Results 23,961-23,980 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (10 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: 175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the demand of a centre (details supplied) in County Cork and to the fact that 281 children were turned away due to lack of capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34373/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (10 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: 176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department will allocate funding to a centre (details supplied) in County Cork; if there was an increased allocation in budget 2017 due to increased demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34374/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation Provision (10 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: 177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he or his Department has received any letters from a centre (details supplied) in relation to concerns regarding turning children and families away due to lack of funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34375/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: 178. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of new houses, social housing, extra rental units and voids that have been repaired in Cork city and county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34376/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Maritime Training (10 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: 315. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status on resolving the issue that arose earlier in 2016 whereby refresher courses provided by the National Maritime College of Ireland were not recognised by the Marine Survey Office, while they were recognised in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34204/16]
- Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: Going back to 1962 in that seminal document, Investment in Education, and the opening of the first regional technical colleges in 1970, our institutes of technology, ITs, have been a linchpin of Ireland's economic and social development. They have provided thousands of graduates to industries across the regions and in Dublin in the life sciences, med tech, pharma, retail management, culinary...
- Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: I am not convinced at all by the Taoiseach's reply. This is about strategic direction and how we should take the country back. In the 1960s, the likes of Donogh O'Malley, Paddy Hillery and Seán Lemass had a vision about how to take the country forward and that is why they set up the regional technical colleges. Their impact was extraordinary for the time. I attended an event last...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: The programme for Government is very clear about the need for the implementation of the national broadband plan. A report published today makes it clear that certain parts of rural Ireland have broadband speeds 36 times lower than those available in the capital. That is a further illustration of the two-tiered nature of economic activity in the country and the degree to which the last...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Canney's presence at the Cabinet table could be affected in this regard.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Chambers.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: We were wondering where he had gone.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (15 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the outstanding recommendations from the Constitutional Convention on referenda on various issues. [33547/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (15 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the Constitutional Convention recommendation on economic, social and cultural rights subject to the maximum available resources to be inserted into the Constitution. [35169/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (15 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: When the convention was established in 2012, we said at the time it was too general, it involved many non-urgent issues, it was unfocused and some of those issues should have been dealt with upfront at the time rather than being put to a constitutional convention. It is important, as the Taoiseach has noted, that recommendations that have yet to be voted on in this Dáil include popular...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (15 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has been cut off.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (15 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: So there will not be one?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (15 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: I meant the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs, EPSEN, Act.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (15 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach to set out the position regarding the commitment in the programme for Government in respect of supporting an enhanced approach to Government by Ministers of State and to set out the way in which they would play a more substantive role in decision-making; the progress on this; and the way it is being implemented. [33549/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (15 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: The programme for Government contains a commitment to supporting an enhanced approach to Government by Ministers of State and outlined the way in which they would play a more substantive role in decision-making. I am asking for a progress report on this issue. The Taoiseach has outlined how things were always done in the case of either appointing Ministers of State with statutory...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (15 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is different. Does the fact that Deputy Ross did not allocate any statutory responsibility for sport not represent a change?