Results 24,061-24,080 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he still chairs the Cabinet Committee on Health. [34869/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: The reason I have asked the Taoiseach if he chairs the Cabinet Committee on Health is straightforward. It is increasingly clear that one area of Government policy that is in a shambles is health. After holding the health portfolio for six straight years, Fine Gael has no discernible health policy. The compulsory health insurance model of the James Reilly era was abandoned prior to the last...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: We had our own motion. The Deputy is playing politics with the issue.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: Three minutes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (23 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: We can spend more. The Taoiseach gave the impression it is only €35 million. That is the problem. It sends out the wrong signal.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Lansdowne Road Agreement Implementation (23 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: 133. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the programme for Government commitment to fully implement the Lansdowne Road agreement in accordance with the timelines agreed. [33800/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Lansdowne Road Agreement Implementation (23 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: 134. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are officials in his Department who oversee or interact with other Departments on implementation of the Lansdowne Road Agreeement. [34867/16]
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: In March 1983, the chief prison officer of Portlaoise Prison, Brian Stack, was shot in the back of the neck. He was the only prison officer in the Republic to be murdered during the Troubles by the Provisional IRA. He died in September 1984 as a result of his injuries. It took 30 years for the Provisional IRA to admit that it murdered him despite many denials by the IRA and Sinn Féin...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. I put it to the Taoiseach that Deputy Adams often asks the Taoiseach to meet him and others who are victims of other atrocities. I have no difficulty with that. It is equally legitimate to seek a meeting when it comes to the only prison officer murdered in this State defending the State. Portlaoise Prison was a difficult assignment for any prison...
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: It was not.
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order-----
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: Can I make a point before anybody discusses anything? Could we get the precedence and the protocols for what happens when leaders of state die?
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: Former leaders. I am not aware of previous-----
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: There is an important issue here. I can think of former leaders of other states who passed away about whom there would be uproar in here if attempts were made to debate those, and I am not casting any aspersions on-----
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: There are protocols attached to votes of sympathy that are long standing in the House. We need to establish those. We cannot make them up on a whim. It is my understanding that this happened after the Business Committee met.
- Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: There are expert leakers.
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: One of the more optimistic sentences in the programme for Government reads, "We are committed to sustaining the progress made to date on waiting lists, and are committed to" further investment, etc. As the Taoiseach will be aware, the reality is that the waiting lists have gone in the opposite direction and are at an all-time record high. Quite appalling figures in a range of medical...
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (29 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: That is an unexpected promotion.
- Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (29 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: Ar mo shon féin agus ar son pháirtí Fhianna Fáil, ba mhaith liom comhbhrón a dhéanamh le clann de Barra ar bhás Peter agus le páirtí Fhine Gael. Polaiteoir agus fear ghnó den scoth a bhí ann. Duine cneasta, lách agus éirimiúil ab ea é. D'oibrigh sé go dian dícheallach Domhnach is dálach ar son a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (29 Nov 2016)
Micheál Martin: The biggest potential non-standard shock to the economy that the national risk assessments consider is the Brexit vote. I do not get a sense that the nation is possessed of the grave threat that Brexit poses to our economic model. It fundamentally changes what we have been working with for 50 years in terms of us being with Britain in a European Single Market. The ESRI, with the Department...