Results 9,181-9,200 of 50,297 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Northern Ireland Issues (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the arrangements he has made to distribute a formal review of the implementation of the Programme for Government. [17275/11]
- Northern Ireland Issues (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: I object again to the Taoiseach treating every Northern Ireland issue as related, as had been done by taking Questions Nos. 5 to 14, inclusive, together. This is a disappointing attitude which denies Deputies the opportunity to obtain real and specific information on the questions we have asked. I tabled five of the questions in the group. I welcome the progress made on the radiotherapy...
- Northern Ireland Issues (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: On the broader issue of contacts with the Northern Ireland Executive, we need evidence of a more active engagement with the North from across the Government. It is surprising that four months into the term of the new Government there has been no formal series of meetings between the Taoiseach and Northern leaders. I would have expected that to have happened at this stage. It is important...
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: Last week's meeting of the European Council was the latest in an increasingly lengthy series of crisis meetings. Its primary objective was again to find a way of containing the threat of a significant sovereign debt default by showing how the leaders are committed to comprehensive and credible action. As even the most basic look at the events and commentary since Friday suggests, this...
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: As the Taoiseach knows well, but refuses to admit because it would undermine one of his favourite attack lines, the interest rate on Ireland's support package was a fixed figure and not open to negotiation. In subsequent discussions, our partners agreed to reopen the issue. This culminated in the February agreement, formally ratified on 11 March, that our interest rate should be reduced in...
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: So the Taoiseach will publish it.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach publish it?
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Kenny is the Taoiseach. Will he publish it?
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am asking whether the Taoiseach will publish the text.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: So the Taoiseach is not going to publish it. The delay in the deal to take account of the stress tests was reasonable, but given the fact that the stress tests and subsequent Government banking announcement were indistinguishable from expectations and existing policy, the failure to conclude a deal in March is inexplicable. Beyond the fact that the Government has halved the value of what it...
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach agree to publish and make available to Members the text tabled by President Van Rompuy on 11 March on which the Taoiseach intervened which contained issues relating to CCTB?
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has an awful habit of meandering away from the specific question I asked which was simply if he would publish the text-----
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----of the document tabled by President Van Rompuy.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: He is conveniently using the corporation tax rate as a potential smokescreen. Every leader, Minister and Government previously objected to any move on corporation tax-----
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: This is a very important issue.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: It was agreed on 11 March by all the Heads of State.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: They all agreed there should be a change in the terms and a reduction of the interest rate. The only issue was timing. In the interests of transparency, the Taoiseach should share that text with every Member of the House and the general public so that people can objectively make up their own minds on whether corporation tax was threatened by the compromise text put forward by Van Rompuy....
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should allow me to ask the question. If the interest rate had been reduced without compromising the corporation tax rate, Ireland would benefit by hundreds of millions of euro. We cannot make up our minds if we have not seen the compromise text put forward by Van Rompuy to break the deadlock on 11 March. It is a simple request. The Taoiseach has lectured everyone on transparency.
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: He said this would be a more open Government which would do the "divil and all" in terms of transparency. Yet, I made a simple request - would he publish that text tabled by Van Rompuy - and he flatly refused. Does that not make a mockery of his commitment to transparency?
- European Council Meetings: Statements (29 Jun 2011)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach publish it?