Results 23,001-23,020 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is not a way to organise this House at all, and I have no issue with the issues. That is my point.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: I am speaking to the Chair.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: I am speaking through the Chair.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: One day.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: We agreed it.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, will other parties be entitled then to submit motions to that Order Paper? That is the point.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: There has to be, I would suggest, meetings between the Whips to agree it.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: I do not want to be awkward but we cannot have a situation where one party wants to dominate the agenda of-----
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is in essence what is happening. I have no objection to motions but every party must have the rules laid out before them in advance. That was not the position 48 hours ago. We were told we could not table motions. That is the advice we received. All I am saying is that if it is now open for people to put forward motions to be considered on 22 March, then every political party,...
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is the only point I am making.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: It is an important point of principle, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: Exactly.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: Hear, hear.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: They are on the Order Paper.
- Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: No, he does not.
- Business of Dáil (22 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: On my own behalf and on behalf of my party, I extend our deepest sympathies to the entire McGrotty family, particularly to Louise on the loss of her partner, Seán, her sons, Mark and Evan, her mother, Ruth, and her sister, Jodie Lee. An unspeakable tragedy and trauma has befallen the family. This has been very eloquently articulated by the local parish priest, Fr. Paddy O'Kane, in...
- Business of Dáil (22 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: In the context of-----
- Business of Dáil (22 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: While the Fianna Fáil Party fully accepts the Ceann Comhairle's ruling in the context of existing Standing Orders, we simply have to put down a marker. This is the second day on which we are witnessing procedural wrangling with political motivation.
- Business of Dáil (22 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: During the previous sitting we all witnessed the degree of serial misleading that took place in what actually transpired in the House when there was simply one vote on the order, as proposed by the Government. Last time out there was, for example, no motion on water charges proposed, yet it was sold and spun that somehow people had voted for or against a motion on water charges. We...
- Business of Dáil (22 Mar 2016)
Micheál Martin: -----or in an attempt to promote one party over another. All parties have been tabling motions for a long time and all of them know that, under existing Standing Orders, they are taken in Private Members' time. Let us not try to pretend to the nation that somehow the motions of one party, as opposed to those of another, are being denied an airing. One simple solution has been put before...