Results 21,561-21,580 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It came out on Monday night. What have you been doing since then?
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I asked it earlier.
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It was all bluster so.
- Order of Business (8 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Fine Gael wants higher property taxes in Dublin now.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am not sure whether the Tánaiste is aware of the many devastating cases that we are hearing about in e-mails and from constituents that are demonstrating the impact on so many families across the country of the cut to the one-parent family allowance that was brought in on 1 July. I received a heart-rending e-mail last week from a woman who has been working since she was 14 years of...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: He has been refused FIS a second time and he has been working since he was 14 years of age. A working woman with a medical condition has been advised by the social welfare office not to work any more and to go on invalidity pension. One self-employed woman is now getting zero payment and has had to close down a child-minding service that she had been operating for ten years in order to get...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Is the Tánaiste aware of the deep suffering that many families are now experiencing-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Does she agree with her party Whip, Deputy Stagg, that this is a bad decision, that it will not help people out of the poverty trap and that it is clearly having the opposite effect? Does she agree with Deputy Stagg's assessment of the cuts that she has introduced?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will give the Tánaiste a bit of advice. This kind of political grandstanding has no impact-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----or does not seek to persuade the people whom I identified this morning. It does not convince the woman who wrote to SPARK, for example, who is down €70 per week. She said she did not want to go into the figures because she would get a lump in her throat, and that she dreaded the thought of winter. All of the letters and e-mails that we are getting are saying that people cannot...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: One woman said that she must now tell her child to stay indoors until 1 p.m. when she returned. The Tánaiste promised a Scandinavian-type child care provision-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----which never happened.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: It never happened.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Another person said, "The future is very bleak for me and my gem of a 12 year old." The Tánaiste can do all of the grandstanding and political stuff that she does and quote figures that were wrong because that is what she wants to do.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: She wants to go down the route of cuts. I will not go down there. It is just too----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste's greatest mistake was to quote the wrong statistics. This message is not coming from me, but from people who were incensed by her performance on this issue last week. They are fed up of trying to play figure against figure. The policy is not working. In 2012, more than 60% of lone parents were at least in part-time employment. The figure in 2014 was 36%.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: The policy is not working. The bottom line-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Stagg, Labour's Whip, does not agree with the Tánaiste. That is in black and white in his letter to his constituent.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Stagg wrote, "I simply fail to see how cutting the income of the very ones who are making a real effort to improve the lot of their families and themselves help them in some way to get out of the poverty trap. It clearly has the opposite effect. I will continue to press for a reversal of this bad decision."
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Micheál Martin: He even wrote that he understood fully why this constituent would never vote for the party again. That is what he wrote in his e-mail.