Results 39,481-39,500 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: I am correct insofar as it got to listen to it, but why RTÉ decided not to broadcast is a matter that needs explanation.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: I would suggest RTÉ.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: It is all ahead of us.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take questions Nos. 1 to 5, inclusive, together. My Department received the report of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, commission of investigation on the Siteserv transaction on 29 July 2022. I arranged for it to be published and laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas on 7 September 2022, following consultation with the Attorney General. The commission's...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: In the first instance, the commission of inquiry is in itself a form of holding people to account. The background in Ireland is that we have a written Constitution. People have legal rights and there is the presumption of innocence and so forth, which creates a legal context, which it seems to me makes all forms of inquiry very difficult. I make that general point. Deputy Bacik is more...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 6 to 16, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change oversees the implementation of the ambitious programme for Government commitments in respect of the environment and climate change. The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 sets out Ireland's key climate change commitments. It sets...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: In response to Deputy Bríd Smith, there is a dilemma here. In the first instance, the response to climate change must be global. It has to involve all the states insofar as that is possible. That includes Egypt and many other states whose political systems or systems of governance are obviously not what we would be happy with. Through the European Union, we consistently raise issues...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: I did not decide on its location.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: It has been decided; I am not going to change that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: The issue for us is whether we attend. That seems to be what the Deputy raised. We have to have a voice on the climate issue. We made significant contributions at COP26, as did the European Union. If anything, the European Union and United States led the charge on climate at COP26. Together with Japan and other countries, there is now potential that we can get better outcomes. I refer...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----and not just within Europe. We need to convert those outside of Europe as well and persuade them towards this agenda. Deputy Cullinane raised the issue of solar panels. The Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, announced good moves recently around planning around schools and houses and so on. Basically, we want to make it as fast as we possibly can in terms of the planning process....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: The point is that we will need offshore wind.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: The European Commission made a call on this as well, by the way. It is looking at a planning instrument to say the overriding public interest demands that we provide offshore wind.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: No. It is to track climate change. They are not-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: They are not choosing their own sites here.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: That is not what the Deputy said or what he was talking about.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: I assumed the Deputy was talking about the trade-off between how we designate marine protected areas and how we have offshore wind as well-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----and that is the point. The point is that there will be trade-offs. There will have to be compromises because the overall good will be served by offshore wind if we take out fossil fuels. That is to the benefit of biodiversity. It is to the benefit of climate. We have to make a call and make the hard decisions-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----and hard decisions will have to be made about this. We cannot start one week attacking the fossil fuel and energy companies one week, however, and the next week start attacking industrial offshore wind. The bottom line of the Deputy's agenda is that anything to do with industry or anyone who is about investment is bad. That seems to be the Deputy's position.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)
Micheál Martin: In terms of the-----