Results 37,741-37,760 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)
Micheál Martin: If the Deputy wants my honest view, it is this: let us get on with it.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)
Micheál Martin: I am happy to engage with the school in regard to the processing of this. I am well aware of the situation. We want to do this as quickly as we possibly can.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)
Micheál Martin: I will pursue those two issues. I do not see why there cannot be flexibility in terms of school transport. Any child that is displaced and needs access to school should be provided for. In terms of the broad range of education and well-being supports, substantial resources have been made available in the past year to education to provide well-being supports and it should be within the...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)
Micheál Martin: We do not abandon anybody.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)
Micheál Martin: We have no interest in that and I think it is wrong to make that sort of personal comment about Government.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)
Micheál Martin: I have spoken to HSE again recently. There is a significant crisis across the health service because of the impact of this variant. It is creating huge pressures on hospitals because they have to isolate more and more patients, 50% of whom do not come in because of Covid but transpire to have Covid when they are in hospital. That necessitates isolation and other procedures which makes it...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy. It is an important issue and I will raise with the DAA the assertions the Deputy has made about having to be available 40 hours to do 20 hours. There clearly should be a more worker-friendly approach than that. I will follow up.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)
Micheál Martin: Le fada an lá, agus i rith na mblianta, táimid tar éis an-chuid tacaíochta a thabhairt d’Inis Mór agus do na hoileáin ar fud na tíre. Bheinn sásta déileáil le muintir an oileáin arís ó thaobh seirbhísí agus an méid atá ag teastáil. Beidh an Rialtas ag déanamh teagmhála leo.
- Government Response to Situation in Ukraine: Statements (30 Mar 2022)
Micheál Martin: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach. Is cúis bhróin agus díomá go bhfuilimid anseo inniu chun cogadh tubaisteach san Eoraip a phlé. Táimid go léir ag breathnú le huafás gach lá ar ghníomhartha foréigneacha na Rúise sa Úcráin. Seasann an Rialtas agus, tá mé cinnte, na...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. In the first instance, we as a society and a country have come through a once-in-a-century event in the pandemic, which in 2020 brought about the greatest recession since 1939. Thankfully, because of the Government's interventions to underpin the economy and support companies and the whole range of measures we brought in, the economy bounced back...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy's entire response is political and electoral and nothing more.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: Any increase in the carbon tax will be offset, so there will be no additional cost to people.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I said to the Deputy that we need an inclusive process here, involving and including climate change as well. Yesterday's report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, warned that it is now or never to avoid climate catastrophe. That is what the panel said. It warned that humanity has less than three years to halt the rise of planet-warming carbon emissions. The UN...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: It seems to me that it is the St. Augustine approach you are taking to climate change; "Oh Lord, make me chaste but not yet". That is your approach-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We can deal with-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: There will be legislation-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I did not attack the Deputy at all. Do not be playing the victim here. I attacked her party and her party's policy. That is what I did. The Deputy heard me very clearly.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: In the context of the carbon tax-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: I have made it very clear that we have already brought down, by about €9 and €12, what would have been the cost for petrol, diesel and so on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Apr 2022)
Micheál Martin: We will make sure that any increase in carbon tax will be offset, but we have to do much more than that. That is my point