Results 22,781-22,800 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. My question is related to Brexit, whether the Economic Management Council has a responsibility for preparing Ireland's plans for a possible British exit from the European Union and asks whether the Taoiseach will make a statement on the matter. I take it that he is aware that the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, has confirmed that the...
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I have a number of issues on forthcoming legislation to raise with the Taoiseach. The Taoiseach will agree it is very disturbing to read about how a hospital discharged an 81 year old woman who, following a stroke, is unable to swallow. She was deemed clinically unsuitable for peg feeding and is, therefore, facing the possibility of starving to death. It seems incredible and there must be...
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, during the Order of Business we can legitimately ask for proposed Government legislation. Given the extraordinary headlines and comments this morning, I would have thought the Taoiseach would be in a position to outline what legislation is being proposed-----
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----particularly if the Minister is outside the House right now, perhaps having done it already. Surely that is very regrettable.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach clarify that he did not say he rebuked the watchdog for spying on journalists? He is saying he did not say that at all and that no one on his behalf briefed the newspapers. Nobody on his behalf briefed the Irish Independentin this respect.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach clarify that nobody briefed the Irish Independent, that he did not say these things and that no one on his behalf said he was rebuking the watchdog for spying on journalists?
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is a very important issue. GSOC was rubbished this morning by spokespeople on the Taoiseach's behalf. Someone briefed the journalists. They did not make it up themselves.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: So the Taoiseach did not slap them down at all
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Sometimes you are.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has some very capable spin doctors. Let us give them credit. They are very good and they have a very good habit of doing that kind of thing.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Then the Taoiseach comes into the House and he withdraws.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I will show respect, a Cheann Comhairle, but I think the Taoiseach should show a bit more respect for us as well. We did not all come down in the last shower.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Your people must have been.
- Order of Business (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Fine Gael has very good ones. I have given them credit. The only thing the Government gets an A mark for is spinning.
- European Council: Statements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Over the past five years, we have spent an enormous amount of time on statements such as these. In addition to post-Council statements, which have been held for decades, we have had the extra opportunity to each speak for ten minutes before summits. However, if one looks back on the record, one will find that the statements have been defined by the Government’s refusal to...
- European Council: Statements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I inadvertently consulted the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on this earlier and thought there would be more questions, but that is a genuine oversight on my part. On the summit and the Council meeting and the deal and discussions between the European Union and Turkey in terms of seeking to prevent people leaving the camps to travel to Europe, in the overall context has the Government a position on...
- European Council: Statements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Will the Minister of State answer the question? Is the chapter closed?
- European Council: Statements (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: I think the Minister of State needs a Garda escort again.
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Comóradh 1916 (19 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: 485. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the State's preparations for the 1916 commemoration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2015/16]
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2016)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday, I asked the Taoiseach if he had seen the RTE film "My homeless family". I was inundated with calls yesterday from people who were quite shocked by the revelations about the reality of homelessness in Ireland today, and particularly the plight of families in hotels. I do not know if the Taoiseach has seen the programme but it is important that he should do so. Yesterday, he...