Results 49,441-49,460 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: There is the realpolitik of forming a government. Governments have to be formed.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Some people have no interest in forming a government. That is fair enough but others do. The programme for Government-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The programme for Government is the document that binds the people who are going to support the Government together. Underlying all of this, and the Deputy said we could have brought this to an end, I actually do not believe the Opposition wants to bring this to an end.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Opposition is enjoying it a bit for its own electoral purposes. However, I want to make this point-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy cannot be serious. He talks about it costing our democracy. Eight minutes on a Tuesday and our democracy is gone.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Come on; it is farcical. However, in a more serious vein-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: What is really behind this, and it is very clear, is that the Opposition-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: This was raised earlier. If you compare Dáil Éireann to any other parliament in Europe, you will find the Opposition has more time than any other Opposition in any other parliament across Europe. Certainly in terms of Prime Ministers across Europe, no Prime Minister is in parliament more than the Irish Taoiseach is in Dáil Éireann. This can be checked out and looked...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (25 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 11, inclusive, together. The National Emergency Coordination Group is the central Government platform established as part of the response to a threatened or ongoing national-level emergency under the strategic emergency management framework.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Ar dtús báire, ní aontaím in aon chor leis an Teachta. Is dóigh liom nach bhfuil sí ag insint na fírinne in aon chor sa mhéid a dúirt sí faoin Chief Whip. At the outset I wish to say that before this Dáil was convened, we were told - in no uncertain manner - that we faced a new era of total opposition. That was the Sinn Féin...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Since Dáil Éireann first met, its rules have changed hundreds of times. Many times these rules have been changed without agreement between all parties. We have regularly had votes on changes to parliamentary procedure. The concept of an Opposition veto is found nowhere in the democratic world.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: In this case, what we have is the profoundly antidemocratic demand that non-office holders be kept quiet if they support the Government.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Yesterday, a number of Opposition spokespeople claimed no other country in the world would do this. It is a sad commentary on their approach that they would use such inflated language to make provably false claims. A basic review of democratic parliaments around the world shows that Ireland may in fact be the only one which refuses to allow Government-supporting TDs to ask priority oral...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: To give just a few examples; in Germany all non-Ministers have access to oral questions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: The same is the case in France-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----Finland and the Netherlands.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: In Australia, the practice is Government MPs get to ask half of all questions to the Prime Minister. In Sweden, the Prime Minister answers oral questions on alternate months and all MPs can participate.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Micheál Martin: Deputy McDonald and Sinn Féin are not defending any democratic principle.