Results 22,741-22,760 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: She got it wrong. She saved €55 million by doing it, the worst €55 million ever saved in any Estimate because it drove vulnerable families out of the rental market and into homelessness.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is why we have the escalating spectacle of families with children in commercial hotels with all the difficulties and challenges this entails. I am not the only person saying this. Every organisation at the coalface has repeatedly asked the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste to change their position on rent supplement and they have not done so. I also asked the Taoiseach, who might come...
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach now change tack on NAMA and instruct it that a minimum of 10,000 houses out of the 20,000 houses it is to build should be social housing of one form or another because it has a social remit?
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Government changed the scheme.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I do but I do not like meeting families who have spent Christmas in hotels. I just do not like meeting them and I have met them. Of course I want to recognise it and get them out of hotels.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach does not get it.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: We told the Taoiseach that would happen.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is driving people into homelessness.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: They are not social houses.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I am always courteous to Deputy Wallace. He tolerates my excesses.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: There is no logic to it.
- Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is the only guy who is saying it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he received a call from Chancellor Merkel of Germany, on the European transmissions directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33920/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: This is a very serious issue. The Taoiseach has been reported as having been involved in lobbying with Chancellor Merkel in working to delay cuts to car carbon dioxide targets. This is happening in tandem with the Volkswagen scandal that emerged when vehicular emissions were deliberately misrepresented to the public and it turned out that there had been interference with and manipulation of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Not half.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is not my fault. I was quite brief in asking my question. The Taoiseach, as usual, went down a cul-de-sac on a separate issue to deliberately waste time, as he always does.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach a straight question. Did he lobby on behalf of the German Government on the carbon dioxide issue? I did not make up The New York Timesreport.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The New York Timesreport reads:In the summer and fall of 2013, Ms Merkel pressed Brussels and succeeded in overturning an already concluded agreement on cutting carbon dioxide emissions, postponing some regulations until 2021. Ms. Merkel was said at the time to have worked with Enda Kenny, the Irish prime minister, on the lobbying effort. The Taoiseach is missing the point I am making about...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Other countries also told them where to go. Sometimes principles have to be asserted in discussions such as this. The bottom line is that, even from the Taoiseach's replies, notwithstanding the long, convoluted cul-de-sac he went down, Germany essentially got its way in cutting carbon dioxide emissions and having the directive delayed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Yes and if he would make a statement on the matter.