Results 49,001-49,020 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I will come back on the situation on the CDNTs. That recruitment continues. On education, it should be acknowledged that there has been a huge increase in public expenditure, and rightly so, on special education. It now constitutes 25% of the overall education budget, or about €3 billion now. Money, however, does not mean a whole lot to people if they are waiting for school...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I will start by acknowledging the work the Deputy did when he was the Minister responsible for this area in the last Government for close to five years. I hope he acknowledges the commitment of the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael parties, with the Green Party, to the issue of childcare during the last Government when it dealt substantially with pay and conditions and money was allocated to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: The immediate issue is primarily the allocation of resources and also working through what we mean by public health model and how we integrate it with the school-based model for children from the age of four and a half or four years upwards. That is the big question. We then have to ask about the funding implications of that and identify how much would it cost and how we would plan, in...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I understand what Deputy Doherty is at here. Deputy Michael Lowry is an independent TD. He is not one of ours.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I will say one thing. Sinn Féin needs to reflect. A funeral happened this week. While I have great time for the victims and for wife and those who have lost a loved one, the truth is that Deputy Doherty's party called somebody who murdered five innocent people in a bar and injured 16 more and who was involved in the murder of a trainee garda and a member of the Defence Forces in...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: What Michael Lowry did-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----pales into insignificance in terms of what the members of your movement did. Please-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I would ask Deputies Doherty and McDonald-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----to ask members-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----of your movement what they did. Do not be so judgmental. I will not be getting involved in what the Moriarty tribunal.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: You have some nerve.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: Taoiseach, please.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: In terms of recruitment, everyone wants us to get more gardaí as quickly as we possibly can and to get them trained and out on the street in order to increase policing. That is the whole objective of people going into Templemore. On the precise arrangements involved, I will engage with the Minister for Justice and raise with him the issue the Deputy has raised.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I will ask the Minister for Justice to-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: My honest view is that vetting is important but that it is overstated.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: What does vetting actually mean?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is quite limited in what it actually does.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: There are backlogs everywhere.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: I have not been interrupting.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)
Micheál Martin: In terms of lay-offs, our thoughts have to be with the workers in the company or those who may be laid off - from our perspective, in Ireland - and we have to do everything we possibly can to make sure they can secure alternative employment. We have a strong industrial relations framework and strong employee protection rights in Ireland, along with legislation. We will do everything to...