Results 22,281-22,300 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I am asking about the Supplementary Estimate for health and requesting a debate on same. When can we expect the landlord and tenant reform Bill, and will it deal with the abolition of development levies for homes sold for under €300,000? Finally, the Garda Síochána compensation (malicious injuries) Bill has been on the legislative programme for quite some time. Given...
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: After the election.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: We were promised it would.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: What about the statement from the Department of Finance?
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why would the Department of Finance be hiding anything?
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why would the Department of Finance be hiding documents?
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: It is. It is asserting the right to withhold documents from third parties.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: There is no date for it.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has not dealt with it.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is asking a question.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: There is no need to do that now. Deputy Buttimer should not be so self-deprecating.
- Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Buttimer is the personification.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Seniors Alert Scheme (10 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: 520. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason he met a bidder during the tendering process for a contract to supply personal alarms to older persons; why no minutes of the meeting were taken; and if this meeting during the period the tenders were being evaluated contravened the rules of the tender process. [39020/15]
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday, I asked the Taoiseach a number of questions about the inquiry into the sale of Siteserv and other State-owned assets by IBRC. He did not answer the very basic question I put to him, namely, why the Department of Finance refused to waive its rights regarding the documents it sent to the commission of investigation. I asked the Taoiseach if it was his position that no officials in...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Incredibly, it was also originally asked by the Minister for Finance to lead the investigation. Is the Taoiseach not now thoroughly embarrassed by the decision to ask it to investigate, given that it has emerged as the main obstacle in the progression of the investigation and has claimed that the public interest does not override the necessity of the utilisation of these documents by the...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: No; I am asking about the Department of Finance's knowledge.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: People in the private sector argue about Chinese walls, and that is the KPMG argument. It claims it can be adviser to and investigate the sale, as well as taking steps legally to say the investigation cannot go ahead under a different aegis. It is incredible that the Taoiseach of the day would claim there is a Chinese wall syndrome at the heart of Government in regard to an investigation...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----on the workings of the Lindsay tribunal. Many people will remember that well, because we were asked to waive legal privilege, something that many people, including those in the Law Library, did not like. Many people did not want it to happen, but I took the decision. It is inconceivable that the Department of Finance would lay claim to confidentiality without the Minister for Finance...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----is that this was all a big surprise to them last Thursday-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----when the judge formally wrote to them.