Results 12,361-12,380 of 50,453 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is not new. In fairness, Deputy Higgins has been very consistent.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: You were more secretive.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: When the Economic Management Council was established, the Taoiseach said it would ensure that projections for growth and other matters were fully accurate. He also talked about how items would be reviewed intensively. The Taoiseach placed great store on it. Since then, he has done everything but admit that the growth projections from December were wrong, almost from the moment they were...
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: In April last year the Government was predicting an unemployment rate of 10% in 2015; now it is predicting a rate of 11.7%. That is an increase of 1.7%. The Government is also predicting a reduction in real wage growth of -1.7%.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: On the debt to GDP ratio in 2015, a very serious measure, the Government was predicting last year that it would be 111%; now it is predicting it to be 117%. That is a very significant variation in one year.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: We were told that the Economic Management Council was established to provide accuracy in how things were measured in order to inform policy. How is the EMC managing this area? Is its failure with growth projections due to political decisions or, perhaps, to the lack of adequate technical support? I would appreciate if the Taoiseach would address this. I am running out of time so can I ask...
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: With regard to the membership of the EMC, there was a public dispute recently between the Government parties about who sits on the EMC and what its role is. Labour Party Ministers told journalists that the briefing which the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan, made against the Tánaiste some time ago was motivated by jealousy over not attending...
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach cannot do that. They are his projections.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: The growth projections?
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: That is less than the Government's revised projection.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: What about the employment projections?
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: Has the Taoiseach any comment on the net job creation figure?
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: I did not ask about the OECD figures. I am asking about the Government's projections.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Government has reduced by 40,000 the net increase in the number of jobs.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: They are not.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Government is predicting 40,000 fewer jobs than it was predicting five months ago.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: I have worked with Apple for a long time.
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: These are the Taoiseach's figures.
- Order of Business (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: I wish to raise with the Taoiseach issues relating to legislation under the portfolio of the Departments of Justice and Equality and Defence and under the latter in particular. A serious matter occurred in recent days when, at an event organised by the HSE and the Department of Defence at Custume Barracks, Athlone, an edict was sent from the office of the Minister for Defence, Deputy...
- Order of Business (22 May 2012)
Micheál Martin: Moreover, similar events have taken place at the Curragh. This is a serious issue and is unprecedented.