Results 22,101-22,120 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: A written appeal?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will not ask the Ceann Comhairle to demand that. I would not do that to him, because to demand a clear reply from the Taoiseach is a task too gargantuan for the Ceann Comhairle or anybody else at this stage.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Records (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should have answered the question. He had a meeting that effectively sacked a Garda Commissioner and took no minute of it and he will not give a straight answer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Economic Management Council met in April 2015. [18119/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Economic Management Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32870/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: I have tabled two of these questions. The Taoiseach has frequently praised the work of the Economic Management Council because it supposedly keeps a very close eye on all economic and fiscal issues. Does he not agree that given the lack of progress on homelessness and housing it seems the Economic Management Council, despite having 15 meetings in more recent times, is not in as much control...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: The figures we got for health-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: Can one not say a Government is being dishonest?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: I said it at the time, two years ago.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: I was proven correct. It is €600 million this year and it was €600 million the year before.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is my political view that the books-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: There is plenty of precedent. When Fine Gael was on this side of the House, it accused plenty of Governments in the past of producing fraudulent figures.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: The bottom line is that discretionary medical cards were taken from very sick children because the figures were falsified at the time. We were given a phrase along the lines of "probity controls" and nobody knew what it meant. To be fair to the Minister at the time, Deputy Reilly, he said he could not stand over the figures the day after the budget was announced. The Economic Management...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is chaotic.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: Not bitter, no.
- Order of Business (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: There is genuine fear and a lot of anger across the country in relation to crime, particularly the burglaries in both urban and rural communities the length and breadth of the country. One of the areas that has been raised is the introduction of new laws pertaining to bail. The Minister has given a commitment in that regard but there is a sense of urgency attached to it. The majority of...
- Order of Business (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: They are still awful figures. They are huge figures.
- Order of Business (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: I would not take any comfort from them.
- Order of Business (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: Will it be before Christmas?
- Order of Business (20 Oct 2015)
Micheál Martin: Page 24 of the programme for Government contains a commitment to a review of the legislation for people with disabilities, and states:As part of this review, we will move a proportion of public spending to a personal budget model so that people with disabilities or their families have the flexibility to make choices that suit their needs best. Personal budgets also introduce greater...