Results 26,241-26,260 of 50,916 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: The climate change debate is only to last for two hours, with eight people to speak for 15 minutes. Only eight people will speak which is hardly adequate for such an important issue. I know people want to wrap up early in the next two weeks, but it seems we cannot concertina everything into eight or nine days. That will be our challenge if we are to have meaningful debate. I accept this...
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: Does the Minister of State mean he is not sure who Deputy Lisa Chambers is?
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: It is not as big as Brexit.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: I thought we would all get time to pay tribute to a former Member. That would be appropriate to do, and should be separate to the Order of Business.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate the Ceann Comhairle's difficulty but we got a phone call to suggest this was happening. Ar mo shon féin agus ar son mo pháirtí, ba mhaith liom mo chomhbhrón a dhéanamh le clann Thomas Finlay. Is léir dúinn go ndearna sé an-chuid ar son an Stáit. Bhí sé dílis do mhuintir na tíre. He had a long life and achieved...
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: I have raised with the Taoiseach on a number of occasions during Leaders' Questions and the Order of Business the outstanding moneys that are owed to what are termed section 39 agencies. These include hospices throughout the country and many disability organisations. There is an incontrovertible link between HSE pay scales and the pay scales of employees in those organisations. They were...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee that covers housing and homelessness. [51712/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee in which transport is discussed. [51996/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: Are we taking Questions Nos. 1 to 4 together?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: We need to be clear. The first question is on housing and homelessness. The fourth is on transport and the third is on infrastructure. I would have believed the question on housing would be separate from that on transport. We need to be very careful that we are not amalgamating questions and making it impossible for people to focus on a core issue within the minute and a half they are...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: On the transport question, I have a number of points. Can the Taoiseach outline the position on our utilisation of the European Investment Fund and particularly the European Fund for Strategic Investment, known as the Juncker plan? We have apparently secured investment only in primary health care centres under that particular plan. Trenitlaia, the national train operator in Italy, has...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: Earlier this year, NESC produced a detailed research paper relating to the development of infrastructure plans and the levels of consultation that represent good practice. Has the Taoiseach implemented the plan in this way in preparing for the new capital plan and the national marketing plan? In every study of the Irish economy, whether public or private, there has been an absolutely...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on Cabinet committee A - economy. [51711/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: It is a year since we were told the new capital investment plan was nearly ready and would run up to 2021. Since then, the plan has been repeatedly delayed and the Taoiseach has announced it will claim to be a plan for the period up to 2027. For the first time in the history of such plans, the Government is proposing to announce and then sell, via a multi-million euro marketing campaign, a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: We need to reflect on the spatial plan because it is putting limits on development in towns across the country.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: 118. To ask the Taoiseach the role his Department has in respect of the Central Statistics Office. [51713/17]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: 119. To ask the Taoiseach the agenda of the December 2017 European Council meeting. [51714/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Expenditure (5 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: 221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the Department of the Taoiseach's strategy statement and its commitment to meet the demographic challenges in higher education. [49414/17]
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: I do not know whether the Taoiseach saw the "Prime Time" special programme last evening which revealed the appalling and heart-rending situation facing many carers across this country. If the Taoiseach did not watch it, and he may not have had the time, I would recommend that he watch it fairly quickly because it revealed the appalling lack of sufficient State resources to carers. That lack...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2017)
Micheál Martin: The Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, may shake his hand.