Results 50,061-50,080 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Regarding the legacy Act in general, if we could be, and if we in the Republic were, satisfied that there would be reciprocity in terms of information and so forth on both sides - people are seeking information from the Republic and the Government in the Republic in respect of a number of cases, including the Kingsmill case, and we co-operated on the Kingsmill inquiry, and we now have a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Let us discuss it. Maybe half of it does not suit and, therefore, there were no calls from the Opposition for a debate on Kenova. We do need totality on legacy if we can. I go back to the Eames Bradley report. There has never been a successful approach that enjoys everybody's participation-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----in respect of legacy. There are aspects of the legacy Act that we do not agree with and are seeking to change. There is ongoing engagement between the Northern Ireland Office and our Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The Cabinet sub-committee has discussed this and the prospects of whether we can get a joint approach in respect of legacy that would be endorsed by both...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Shared literature and poetry on the curriculum, North and South, is also something we should do. There are cross-Border benefits with taxation. Deputy Ó Murchú asked about this. The inter-sectoral ministerial meetings are dealing with those issues. The Minister for Finance, with his counterpart in the Northern Ireland Executive, have had discussions. Taxation is a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Ní aontaím leis an Teachta in aon chor. Níl an ceart aici. Tá níos mó déanta ag an Rialtas seo i dtaobh costas maireachtála agus an brú a ísliú agus a laghdú do chosmhuintir na hÉireann ná aon rialtas eile ar fud na hEorpa. Tá sé sin soiléir ón méid tacaíochta a thugamar sa...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I know the Deputy dismisses people on social welfare. She has just done so.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: To be fair to her party, it moves along the spectrum from time to time in terms of the political narrative. The point, of course, is that what I did say was that provision has been made across the board in terms of taxation measures, the social protection code-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and milestone and significant breakthrough initiatives. Every child going to school in this country now has free books.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: If the Deputy had said that to me three or four years ago, she would not have believed we would do it but we did. We have also significantly expanded the hot school meal programme. These are universal, long-lasting programmes that are now embedded in the public expenditure programme. I recall the Deputy in high dudgeon when we were doing the cost-of-living packages, saying they were...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Just because the Deputy says something does not mean it is true. What I said to her on the most recent occasion she raised this issue, when she said she had read the programme for Government, was that the whole agenda was to create a narrative and presentation that this new Government, which is just a few months old, is somehow-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Will the Deputy allow me to answer the question without the heckling and interrupting?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I know Sinn Féin's bona fides in climate change is exemplary. The presentation of the narrative by Deputy Bacik is to characterise the Government as being somehow not in favour of measures to address climate change. Nothing could be further from the truth. The bottom line in terms of the climate action plan and the agenda ahead of us is that we are fundamentally committed to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy knows that the emissions inventory report of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, from July 2024 shows a decrease of 6.8% in Ireland's greenhouse gas in 2023 compared with 2022, which itself saw a 1.9% reduction on the previous year. This is the lowest that our greenhouse gas emissions have been in three decades below the 1990 baseline. That is significant given that in that...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Children's Health Ireland, CHI, commissioned the audit. This is a very serious issue. It is of very serious concern to both the parents of children and to children who might now be teenagers. The audit is in respect of the period 2021 to 2023 and relates to developmental dysplasia. The decision by CHI to commission an audit was made in order to have an independent look at it and make sure...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, it is not your moment.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: The generic letter I have seen essentially states that it relates to a follow-up to surgery at Children's Health Ireland to correct developmental dysplasia and that an audit is under way. It also states, in terms of skeletal maturity-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Please, now. This is not about politics, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am not, now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: This is outrageous behaviour by you, now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2025)
Micheál Martin: Deputy O'Callaghan is entitled to an answer. It is not the Sinn Féin Deputies' question.