Results 42,481-42,500 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: It is a sickening form of politics you engage in, Deputy Murphy. I find it abhorrent. A more sinister element behind it is to snuff out debate. You talk about freedom of speech and so on in Tunisia. You are nowhere near that - I am not suggesting that - but what you are trying to suggest is certain people cannot speak-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: -----because they have a view. That is what you are saying. They should not be allowed speak.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: If there are up to 50 or 60 speakers and if one or two have views that are contrary-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: -----to the views of Deputies Murphy or Boyd Barrett, then they should not speak. That is intolerance. You guys are no great advocates of freedom of speech at all, and I shudder to think of the day when you would ever be in authority, because, by God, would you put the jackboot on people who might have views different from yours. That is where you guys are coming from.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: It is not. It is where I stand.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: I will not withdraw anything. It is a democracy.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: Sorry-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: Okay.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: I am not withdrawing it. We are in a parliament. I believe fundamentally in the right of freedom of expression in this Parliament.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: I have witnessed the Deputies opposite make all sorts of comments about people.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: I am not going to. It is a bit rich for Deputy Murphy to be looking for-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: He is getting somewhat squeamish now.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: Through the Chair, yes.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: I am entitled to an opinion.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, through the Chair, you have just-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: You have just-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: You have just made an assertion-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: You have just made an assertion that certain people should not be on a platform.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: Ireland's policy of military neutrality has long been a very important strand of our foreign policy. It has been practised by successive Governments of which I have been a member. The policy means that Ireland does not participate in military alliances or common or mutual defence arrangements. The Government has no plans to alter this policy. That is not part of this conference. The...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Micheál Martin: I would like to test that. I do not think it is unparliamentary language. I think it is-----