Results 29,801-29,820 of 50,917 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Written Answers — Department of Health: Illicit Trade in Fuel and Tobacco Products (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 453. To ask the Minister for Health his views on high-sulphur coal being smuggled across the Border region; if he has spoken to other Ministers regarding same; if actions are being taken to prevent this smuggling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26489/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 608. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the Climate Action Plan 2019 which was launched on 17 June 2019. [26558/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ministerial Meetings (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 596. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he received correspondence from a company (details supplied); if he or his officials met the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26483/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ministerial Meetings (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 597. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he received correspondence from a company (details supplied); if he or his officials have met the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26484/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ministerial Meetings (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 603. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of times he or his officials met a group (details supplied) in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26494/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air and Water Pollution (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 598. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Minister of Health or officials from that Department have communicated with his Department on the impact of air pollutants on health and persons with particular respiratory diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26486/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bituminous Fuel Ban (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 599. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the legal threat on the smoky coal ban was received in his Department in May 2018; the actions he has taken since; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26487/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illicit Trade in Fuel and Tobacco Products (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 600. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on high-sulphur coal being smuggled across the Border region; if he has spoken to other Ministers regarding same; if actions are being taken to prevent this smuggling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26488/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bituminous Fuel Ban (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 601. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he cleared the smoky coal ban through the technical regulation information system, TRIS, process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26491/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bituminous Fuel Ban (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 602. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the detail of each part of the process of consultation and discussion with the EU on the smoky coal ban in chronological order; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26493/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bituminous Fuel Ban (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 604. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when it will be possible to introduce the smoky coal ban to the 73 towns that still do not have it in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26495/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Skills Shortages (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 614. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the driver skills shortage recently highlighted by an organisation (details supplied); the changes he will introduce to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26239/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry Register Ireland (25 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 754. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the requirements that builders from Northern Ireland must go through to register as builders here; if his attention has been drawn to delays or difficulties regarding same; if his attention has further been drawn to the number of builders already registered to build here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26482/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I return today to the national broadband plan and yesterday's submission by Carolan Lennon, the chief executive officer, CEO, of Eir, to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment. This is against the background of the documents released under a freedom of information request to TheJournal.ie, which reveal an almost cavalier approach to the ballooning...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I welcome the fact that the Government is at least going to look again at this. As the local elections are over, there might be a calmer climate in which to do that properly. The health service is at a standstill and while I suggest that €3 million or €4 million could have prevented today's strike, €3 billion was cavalierly announced for this project, which was much...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: I said averting the dispute.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should read what he said yesterday.

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (26 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: Fear agus carachtar faoi leith a bhí i Jackie Healy-Rae. Bhí clú agus cáil air ar fud na tíre agus polaiteoir den scoth ab ea é. Thuig sé go háiritihe an tábhacht a bhaineann le seirbhís poiblí. Tírghráthóir agus fear láidir ab ea é ach fós bhí sé i gcónaí cneasta, cairdiúil agus...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: In the context of the programme for Government and industrial relations in the health service, I wish to reflect on today's strike which represents the dysfunctionality of human resource management in the health service. Yesterday the Taoiseach said the Government had accepted the outcome of the job evaluation scheme and the recommendations made and was prepared to pay. The only issues...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: My sense is the union would settle for something higher than €1 million. I might be wrong, but my suggestion is that it would be in single digits. In the context of the massive overruns on a range of other projects, it would not have taken a whole lot to avert the strike. Three more days of strike action have been pencilled in for next week. There are, obviously, significant issues...