Results 11,041-11,060 of 50,453 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: The DEIS schools have not been protected.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: Has the Taoiseach any idea of what is going on? The DEIS schools have been savaged.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: Nine teachers are gone from three DEIS schools in Deputy Coveney's constituency on the south side of Cork.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Government does not even know what it has done.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: If something has the word "disadvantage", the Government goes for it.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: It will happen to a savage extent. I have mentioned the loss of nine teachers.
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the staffing and operations of the Economic Management Council. [34387/11]
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will detail all meetings of the Economic Management Council which involved persons from outside of Government or the public service; and the persons involved. [37375/11]
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Economic Management Council met in 2011 and prior to Budget 2012. [39753/11]
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: There are questions down about the European issue for later. The Taoiseach said he would insist on the passing on of ECB interest rate reductions. It was, in fact, the programme for Government that made that commitment.
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: Yes, we have been on these questions for the past 15 minutes. A recent ISME report on credit made it clear the banks are not doing their job in lending to business. Regarding mortgage holders, it is high time the banks were told they have an obligation to the taxpayer, not just to their shareholders alone. The Bank of Ireland stance is arrogant and thumbing its nose at the Government and...
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: It is extraordinary that in that time no member of the Economic Management Council shouted, "Stop".
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: It suggests the workings of the Economic Management Council are seriously flawed if it allowed budget decisions through, one of which had to be immediately reversed because of its impact on people with disabilities.
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach would need to be careful with language and restrain himself. There has been no revolution in social protection.
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: The only revolution is that people are being savaged-----
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: Labour activation measures have been a feature of the social welfare system for the past two decades. It has never been the case that people just sign on. That has not been the case for many years. What has happened in this budget highlights the flaw in the economic management council. We were told it went through things line by line. The Taoiseach said it had 14 meetings. We know from...
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----that the Taoiseach and the members of the council were aware of all these cuts as far back as 9 September, yet no one seemed to see the unfairness of them-----
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----and the impact they would have. Given that the Ministers for Finance, Transport, Tourism and Sport, and Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and others-----
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle, I am trying to ask a question. I have never come across this interference-----
- Economic Management Council (13 Dec 2011)
Micheál Martin: -----and I have been in this House a long time.