Results 49,221-49,240 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: They have.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: I will ask the Minister to brief the Deputy after the session on the progress that has been made.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: It has been significant, and so it should be.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy mentioned the Dublin riots. Again, we should always be conscious that we are not alone in this. I and four of my Ministers met with the British Prime Minister the week before last at the annual summit. Events that are happening now are triggered by how certain people behave, outside the House, obviously, in terms of provocateurs or whatever. I refer to people who are determined...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: The exact same thing happened in the United Kingdom, with, as the Deputy knows, a devastating impact on particular towns. We have to be very vigilant about that and we have to protect gardaí. One of the most important things that we are keen on doing is accessing legislation in terms of facial recognition and the use of modern technological techniques and capacity, which some of the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: I have been watching some of Sinn Féin's messaging on social media. It is almost a new style; a new approach. There was a beautiful one this morning about Eoin Ó Broin and his legislation on water and how Eoin had signed it. The Deputy opposite does it with a kind of "I wonder where that came from?" It was as if an executive order had been signed by Deputy Ó Broin in terms...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: However, we will get legislation done here through plenary methods, but we will engage.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: My understanding is that all the Whips agreed the Dáil calendar. I know we have these empty soundbites coming up that since November we have only met so many times. There was a government being formed since November as Deputy Tóibín knows well, but he just ignores it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: To be fair to him, he did not play a meaningful role in the formation of Government. I acknowledge that. He was an observer of what was going on.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: In the modern era, it takes a long time to form a government. It was actually much shorter this time than in 2020 when I think it took five or six months.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: This time it was much shorter and probably much shorter than most other European Union member states. By the way, I do not like having a prolonged timeline in terms of the formation of Government. Let us be honest with the public that many Deputies were in here in November, December and January trying to put a government together and trying to get the substance of a programme for Government...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: In response to Deputy Collins, private nursing homes are not covered by section 39. As he knows there is a separate financial mechanism. The National Treatment Purchase Fund is the mechanism through which private nursing homes get funded. I agree with him that it was a welcome development that the section 39 issue was resolved through the pay talks. Deputy Gibney raised the issue of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: Others in Europe have a separate perspective.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: Ireland's fundamental principles on the Middle East remain and have not changed or deviated in any shape or form.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: In terms of the Sacred Heart school-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: Sorry, I thought I could respond to-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: I believe the issue Deputy Murphy raised is resolved. The Department has been trying to engage with the school for quite a while since December. It referred the school to the financial support services unit in December. The Department was awaiting information. I think Deputy Lahart was proactively involved in trying to get the issue resolved. I hope we can get it finally and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: First of all, I condemn the horrendous atrocity over the last two days in terms of the bombing of innocent men, women and children. I have not briefed anything of the sort the Deputy suggested. Again, if she had consulted me, she might have got the truth, but she decides just to go for the propaganda. That is what it is about. In my remarks in the Oval Office, I very succinctly...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----on the Middle East, and it is on the record. For the life of me, I will never understand why Deputy McDonald did not go to Capitol Hill.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Micheál Martin: The reason I will never understand it is-----