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- Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Have all of them?
- Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: What report did the Minister read?
- Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: We did it in the health area and they got rid of the then Minister, Deputy Reilly. We did in the justice area and they got rid of the former Minister, Deputy Shatter.
- Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is a lie.
- Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: This is a scandal.
- Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I would not advise the Deputy to try.
- Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: The clock seems to work for the Government side, but not the Opposition.
- Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach was ten minutes late. Could the Leas-Cheann Comhairle not allow that ten minutes?
- Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Keep going.
- Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: 1994.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: In the brief time available to me, I would like to articulate my view that the majority conclusion of the Smiddy report is fundamentally wrong in terms of the future of Cork City Council and Cork County Council. I happen to agree with the thrust of the minority grouping report, which is that cities drive regions. I think the amalgamation of Cork city and county councils would have a very...
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is not working in Waterford. The people of Waterford city are very upset about the declining capacity of the urban centre of the city to market itself. I refer the Minister to the submission to the review panel that was made by William Brady, Jonathan Hall and Brendan O'Sullivan of the UCC department of planning. I do not believe they had discussions with the review panel. They have...
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Fundamentally, the planning people in UCC are saying that this will provide the worst of both worlds: an oversized and unworkable entity that will never be able to meet fully the needs of the two core constituencies.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I expected better, to be frank - more than just a bureaucratic presentation by the Minister in terms of Civil Service speak----
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Fundamentally, there is a fundamental flaw in it----
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Cork County Council and Cork City Council worked exceptionally well in the 1970s and 1980s, for example, in terms of the land use and transportation study. Officials in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government confirmed that. It was an exemplar in terms of how to do planning. That was followed by CASP, the Cork Area Strategic Plan, another excellent model in terms...
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I agree with Deputy Kieran Lynch on one point. I do not know whether he has spoken to the Minister or not. So far he has absolved the Minister of any criticism but has blamed everyone else. I accept his point that fundamentally there is an anti-politician attitude at the core of this. Let us abolish politicians. It is like that headline that Fine Gael had with regard to the Seanad...
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: "Vote Yes - less politicians". Urban councillors are gone----
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I said Fine Gael. Urban councillors have been abolished across the length and breadth of the country.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Government Reform (22 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is the myth that better local government means less politics or fewer politicians.