Results 14,401-14,420 of 50,453 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Vessels Decommissioning (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will investigate the concerns of a person (details supplied) in relation to a fishing vessel; if he appreciates the difficulties facing the person; if he will meet with the person to discuss their concerns; if he will clarify the way this person's concerns may be brought to a final resolution; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a company (details supplied) in County Cork which is accredited by the Irish Medicines Board as a pharmaceutical wholesaler and which has made a total of 14 submissions to the Health Service Executive in order to be awarded GMS codes for the 14 products it is trying to register, has not received any definitive response from the HSE regarding its...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health if he has had any contact with the Board of Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24, regarding the challenging budgetary situation at the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55595/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Patronage (11 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: To ask the Minister for Health the names of the hospitals in the greater Dublin area that are under the direct managerial control of the Health Service Executive; the managerial structures that are in place in other Dublin hospitals; the Dublin hospitals that are under the patronage of the Roman Catholic Church, Church of Ireland and any other Christian denomination; and if he will make a...

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: We learned this morning that the Government has agreed to legislate to facilitate banks in repossessing family homes. Yet, the 170,000 people in mortgage arrears and those whose homes are about to be repossessed will be still forced to pay the family home tax. The family home tax, or property tax, Bill was published yesterday and is being taken on Friday and rushed through the House, with a...

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: We are saying quite openly that now is the wrong time to put such a burden on people on whom the financial pressures are enormous. The situation has got much worse with regard to unemployment and so on. Does the Taoiseach agree the pressures now facing the categories of people I have outlined are such that they are not in a position to pay this tax that is being levied upon them?

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: In the past two years unemployment has gone up and mortgage arrears have gone up significantly while economic growth is down and the property market is dead. How can the Taoiseach or this House say to people who cannot pay their mortgage-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: If people cannot pay their mortgages, how can they pay a property tax on that house?

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: It defies any logic and goes against any concept of ability to pay. If somebody paid €25,000 or €30,000 in stamp duty in the past three, four or five years, they believe they have paid their property tax.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: So does the Commission on Taxation, which advised they should be exempt for seven years from any property tax that was brought in.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: More than €5 billion has been paid in stamp duty. How are we expecting unemployed people to pay this? The higher the value of some houses, the higher the mortgages. The issue is that, because of their financial circumstances, people are simply not in a position to pay.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: We are facing the incredible scenario where somebody whose house could be repossessed in the coming year-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: -----will also be asked to pay a property tax.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: There is no fairness in this tax. There is no attempt to allow for ability to pay or to provide for exemptions.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should read his own party's manifesto.

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: Read the manifesto, where a property tax is described as "unfair".

Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: We are back to me again.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: It is not agreed.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: I want to oppose the Order of Business because of our overall unhappiness and dissatisfaction with the way the business of the House has been ordered today and, in particular, the guillotining of the debate on the Social Welfare Bill, which is absolutely unacceptable. Yesterday I thought about 13 minutes would be provided for the discussion on each amendment, which is ridiculously low, and...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2012)

Micheál Martin: This is supposed to be the golden era of Dáil reform when the guillotining of debates on legislation was supposed to be a thing of the past, if we were to believe the Chief Whip. If the Taoiseach organised to get the Whips together, there is a way to address this. The Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill, which is to be taken in the House next week, could be deferred and in that way...