Results 16,641-16,660 of 50,762 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not consult; he just tried to ram something through without any meaningful consultation and put forward an ill-informed proposal with no proper accompanying constitutional reform. The Taoiseach did not answer the question I put to him. Deputy Shane Ross's Bill is on the Order Paper. Is the Taoiseach prepared to join other parties in discussing that Bill and that...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: The people are saying loud and clear that they do not want any more tinkering around with the system or on reform. What they want is meaningful reform that enhances the independence of Parliament vis-à-vis the Government. The Taoiseach is correct that the people have said "No" to his proposal to abolish the Seanad. There is an immediate legislative template on the Order Paper, and it...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: If people want to consider other things after that, that is a matter for the political parties, but we have something definitive on the Order Paper. The people have rejected the Taoiseach's proposal-----
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: -----and I suggest to him that, by the way he is approaching things, he is still not getting it. He does not engage meaningfully on a level and fair-minded basis in terms of really listening to other proposals with a view to taking them on board. He just does not do that, and he has not done that in the two and a half years since he came into Government. That is why he was walloped. I...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is taking us back to 2000. It is 2013. He needs to answer the question he was asked, for God's sake.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: I did not say that.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: Let us press ahead with it
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: I will be waiting.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: We have given them to the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: Not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on the mortgage crisis last met. [39088/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: These are on mortgages. The Taoiseach is listening.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not say much. Did anyone else hear what he said?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has finished.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Patrick Honohan, has confirmed that 74,000 of the 98,000 mortgage holders in arrears of more than 90 days at the end of June were not yet in an arrangement. Targets have been missed all over the place. More worrying, of the 35,000 proposed resolutions offered by banks to the end of June, 62% referred to surrender or repossession of property. The...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: That is what has happened in 35,000 cases, however.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should not be playing politics with something that is fundamentally wrong in terms of how a local authority regulated. There were regulations in place.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach plays politics too often.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: What we need is an inquiry into the local authorities. That is where the real story lies.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (8 Oct 2013)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Economic Management Council last met. [39091/13]