Results 9,221-9,240 of 50,297 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Three weeks ago the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste held a press conference and issued a document mainly about implementing measures prepared by the last Government. It included almost none of the specific commitments the Taoiseach made in respect of the first 100 days in government, such as his personal diplomatic initiative or his ban on constituency work...
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: The 100 days lark was an election gimmick.
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: If one read what the Taoiseach announced during that press conference, it bore no relation to the incredible commitments he made to many people throughout the country on specific items, such as retaining all hospitals, his personal diplomatic initiative, which he has not embarked upon, and many other issues. Now the 100 days has passed, we will go back to an annual review. The Taoiseach...
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: The 100 days was the election gimmick. There are set procedures in terms of reviewing the programme for Government with every Minister and on informing the public about the degree to which commitments made in the programme are adhered to. Normally, that takes the course of a formal review. Who will conduct and be responsible for that formal review in the Taoiseach's Department?
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: Clearly, the Taoiseach is not a bit touchy about them.
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: We are familiar with his zeal to implement them.
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: I would like to return to one of the other issues covered in the programme for Government. Perhaps the Taoiseach will refer to it in passing. Has the Minister undertaken an internal assessment of the impact the implementation of the legislation providing for the burning of junior bondholders would have on the Irish credit union movement and individual credit unions throughout the country?...
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: There was a sense that the Taoiseach intended to tackle all the Ministers and haul them in.
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: There was a suggestion that there would be a clear benchmark.
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: He said that if these guys were not doing the business, he would deal with them. We have now been told it was a metaphor for something or other.
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: I am really intrigued by this. We will have to go back over every interview the Taoiseach did, for example on "The Late Late Show" and with Matt Cooper, to work out what he was really saying, what he really meant and whether we can believe it. I am afraid that seems to be the story. Did this good soundbite come from some focus group?
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: Was the Taoiseach told to keep talking about score cards-----
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: We heard about four or five point plans and all the rest of it.
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: The fists were in the air and people were saying: "Let's get Ireland working again." It was great stuff.
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: It was great theatre, but that is all it seems to have been in terms of the actual beef and what has emerged since.
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Buttimer should have stayed in Killarney.
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: Would it be possible to share that with us?
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: In good spirit, could the Minister share that information with the other Members of the House?
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: I was beginning to believe this transparency stuff.
- Programme for Government (5 Jul 2011)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach publish those?