Results 25,761-25,780 of 50,909 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Overseas Visits (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: That will be a new dimension.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Communications (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 82. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent tenders issued by his Department for research. [41253/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Communications (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 83. To ask the Taoiseach the way in which the strategic communications unit will have a whole-of-Government approach; if this will be through press offices or political press, special advisers or policy advisers; and if there will be a distinction between the official roles of each Government Department and the political staff in each Department. [41255/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Communications (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 84. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 86 of 20 September 2017, the countries or governments to which he is referring with regard to best international practice on strategic communication. [41256/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Communications (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 85. To ask the Taoiseach if the high-level working group on the strategic communications unit has been set up; and if so, the members that are part of the group. [41258/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Communications (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 86. To ask the Taoiseach if the request for the strategic communications unit came from within the Civil Service. [41259/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Communications (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 87. To ask the Taoiseach if the operating principles for the strategic communications unit have been drawn up; and if he or his advisers will be consulted on same. [41260/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Communications (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 88. To ask the Taoiseach if the network of communications professionals will be part of the Civil Service or inclusive of both the Civil Service and political staff. [41261/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Communications (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 89. To ask the Taoiseach the way in which the strategic communication unit will result in reduced expenditure. [41262/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Websites (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 90. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department's website is being updated; the cost of same; the last time it was reviewed and updated; and the cost of same at the time. [41263/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 91. To ask the Taoiseach if he has discussed the Dublin-Monaghan bombings with Prime Minister May. [41265/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Communications (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 92. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken or written to Chancellor Merkel regarding her re-election. [41266/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ministerial Meetings (3 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: 507. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the meetings he held in respect of the Rugby World Cup bid. [41380/17]
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: The story for people with disabilities continues to worsen year after year. Access to therapies is simply appalling and respite care and opportunities for work for people with disabilities are very poor. The assessment of need statutory rules are continuously breached, but much worse is happening. I could go through a whole range of services for people with disabilities which are very poor...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: There is a very disappointing complacency - almost a smugness - in the Taoiseach's response to issues of this kind. It is now standard practice and a mantra whereby the Taoiseach will just itemise what he sees as positives and so on but will not deal with the hard questions that are asked. If one asked the basic question about access to therapies for children, teenagers and indeed older...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: There are other such cases. Parents of a nine-year old child in a similar situation were told that no services were available. Those parents really do not want to hear the Taoiseach, Minister for Health or Minister of State with responsibility for disability reeling off statistics. They are fed up with rhetoric and publication of a strategy which Senator John Dolan has said has no targets.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: They are fed up.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: I am not worried about backing up the Minister of State.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)
Micheál Martin: I am interested in the families who are at the end of their tether-----
- Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2017)
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