Results 15,741-15,760 of 50,683 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: I wish to protest in the strongest possible manner at the way in which Questions to the Taoiseach are being handled. There are 34 questions here, of which 18 are mine and they are not all related. Putting the 34 together is a far-too-clever attempt to bury some of the questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has bundled them together.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: This has been a tactic of the Taoiseach since the beginning. He said he would desist and for a while he did, but today he has come into the Chamber and has thrown-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am sorry, I have the floor now. The Taoiseach has given his answer and I am now going to ask questions based on those answers. The answers are very relevant to the point I am about to make. The first question I asked concerned dissident activity in Northern Ireland and the impact on the G8 summit. Question No. 5 asked the Taoiseach the way he commemorated the 15th anniversary of the Good...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: I do not think you are.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: If Sinn Féin members are on the Executive and the policing boards, they undermine the authority of the PSNI if they question its operational decisions on who to arrest or which crimes to pursue. That is fundamentally wrong and Sinn Féin does not enjoy that luxury.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Parties in government do not enjoy that right. Sinn Féin cannot have it every way all of the time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is accountable through the structures created under the Patten reforms. That is why people sit on the policing boards. There is accountability through the boards. Various communities and political parties, including Sinn Féin, have representatives on the policing boards. There is a line of accountability but, unfortunately, there is a grave danger that policing in the North will...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: It increases tensions, inflames opinion and undermines the authority of the PSNI. No institution is perfect but the PSNI represents one of the better transformations or new departures to have emanated from the Good Friday Agreement. The work done by Chris Patten and everybody else has been held up as a model for policing in conflict areas. All parties should be extremely careful that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am reliably informed that certain people were blushing on "Primetime."
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: I doubt it somehow.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Can the Taoiseach expand on his discussions with Prime Minister Cameron on the independent inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane? What was the British Government's response, is he genuinely pushing the matter and has he suggested any creative approach to breaking the logjam and implementing - this comes back to my point about marking the Good Friday Agreement and subsequent agreements -...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: I learned from last week.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: I referred to what the Government did to mark the event, not the Oireachtas.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: On a point of information, I asked what the Government did to mark the anniversary. The Taoiseach's answer is a lame excuse.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is a disgrace that these questions have been grouped together.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: The questions on the European Union should not have been included in the group.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: Following up on the Taoiseach's response about an independent inquiry into the murder of Mr. Finucane, my opinion and that of my party is that such an inquiry would be an important and clear commitment to a greater level of truth and transparency concerning what happened in the North. Until we have that, the healing process needed by this country will be delayed further. This matter is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----on the basis that there needs to be an international process before anyone can tell the truth, knowing full well that this will not happen. The charade continues.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (14 May 2013)
Micheál Martin: If those who independently know the truth are committed to it and to transparency, they should come forward, take the lead and share their information. This is the real challenge. The principle applies to the Head of the British Government-----