Results 21,861-21,880 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he and his Department have considered or deliberated on whether Ireland will agree to changes to the European Union treaty, when it is discussed at European Union Council level, to allow the United Kingdom to remain within the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20237/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: 13. To ask the Taoiseach the specific concerns for Ireland he discussed with the British Prime Minister, Mr David Cameron, in the event of the planned referendum on the United Kingdom's future membership of the European Union being passed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25705/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he was requested by the British Prime Minister, Mr David Cameron, to support certain reforms in the European Union, to allow a compromise to be negotiated in relation to the 2017 referendum in Britain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25712/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he or his Department officials are exploring the options of a referendum being held here in the event of changes being made to European Union treaties prior to the referendum taking place in Britain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25713/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I am sure many postgraduate students in foreign relations and diplomacy would like to get their teeth into such a reply, because it is a lengthy masterpiece that says nothing of substance. It is full of banal generalities, which is what we have been getting on this issue for the past year and a half since Prime Minister Cameron said what he said. I am...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: What are those points?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: On what?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: There is nothing new in that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Could the Taoiseach define "pious goodness".
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: That is what frightens me. It worries me.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Fair play. He cannot. There is a treaty.
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: We read today that a 90 year old woman faces a €1,500 bill in a satellite dish case following a planning enforcement by Dublin City Council. Is this what we have come to? All of us in this House have heard of numerous cases where councils failed to take enforcement measures against people who flagrantly disregarded planning laws, yet a 90-year old woman was taken to court over a...
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----the review is being published but no system has been put in place. There is also reference to integrated care, cost control, health administration, capital developments and mental health, among other areas. This is important. Will the Taoiseach confirm to the House that everything I have outlined that he said would be implemented within the lifetime of the Government will not be so...
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: I remind the Government and Government Deputies that they should please be very careful-----
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----about what they will promise the people, because they will not buy it in the context of the programme for Government. It is an extraordinary document. I asked the Taoiseach two years ago whether he would review it, rewrite it or update it, but he refused.
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: When the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, said he could not implement the changes, the Taoiseach gave out to him and said, "Behave yourself, Minister Varadkar, you had better implement it." Could the Taoiseach confirm that this is not going to happen within the lifetime of the Government?
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Could he also explain why the health information Bill has been taken off the list of legislation that was published by the Chief Whip recently? It has been on the legislative schedule for four and a half years, each year without fail. It was a commitment to introduce a major upgrade in IT capabilities in the health systems.
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why is the Bill no longer listed? In the context of the health reform Bill, the Government promised that the HSE would cease to exist over time. That was promised in 2011. While the Bill is listed, it states that it is not possible to indicate when publication is expected at this stage. That is a phrase we have become used to over the past four years but now that we are getting to...
- Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: In respect of the criminal justice Bill, gardaí are dealing with very outdated equipment and surveillance technology and they are hopelessly under-resourced to fight organised crime, general criminality, fuel smuggling and laundering, smuggling and so on. When can we expect the criminal justice (offences relating to information systems) Bill, which is to deal with cybercrime, to be...