaders of the Opposition parties and other groups to discuss how the House is being run and that he make time available to discuss the political proposals in the programme for Government pertaining to Dáil reform. What is happening is bringing the House into continual disrepute. The idea that the Government can repeatedly change the schedule...
- Order of Business (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: The democratic revolution the Taoiseach promised simply has not happened. On the Planning and Development (No. 1) Bill 2014, every day we hear stark accounts about families being made homeless. More than 70 families were referred to Focus Ireland in the past month alone. The problem in Dublin is an absolute scandal, with more than 1,000 children in emergency accommodation in hotels across...
- Order of Business (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I gave the Taoiseach a document over one year ago, but I have received no response.
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: 73. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he or his Department has received representations from employees of a factory (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21005/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Disputes (27 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: 74. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is aware that employees have been made redundant from a factory (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21006/15]
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: I have yet to hear from the Government a compelling rationale for the sale of the State's 25.1% share in Aer Lingus. The manner in which the Government has handled the Dáil in this debate has been shameful and shocking, given the fact that there has been a lack of any transparency and honesty in the presentation of the facts, particularly as they relate to workers. Given the...
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is a Cork phrase. It is a colloquial expression. The Government is pretending everything is rosy in the garden and everything is going to be all right but it is very clear that this is not the real story. It is quite shocking. The Taoiseach would not tell us about this the other day in the Dáil. He had to have an orchestrated and managed public relations exercise on Tuesday night...
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is the advice the Government got. He is right.
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: It was successful. It worked.
- Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: A shareholding of 25.1% is valuable. It is legally more valuable.
- Order of Business (28 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (28 May 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: Last Thursday week, 29 May, Deputy Catherine Murphy gave the background to her reasons for believing an independent commission of inquiry should be established relating to transactions in IBRC since 2009. Deputy Murphy had sources, which she believed were reliable and robust, who told her that very low interest rates had been given to Mr. O'Brien. Within minutes of this being reported, the...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: I believe Deputy Murphy used that privilege responsibly. Judging from the Taoiseach's remarks, he does not. He seems to be siding with Mr. O'Brien on that argument. I did not ask the Taoiseach about the recalling of the Dáil. I asked him why he remained silent on fundamental principles that go to the heart of a functioning parliamentary democracy, namely, the right of media to report...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jun 2015)
Micheál Martin: I put it to the Taoiseach-----