Results 24,701-24,720 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Good Friday Agreement (22 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: 99. To ask the Taoiseach if a referendum on Irish unity will be planned in the near future. [14483/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (22 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: 106. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she or her Department have received any information on the GSOC report on the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14312/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Presidential Elections (22 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: 153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the detail of the announcement on allowing the Irish diaspora to vote for the presidential election by 2025; and his plans in this regard. [14480/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Youth Unemployment (22 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: 293. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when youth unemployment was last discussed at an EU Council meeting. [7358/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Economic Competitiveness (22 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: 294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will report on the research to benchmark Ireland's competitiveness against the UK in the post-Brexit environment, as mentioned in the Taoiseach's speech to the IIEA in February 2017. [10423/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Strategies (22 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: 295. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way her Department's officials are co-ordinating and targeting access to more EU markets following the Brexit referendum result, as mentioned in the Taoiseach's recent speech to the IIEA and at the all-island civic dialogue. [10422/17]
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: The public is genuinely shocked by the revelations of last week in regard to operational activities by An Garda Síochána, in particular the fact that 146,000 people were wrongly summoned to court for road traffic infringements and, of those, 14,700 received sanctions and convictions. It is a fundamental issue that undermines our criminal justice system, the relationship between our...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not answer the questions I asked. Why did the Garda Commissioner not inform the Policing Authority? The Taoiseach spoke in his reply about the close oversight of the Policing Authority. It appears the authority was not informed. It is incredible. Under this radical new reform, the body that will take politics out of An Garda Síochána was not told. ...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: I am asking the Taoiseach to volunteer the Minister and make her answer the questions directly.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Minister will not answer questions
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: They are not. There is no questions and answers format during the Topical Issue debate. The Taoiseach should stop misleading the House.
- Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Government was informed.
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed.
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: There have just been three Leaders' Questions dealing with revelations that go to the core of public confidence in the credibility of An Garda Síochána and the administration of justice. The House should reflect that. More importantly, the political accountability for the administration of justice lies with the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy...
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: -----crisis that is engulfing the administration of justice. It has been passed on to the Garda Commissioner. The Garda Commissioner passes it on to an assistant commissioner. The cynicism is breathtaking. It is beyond belief that not addressing a policing authority is just an administrative oversight. The idea that the House can carry on nonchalantly for the next three days while the...
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, during Leaders' Questions, I invited the Taoiseach to volunteer the Minister for Justice and Equality to come to the House, do the honourable thing, make a statement on what is probably one of the worst crises to hit An Garda Síochána and take questions on it. That was the way for many years in this House when crises happened. Private notice questions were the...
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, it might not necessarily have been out of order.
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: Would it not have been done through ultra viresStanding Orders?
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: The next item on the agenda is Taoiseach's Questions which is about 45 minutes so at the end of that session it should be clear whether a resolution has been found.
- Order of Business (28 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: If there is no resolution we could get back to the floor of the House.