Results 51,181-51,200 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: So would I.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Sorry, but I do not understand the way the Deputy is dealing with it. It seems to be more about the campaign than the children. I hate saying that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am asking legitimate questions. There was no notification that anyone was coming. You do not just rock up to the Department of justice, ad hoc, and say "Minister, come down here". He might not even have been in the building.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: All of it suggests that something is not right, in my view. I am not saying anything was done wrong by the organisers but the whole thing seems haphazardly organised. That is all I can say.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: It is strange; that is all I can say.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: We are talking about children here. I think there should be a greater sense of organisation behind this and-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: We want to help.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Apologies. Tibet will be on the EU-China forum. We always raise issues with China. China always responds, by the way, robustly and never has any issue with the matter being raised. We do not get a satisfactory response from our perspective. On the Dalai Lama and so forth, I could not agree with the Deputy more.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 12 to 17, inclusive, together. Ireland enjoys a deep and strong relationship with Canada, a country with which we share many values. Increasingly, that relationship has an economic focus. In recent times, we have expanded our presence in Canada with consulates opened in Vancouver and Toronto in addition to our embassy in Ottawa. We also have a strong...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: I am amazed and somewhat shocked at the orientation and nature of the Opposition's presentations, particularly in terms of CETA. Someone said these are legitimate questions about the investor courts. The investor courts were dealt with through the European court judgment and will be dealt with in terms of the legislation. All trade agreements have to have a mediating facility and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----that we do not believe in free trade.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: You are saying it. Not one of you could say you will vote for CETA or will endorse CETA.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Yes, you are against it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: You are against something in the context of which trade from Ireland went up from €936 million in 2016 to €4.1 billion in 2024.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: How could you be against that?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Some of the Opposition purport to be in favour of workers. You could not care less about workers, Deputy Murphy. You could not care less about Irish workers. It is Irish workers who benefit from that level of exports. Indigenous companies and people working for multinationals also benefit. You just could not care less.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: You do not care about anything to do with the western hemisphere-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----and that is your position. This is a fundamental point that has been raised time and time again. Those opposite say they are against this and against that. They do not believe in an enterprise economy, they do not believe in free trade and they do not really believe in workers' opportunity to develop and grow within their employments under the model we have here. That is a very...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: Other issues were raised. To Deputy Ó Cearúil, we will embrace the strategic partnership. We have our position of military neutrality. I do not know whether it was Deputy Murphy or Deputy Coppinger who suggested our relationship with Canada was about militarisation, armaments and so on-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Jul 2025)
Micheál Martin: -----but it most certainly is not. Other EU member states are entitled to have their positions on defence.