Results 14,661-14,680 of 50,453 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister did not answer my central question.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: The first batch of tests was completed at the end of November and proved positive for contamination. A further set of tests was carried out in December which proved equally positive. Why was the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine not told in November or December that such tests were being carried out and the results were positive? That is the fundamental question. Does the...
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: We know that. The question is why the Minister was not told then.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is not the question I asked.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: Should the Minister not have been informed in November?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is a basic question.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Minister has not answered the question.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: We know that.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: We know what information the FSAI had in November and December.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: I want a straight answer to the question.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: Why can we not be given a straight answer?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: He did not answer the question.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is what the Government promised.
- Order of Business (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: No, it is not agreed. The motion before the House is incredible and represents an attempt by the Government, particularly the Labour Party, and Sinn Féin to suppress dissent and punish Members who voted against the cut to the respite care grant in the case of Deputy Keaveney in the Dáil. We are being asked to remove Deputy Keaveney from the Committee of Public Accounts, the...
- Order of Business (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: Likewise, Deputy Tóibín is being removed form the Oireachtas Committee on Investigations, Oversight and Petitions for his position on a motion relating to abortion. This is fundamentally wrong and illustrates that there is no intention on the Government side of reforming anything to do with this House or to change political behaviour or political actions.
- Order of Business (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Stagg was once a militant but you are now so far inside the tent, it is unbelievable and incomprehensible.
- Order of Business (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: I want to register my opposition to a Stalinist approach to the Parliament - remove anybody who articulates any dissent from any committee. It is a disgrace and it is wrong.
- Order of Business (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: He is chairman of the Labour Party.
- Order of Business (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: He was not silenced.
- Order of Business (17 Jan 2013)
Micheál Martin: It involves committees of this House.