Results 30,081-30,100 of 51,015 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: It needs teeth and resources. Task forces will not cut it any more. People have had enough and they want to go about their daily lives in business and their jobs without this threat, ongoing fear and intimidation. It has gone on for far too long. Will the Government give consideration to the establishment of such an agency?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: No, not a task force.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: In 2015, Deputy Brendan Smith produced legislation with others in this House to set up a statutory agency drawing from the Revenue Commissioners, the police and environmental organisations to deal with the corrosive impact of fuel laundering and cigarette smuggling, which has been felt in the Border region for so long. The Government at the time opposed the legislation but took elements of it...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2019)

Micheál Martin: I raise the issue of junior cycle history with the Minister, in particular, retaining it as a core compulsory subject. I speak with a degree of knowledge. In 1997 or 1998, prior to my becoming Minister for Education, an attempt was made to remove history as a compulsory subject. I vetoed it on that occasion and stopped it. I am not normally one for interfering and understand the National...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The British Prime Minister said today that he will be tabling proposals to the European Union shortly on alternatives to the backstop and dismissed the non-papers disclosed on RTÉ news last night as more or less redundant at this stage. The Taoiseach met the British Prime Minister twice recently, on 9 and 24 September, and has also had telephone contact with him. I met the Taoiseach...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach needs to be careful in welcoming everything Boris Johnson said this morning because he made it clear, saying "we will make a very good offer" blah, blah and so on, but he said there would be a difficulty in keeping Northern Ireland in the customs union because one of the basic things about being a country is having a single customs perimeter and a single customs union. While he...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: I thought he was going to say he started it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: In the media this morning, specifically the Irish Daily Mail, it is outlined that the number of active insurance claims against Dublin City Council has increased by approximately 820% in the past two years. I refer to claims following slips and trips. As the Taoiseach knows, such claims may relate to injuries due to potholes in footpaths and so on. The number of such claims is rising...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: -----for personal injury awards. Can the Taoiseach give an indication as to when the relevant section will be commenced?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Is it there, though?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Prime Minister Johnson; the issues that were discussed; and his plans to hold additional meetings and or engagements. [37403/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the Operation Yellowhammer paper with Prime Minister Johnson when they met or since 9 September 2019. [37688/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken with Prime Minister Johnson since he met him in the United States of America; and the issues that were discussed regarding Brexit; if a written proposal will come from the UK to the EU in the near future. [39892/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: In just over four weeks the latest deadline for Brexit will pass. Anyone paying even the most basic attention will agree that we have so far seen zero evidence that Prime Minister Johnson's Government in London is actually trying to reach a deal or that it is acting in good faith. Is the Taoiseach satisfied that the British Government is acting in good faith with regard to wanting to avoid...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: I asked a question about the choices. Is it a question of the customs issue versus no deal? Is that where we were at?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has dodged my question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has avoided my question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: I know, but the Taoiseach could have given a response - even a broad one - and maybe that tells me something too.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee at which education policy is discussed; and when it last met. [39893/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: Yesterday, it was announced that homelessness had reached a new record high and for the seventh straight month over 10,000 people were homeless. Even more shocking is the fact that 70 children became homeless last month. This has happened five years after the Government finally admitted that there is a housing crisis. It happened through the terms of four senior Cabinet members and...