Results 21,901-21,920 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: There has been much talk about billions of euro and so on. My office was contacted last night by Respond housing association in order to highlight that on Monday last it announced the closure of its women's refuge in Tallaght at Christmas. There are nine families housed at that refuge right now. Respond has been funding the facility itself for three years at €350,000 per annum. It...
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: It has not gone up.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: No. It has been raising that money itself.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government is not responding to it and it announced its closure at Christmas. Nine families are housed in the refuge in Tallaght.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: The organisation has approached the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Government is making a mockery of everything, with all the talk that goes on, the millions and plans. The people on the ground see all this happening.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: This is a parliament.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: And flexibility as well.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: They have nothing to do with burglaries.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Answer the question.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will legislation be required?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will be as topical as I can.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: As the Taoiseach knows, since last July we have been raising serious concerns about the Project Eagle deal, which involved the sale of the Northern Ireland portfolio by NAMA. Deputy Wallace has been very persistent in asking these questions as well. I put it to the Taoiseach in July that there is an ethical consideration here because it is not good enough for NAMA to say that everything is...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----stitching up this deal as far back as 2010, the ultimate goal being to get it into one bundle, after which people would use contacts to interest investment funds and so forth.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: Mr. Watters said that "at this point I felt assured that £7.5m would be paid to Cadogan Futures LLP." He talks about a meeting on 4 July 2013 at Tughans. This letter was sent to Mr. Frank Cushnahan with a cover letter. Mr. Cushnahan was a member of the Northern Ireland advisory committee to NAMA. The more that unravels regarding this deal, the more genuine concern is generated....
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: The same sets of solicitors were involved with Cerberus too. The bottom line is this: why is the Government ignoring this issue and essentially giving comfort to NAMA to put up a wall and not to engage fully in the investigation in Northern Ireland?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why is the Government determined to try to make this go away? All I would say is that the evidence suggests that it is not going to go away and the Taoiseach has a responsibility to follow it up.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach knows that the Northern Ireland Committee for Finance and Personnel and the Committee of Public Accounts are not going to get to the bottom of this. The letter I referred to earlier was written by the same gentleman who said, with regard to the Northern Ireland inquiry, that "Unsupported testimony provided yesterday at Stormont claimed I was due to receive a fee from monies...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----which were clearly of such concern to all involved that the original successful bidder, Pimco, had to withdraw. NAMA's defence at the Committee of Public Accounts was that people could not expect it, notwithstanding those concerns, to have pulled the deal, which could have undermined the price. In other words, the price justifies whatever happened. NAMA is under the Taoiseach's...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach approve of NAMA not giving an oral public testimony to the Northern Ireland inquiry? He should not give me stuff about it sending documents up. Why will it not go up there?