Results 27,321-27,340 of 50,917 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: They are not. That was in December 2015. We can keep announcing and passing laws in the Chamber and saying that we will do great things next month or the month after. When we pass such laws, however, they are not commenced and nothing changes. We need a satisfactory explanation as to why section 32(b) of that Act, which was designed to prevent the trauma people have experienced in taking...
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is not happening.
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: The authority is not required for the purposes of section 32(b).
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: The authority is not required for the purposes of section 32(b).
- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: I asked earlier about the commencement of the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015, particularly in respect of section 32B. I think the Taoiseach indicated that the Legal Services Regulatory Authority has not been established but it has been established. It was announced to have been established in 2016. Section 32B is not dependent on the authority. The section concerns how to deal with...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: Given the condition of the roads he would probably need a pilot.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Minister of State should be restraining himself.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: I think we should respect the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am sitting next to one of the most cerebral Members from Kerry, Deputy Brassil. He never causes any difficulty.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach further to the reply from the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 25 January 2018, the status of the proposal to double Ireland's global footprint by 2025. [19091/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Having seen close at hand the work of our diplomats and international agencies, I have always supported the significant extension of our international reach and, indeed, during more straitened times, managed to do so as Minister for Foreign Affairs. When we open new embassies and representative offices, there is a direct and continuous benefit to Ireland...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Yesterday, he again refused to acknowledge, let alone answer, some direct questions put to him about major departmental initiatives since he became Taoiseach. Other Members have been accused of filibustering in respect of legislative measures but the record shows that the Taoiseach is filibustering in the context of replying to questions in order to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: Yes, I have. The Taoiseach is short three in the EU division.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: That is what the Taoiseach said would be done originally.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he met the DUP and Sinn Féin leaders when he visited Northern Ireland on 30 April 2018; and the issues they discussed. [19987/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: I welcome that yesterday, the Taoiseach accepted that the lack of working institutions in Northern Ireland is a direct threat to achieving as much as possible in the Brexit negotiations. However, what was surprising is the lack of any urgency in what he said, and there being a significant step away from the strength of calls for actions by the parties which the Taoiseach made earlier this...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach visit Galway port?
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: I appreciate the opportunity to express sympathy and to talk about the issue later. Last Thursday, at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts, three memorandums, dating from March and July 2016, revealed that the CervicalCheck management team, the leadership of the HSE, the acute hospitals division of the Department of Health and the Chief Medical Officer had all shared and...
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: When the Taoiseach said no and no, do I take it then that CervicalCheck, as an organisation, never met either him or the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, in four years? The Taoiseach might just clarify. That is the question I am asking. It would be normal for a significant screening programme to brief the Minister annually on the progress of the programme. The Taoiseach seems to be...
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----did not alert the Secretary General or the Minister or it was never discussed at a management meeting of the Department given the clear implications, as we now know, about the revelations of this kind of thing and the absence of non-disclosure.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: Not to the women.