Results 15,441-15,460 of 50,683 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: I do not. I did not create this row.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: I did not create this row and I am making a constructive contribution so that we can resolve the issue.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: The problem is that there is too much of a majority on the Government side and Government Members think they can do what they like with the fundamental institutions of the State. That is at the heart of the issue.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: I put it to the Taoiseach-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: Dearbhail McDonald summed it up well in the Irish Independent today when she wrote that "a demonised, demoralised judiciary at war-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----with the State is a sad, bad day for Irish democracy".
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: There is a range of other commentary. The Taoiseach is correct.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is correct that there are a wide range of issues involved here, not least the manner in which the Minister has given himself power under the Personal Insolvency Act to create a new cadre of judges from the Civil Service, for example. A limited number of people need only apply, up to 2014, namely County Registrars. As one Senior Counsel today said, this is-----
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----an enormous change to the system of nominating and appointing judges.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: The judges are saying that communications have broken down between the Government and the Judiciary.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: The pension changes, in terms of the length of service for superior judges, is an issue on which there was no consultation. The three referendums that are coming forward all have implications for judicial independence.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: The proposal for an over-arching commission to adjudicate, not just on judicial appointments but on all judicial issues, particularly in the aftermath of the recent referendum, was too arbitrarily dismissed by the Minister for Justice and Equality and the Government.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach confirm that he will intervene and create a reasonable forum where these issues can be thrashed out? I welcome the Taoiseach's comment to the effect that he acknowledges the importance of consultation on very fundamental issues of this kind.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is the first comment we have had from the Government today that points in a constructive direction. The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, tried earlier to reduce this to a populist argument to court popular support.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for his indulgence.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: That was before this Government got hold of it.
- Leaders’ Questions (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: SIPTU has rejected it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of his recent meeting with Cardinal Brady; the issues that were discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3944/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for the general reply to the question that I tabled. I have three brief items on which to follow through. First, on education and the discussions that took place between the Government and the churches, can the Taoiseach give a reassurance that no particular school will be forcibly divested of its religious ethos in the context of the Minister for Education and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Apr 2013)
Micheál Martin: It will not be enacted before July so.