Results 26,781-26,800 of 50,917 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff in the Government Information Service. [7444/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the partnership arrangements the strategic communications unit in his Department has with a newspaper (details supplied). [8469/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday's conversation on the marketing unit was helpful because it allowed time to fact-check some of the Government's statements. Approximately €340,000 was the amount spent on the launch of the 2007 plan. I checked a parliamentary question tabled at the time by Ruairí Quinn. This does not compare with the amount spent on Friday's launch, which was by far the most expensive...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: That was not the question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: That was not the question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: So they just magic it up.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach give us a report on the media content partnership in a fully transparent manner? Will he give me a paper on it?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Of course the Taoiseach has it. The information in his Department.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: That is not the answer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: This is a parliamentary democracy. I am asking a question and the media partnership is something on which we should get an answer. That is all. What is the nature of the partnership and how does it work?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Stop, this is outrageous.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has information on all the costs because the deed has been done. A person would not get into the cinema without paying his or her money upfront.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Strategic Communications Unit (21 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (21 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the Copenhagen economic report; the role his Department officials will have in responding to same; and the plans they are working on and co-ordinating across Departments. [8467/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Reports (21 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: 119. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will report on the Copenhagen economic report; and the role her Department officials will have in responding to same. [8467/18]
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The roll-out and launch of the national development plan have been by far the most expensive and extensive ever undertaken by a Government. The role of the strategic communications unit, SCU, which the Taoiseach established and whose head he selected, must come under the closest of scrutiny and most comprehensive of reviews. The SCU-directed campaign has, either advertently or...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: I asked very straight questions and have been asking them of the Taoiseach for the past three to four months, long before the publication of any national development plan. The strategic communications unit is about the promotion of the Taoiseach's good self and his party. That is the point. It is unprecedented. There are 15 staff in the unit. I asked the Taoiseach a very simple question...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The question is about how Fine Gael candidates end up in a Government advertisement paid for by the taxpayer. It is not the function of the taxpayer to fund advertisements for Fine Gael election candidates.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Some of them are not even Members of the Oireachtas and they are certainly not members of the Government. This is not about process; it is fundamental and goes to the heart of democracy and how our system works. The Civil Service should be completely devoid of politics. There is absolutely no way the Fine Gael website had every single item of the national development plan, chapter and...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is about time the Taoiseach faced up to that. He has blurred the lines and is going down a dangerous route which has, ultimately, the potential to corrupt our democratic process itself. It is about time he saw that.