Results 24,741-24,760 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Minister is being disingenuous. The point I am making is that in 2013, when all of that broke down, the Government at the time took the decision to appoint two experienced facilitators to get people back into facilitation. Nothing has happened on this occasion by the Government and nothing has happened for all of 2015 and right through to 2016 because it is not in the Minister's own...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: The proof of the pudding is in an e-mail that was sent to the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, on 23 December 2015, when he was the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, by Graham Doyle, alerting him to the fact that the unions were very concerned about possible measures in Bus Éireann. The Minister's official said, "However, we do not detect any immediate action on that front. They are...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: -----because of the general election and the onset of it. Many problems were sown as a result of that. That complete stand-off has caused the current crisis in Bus Éireann. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, has said that he is not getting involved in any circumstances and is not even going to appoint facilitators.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: This is not just a pay dispute. It is not just an industrial relations dispute. It is a fundamental issue about structural change to Bus Éireann.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: That is why it needs different inputs in addition to the industrial relations input and the Minister has been severely lacking in addressing this particular issue.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: They buried it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: People were genuinely shocked last evening when the Policing Authority issued a statement in which it again expressed its disappointment at not being advised in a timely manner that an audit into the breath test issues was under way. Despite questioning over several months, the authority has not yet been provided with the full internal reports or indeed a clear sense of how these matters...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: -----and the fact that there has been no provision of the requisite documentation and information to the authority.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform is all heart.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: No. Deputy Moynihan is not referring to the compassionate access programme. This is separate.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (30 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: 46. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she or her officials have recently reviewed a case (details supplied); the circumstances that led to this person's death by a person who was repeatedly on bail and who had numerous convictions involving drugs and alcohol; and if the Government is considering a commission of inquiry into the actions that were taken by the Garda regarding all...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traveller Community (30 Mar 2017)
Micheál Martin: 50. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on her statement on 1 March 2017 regarding Traveller ethnicity here; and if she will elaborate on the matter. [11616/17]
- Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)
Micheál Martin: We are now in the 12th day of the nationwide Bus Éireann dispute. People are extremely frustrated, annoyed and angry by the lack of activity at Government level to resolve this dispute. The simple refrain across Ireland is that if this dispute was in Dublin, it would have been resolved a long time ago. That is the general sense in regional cities, rural towns and across the...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)
Micheál Martin: Since 2016, the NTA, under EU regulations, has had to pay a reasonable profit on PSO services to CIE companies. Where a reasonable profit is paid to a director or operator, it is a matter for that company to decide how it wishes to apply these funds. It goes through all the possible applications of reasonable profit. No one is arguing that Bus Éireann is not very successful at...
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Micheál Martin: Not agreed.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Micheál Martin: We already indicated to the Business Committee in advance that the putting back of Private Members' time from 8 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. to facilitate the recommital of the Bail (Amendment) Bill is not satisfactory from our point of view. It is our Private Members' time this week and many people committed to Defence Force issues will be in attendance this evening. Having Private Members' debates...
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Micheál Martin: A note was sent-----
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Micheál Martin: Did the Business Committee decide this yesterday?
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Micheál Martin: There was no meeting yesterday.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Micheál Martin: There was no meeting yesterday.