Results 9,681-9,700 of 50,297 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Than yourself.
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he has, following the appointment of the Second Secretary to his Department, given instructions relating to amending his Department's role in European Affairs. [21083/11]
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will detail which members of Government carry authority to issue formal instructions to the Second Secretary in his Department; [21086/11]
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff that will be transferring to his Department from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. [21418/11]
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he still plans to half the size of his Department in view of the setting up of a new Office of the Tánaiste and the transfer of responsibility for EU coordination to his Department. [21419/11]
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the administrative changes which have been made to the coordination by him of EU policy within Government. [24705/11]
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach which, if any, funding and other programmes have been or will be transferred to his Department following his reorganisation of its work. [24710/11]
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline all costs relating to the establishment and future running of the Office of the Tánaiste including the numbers of personnel to be assigned to the Office, the physical and support facilities to be made available to the Tánaiste from the Vote of the Department of An Taoiseach and the identity of the accounting officer for the office. ...
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach the exact numbers of civil service personnel who will have been transferred to and from his Department as of the end of this year as a result of reorganisation. [24714/11]
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff working in his Department at the end of 2008, 2009, 2010 and the projected number for the end of 2011. [24715/11]
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff working in his Department who are on secondment from other Departments and the numbers of staff of his Department on secondment to other Departments. [24716/11]
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if any member of the staff of his Department reports primarily to another member of Government; and if so, if he will detail such cases. [24729/11]
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he will detail the specific process employed in receiving and considering applications for the posts of Secretaries General in his Department; and if he is satisfied with the process. [24732/11]
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: That is an awful lot of questions being taken together.
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Of this group of 13 questions, 12 are in my name. Under Standing Orders, if they were to be asked separately, I would be entitled to speak for approximately 72 minutes. Obviously, I do not expect this to happen.
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: There are approximately four areas covered by the 12 questions in my name: the Taoiseach's promise concerning the staffing of the Department of the Taoiseach, the new office of the Tánaiste, the new arrangements for co-ordinating EU policy and the procedures for filling the post of Secretary General. I want to be able to deal with each of these and have enough of time to do so.
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. You are in good form because of Sunday's developments.
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Actually, I am in very good form. Deputy Rabbitte has good experience of that kind of thing himself. The last time we discussed the structure and staffing of the Taoiseach's Department, the Taoiseach failed to inform the House that he would be moving an entire section from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade under his control. In the Taoiseach's pre-election speeches, in the Fine...
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should go back over his manifesto.
- Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)
Micheál Martin: Let us consider the facts that the Taoiseach has just read out. There were 191 staff at the end of 2010 and now there are 187. That is a change of four people. It is about time we had some straight, honest talking here. We should stop the waffle, fudge and spin. If the Taoiseach will not be straight or clear about something he has announced himself through the figures, then when will he...