Results 22,321-22,340 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: EU Membership (17 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: 107. To ask the Taoiseach if he has reservations regarding any of the terms that Britain is requesting from the European Union so that it will stay in the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40028/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (17 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: 202. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the Government decision announced in Dáil Éireann on 31 March 2011 in relation to bondholders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32843/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banks Recapitalisation (17 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: 203. To ask the Minister for Finance his views regarding the telephone call he received from the President of the European Central Bank, Mr Jean Claude Trichet, in relation to burning the senior bondholders, when he stated that a bomb would go off if that announcement was made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32844/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (17 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: 204. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on Ireland's corporation tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35263/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (17 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: 408. To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the Health Service Executive in the context of its 2016 service plan, and in the context of long waiting lists for essential therapy services for children with special needs, and the need to reduce waiting times, to provide a fund for the outsourcing of such services in order that they can be accessed. [40365/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (17 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: 485. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made contact with the President of Turkey, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40026/15]
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: In his political messages and speeches to the people and this Dáil, the truth simply does not matter to the Taoiseach. He will say anything to get elected. He will say anything to cover up something. He will deny reality and the truth when it stares him in the face. Language means nothing-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Language means nothing to the Taoiseach. He breaks promise after promise-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----believing that media management will take care of everything. Nowhere is this behaviour more manifest than in the Government's abandonment of universal health insurance, which was the cornerstone of its health philosophy for the past ten years and longer. The Taoiseach promised it in 2007 and in 2011. He said it would eliminate the number of people waiting on trolleys, reduce waiting...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach dismissed all of this. He rebuked all and sundry who questioned it. The IMO said it is one of the biggest cases of political mis-selling in recent history. My question to the Taoiseach is this. How did he get it so wrong and make such a mess of it? One senior Labour Party Minister said this was an astonishing mess. He said the Labour Party was for universal health...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: Why would anyone believe anything the Taoiseach says on health policy ever again?
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: George Washington once said it is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. I respectfully put to the Taoiseach that what I said at the outset is reflected again in his reply. Language means absolutely nothing to him. He will say anything. He has just now said he does not propose to implement the findings of the ESRI report. The ESRI report is an evaluation of the model that his...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The ESRI, KPMG and others have said what the Taoiseach was proposing in his model and said represented value for money would potentially cost a family with up to two children approximately €8,000 to €9,000 and would cost the State approximately €6.5 billion. Now the Taoiseach comes in here and says the Government is no longer doing "that" model. The Taoiseach spent ten...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----but he did no research. There was no blueprint, because it did not matter. The truth did not matter to the Taoiseach before the last election and it did not matter to him for the past five years.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not have a bull's notion how he was going to get there-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: -----and he still does not know, because he just talks about models.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: I will indeed. I put it to the Taoiseach that the Labour Party Minister is correct that this is an astonishing mess.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: The Minister said the Labour Party was for universal health insurance in principle but not this mess-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: He said there are still large chunks missing and asked how we can have an intelligent conversation when we have no figures.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2015)
Micheál Martin: He said that last year. That is the key point. The Taoiseach does not believe in the public having an intelligent conversation about anything to do with policy or health.