Results 13,881-13,900 of 50,453 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: They are being cut.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: I did not go through all of the details.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: Yes. I have them here. We all do, including Deputy Buttimer.
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that the media play a critical role in our democracy, that a plurality of media is essential, that there must be diverse articulation of opinion across the board and that an over-concentration of media ownership in a democracy is potentially very harmful. Will the Taoiseach say when he expects the promised Consumer and Competition Bill to be published? Can...
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: Media mergers legislation?
- Order of Business (7 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should keep Joan onside; the Tánaiste has not done so.
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: White Paper on Defence (7 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans for a new White Paper on Defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48487/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Correspondence (7 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health if he has received representations from the Catholic Church in relation to possible legislation on abortion being introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44241/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (7 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department have seen or discussed the Dolphin report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45670/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Responsibilities (7 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health if he has signed the delegation order for the newly appointed Minister of State with special responsibility for primary care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45671/12]
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: I wish to remind the Tánaiste of the statement: "I, Ruairí Quinn, Education Spokesperson for the Labour Party hereby pledge that if elected, we will oppose and campaign against any new form of third level fees including student loans, graduate taxes and any further increase in the Student Contribution." Since then, we have had a shameless reneging on this promise to the students of...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: In addition, last June the Minister announced the implementation and operation of a central online system for the administration of student grants. That implementation has been disastrous under his watch. The system is failing abysmally, as third level students throughout Ireland are yet to receive decisions, let alone the grants themselves, on their applications. The Minister has...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste and the Minister, Deputy Quinn, shamelessly used the students of Ireland to help them get into power. Once they were in power, they discarded the students and broke every solemn pledge given to them. There is no point in the Minister nodding his head. He signed the pledge in ink. It was a scandalous, cynical election pledge that meant nothing. It meant nothing to him to...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----is also unacceptable. It demands a far more urgent and critical response from Government and the Minister. The thousands of students concerned are not interested in the chief executive officer coming into an Oireachtas committee next week to answer questions from Deputies which-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----of course is a classic attempt by the Minister to try to deflect attention from his responsibility to come to terms with this issue in an urgent way. Additional staff, over and above the number allocated, need to be appointed to ensure a far faster operation so that students are dealt with far more quickly than currently and that the doubt, anxiety, stress and the potential risk of...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----was told not to re-apply by registered post because there was no one at the office to sign for it. That is the level of what we are dealing with it.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: This one is.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: I am very serious.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: Last year, there was a significant raid on the pensions of workers in the private sector through the 0.6% pension levy to fund job creation, which has clearly failed in its application. Many pensioners are receiving letters from their trustees, saying pensions are being reduced because of the levy. In the context of the NewERA proposal, and particularly the National Pensions Reserve Fund...
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2012)
Micheál Martin: What about the recapitalisation of the bankers' pension fund?