Results 13,601-13,620 of 50,453 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach please answer my question?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: Why did not the Taoiseach telephone the leaders?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: I asked about the leaders in Question No. 19.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is fillibustering.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: Has the Taoiseach spoken to the Finnish Prime Minister?
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach state the number of commitments that have been followed through in legislation, particularly in respect of the overhaul of TLAC? Is it the case that the chairman and majority of members are drawn from outside the public sector? If not, when will this occur? Shall all appointments at principal officer level and above be open to external competition, and at least one...
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is No. 1, regarding the public sector reform commitments. It was committed that at least one third of such appointments would be reserved for candidates from outside traditional Civil Service structures for a five-year period. Has this been honoured? If not, what is the timeframe? Can the Taoiseach indicate when legislation to introduce social impact bonds will be brought before the...
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: What is the position on social impact bonds?
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is a clear commitment in the programme for Government. Your lack of knowledge of the programme for Government is startling. It is a clear commitment.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: You did not know about it.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: You had no notion.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: Gerrymandering in Dublin.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: It looks after Labour in Dublin.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is the biggest gerrymander I have seen in a long time.
- Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Government should make the amendments and get it sorted.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: Since the leaders of Europe last met they have yet again failed to show the urgency or vision required to tackle this unprecedented economic crisis. Having announced that they had made a "decisive" breakthrough, they then entered into three months of backtracking by some countries and inaction by others.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: What would be completely unacceptable would be to repeat what happened this year. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, came into this House without notice to announce a supposed breakthrough in regard to this year's repayment. All that actually happened was that a promissory note which could be restructured with little difficulty has been converted into normal sovereign debt. It took...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach about that earlier at Question Time but he did not reply to me.
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: The ECB would like the entire debt to be converted into normal sovereign debt but we should absolutely refuse to do this. After a year and a half of false dawns, non-existent technical papers - we have never been able to get a hold of that technical paper between the troika and the Taoiseach because it probably never existed - and distractions, it is time for the Taoiseach to actually...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency Expenditure (16 Oct 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the meeting that he has attended recently to discuss Ireland's forthcoming presidency of the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34338/12]