Results 50,281-50,300 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. As I said, the situation is barbaric. We urgently need to facilitate a high-profile visit by the international community to Gaza, including both political and media representatives, who could see at first hand the level of destruction and the appalling situation the civilian population there is now in. That would do more than anything to change the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: I agree with Deputy O'Donoghue and sympathise with his point. I will again talk to the Minister for Transport on this and ask him to engage with Bus Éireann to get this issue sorted. Chronological age is meaningless as a metric. It can be general but it is meaningless. There could be a very fit 75-year-old and an unfit 65-year-old. To borrow the phrase again, we need a little common...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is saying there is a general problem-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----and an insufficiency of general school places.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is very distressing for them and for their families. I will talk to the Minister in respect of this.

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is hard to find words sufficient for the topic before us. It is hard to describe the immense suffering, physical and psychological, that civilian Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have endured for more than 19 months: to never feel safe; to be uprooted time and time again; to feel the desperation that comes from not being able to find food for your children; to see your elderly parents and...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: On point of order, I did not say that.

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy is misleading the House. That is not right, now.

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order, the Deputy misled the House when she said that I described the tabling of Sinn Féin's legislation as "repulsive". I said no such thing. I would ask the Deputy to withdraw that given the seriousness of the debate. This is a very serious debate involving lives and it is not good enough that the Deputy would falsely make that assertion. I did not say that and she...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is very easy to check.

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy said that the Government is funding a genocide and I said that phrase was morally repugnant. At no stage did I say the tabling of legislation in respect of the Central Bank was repulsive. You know that. Why did you conflate the two to make a false statement? I would ask you to withdraw.

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: I ask you to withdraw.

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: It was a smear against me.

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: No sincerity.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Church-State Relations (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 and 3 together. There is a Structured Dialogue Process in place to facilitate engagement between government and those who lead our churches, faith communities and non-confessional bodies in line with Article 17 of the Treaty of Lisbon. Engagement under this Process may take the form of plenary or bilateral engagement between government and the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: I attended the funeral of His Holiness Pope Francis at St Peter’s Square on Saturday, 26 April as part of the Irish Delegation led by President Higgins. It was an honour to represent the Government and the people of Ireland at the funeral and to reflect on and appreciate the remarkable achievements of the life of Pope Francis. Pope Francis had a deep commitment to service. He was...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Consultations (21 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: A disability unit is being established in Department of the Taoiseach. The unit is supporting the work of the Cabinet Committee on Disability. It is also supporting the work of the Minister for Children, Disability, and Equality and other Ministers in driving cross-government, inter-agency and inter-disciplinary working and collaboration to improve the lives of people with disabilities and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: Is é an príomhrud, agus an rud is tábhachtaí, ná na leanaí a fuair na hobráidí seo, agus na tuismitheoirí go háirithe. Is é príomhaidhm an Rialtais ná tacaíocht agus cabhair a thabhairt do na teaghlaigh éagsúla. Tá mé an-bhuartha ar fad faoin méid atá á shoiléiriú ag an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: The immediate priority is the clinical follow-up and care of patients who have undergone this surgery. This represents a very fundamental and serious breach of trust. As I have said, there will have to be further investigations as to why this occurred and how it was allowed to occur. I have said the retrospective look back will have to be externally done, involving multidisciplinary teams...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 May 2025)

Micheál Martin: First of all, there has to be accountability. I would agree with the Deputy in that respect. Also, one would have thought that the era of an individual consultant being an independent republic was long gone. That is clearly not the case in the context of these reports and the one from which the Deputy has been quoting, which is the subject matter of The Sunday Times articles, if I am...