Results 17,001-17,020 of 50,772 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is striking and defines the Government that the social policy committee met just twice in April and September in the key run-up period to the budget.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Economic Management Council met 11 times.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: In other words, we are witnessing the marginalisation of the social policy committee and dimension in the budgetary programme. It is very much a Fine Gael orthodoxy which is moving more to the right day by day. The extraordinary point is that the Labour Party is poodling along with this orientation. The Government has a right-wing approach. The Taoiseach may smile, but it is a fact.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I am astounded by this. If the social policy committee had met more often, the budget would not have been unfair to old people or disproportionately and dramatically unfair to single parents. The hit the latter group will take on tax credits is extraordinary and shows that there was no poverty-proofing by any social policy committee. The savings of €666 million to €1 billion...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The favourite tactic of the Taoiseach is to demonise his opponents and attack them because he does not have the substance of a decent response or the capacity to respond to the hard fact that he has just reduced young people’s income on the dole. Please, will he call it this and not anything else? Will he not dress it up as something to do with job activation when it patently has...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: This language is driving people mad. Does the Taoiseach understand this?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is not about confusion. Why can the Taoiseach just not say he took medical cards from people?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is very frustrating to have to listen to this day in, day out.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I listen to the Taoiseach all the time, but nothing comes out of him, only drivel.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Climate Change and Green Economy last met. [39243/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach's response sums it up. The Cabinet Committee on Climate Change and the Green Economy has met only once in 12 months. The last time this committee met was on 5 November 2012, over a year ago. In the meantime, we have had major work by the UN and the climate change panel and definitive conclusions in terms of human responsibility for a dramatically changing planet, with grave...
- Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: It is not agreed. While I do not propose to call a vote on this, I want to say to the Taoiseach that the Ombudsman has turned out to be a very important position in modern society, raising many issues with regard to the interaction between the citizen and the State, particularly in terms of health, welfare and so forth, and, likewise, the position of the Information Commissioner is very...
- Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach.
- Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I have two issues in regard to the programme for Government. First, on the subject of Northern Ireland and the full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and St. Andrews Agreement, it is important to acknowledge the excellently produced programme "The Disappeared" which was broadcast last night on RTE and BBC and which was an excellent example of public service broadcasting. It was a...
- Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: I will come to the legislation shortly. In terms of the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement, we amended the Constitution, particularly at Article 29.8, where a new section was introduced stating: "The State may exercise extra-territorial jurisdiction in accordance with the generally recognised principles of international law." In that context, I ask that every effort be made to...
- Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach update me in regard to the Government's proposals for legislation in this field and also on the level of co-operation between the Garda and the PSNI in regard to outstanding matters to do with the disappeared?
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Same-sex Marriage (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 104. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will respond to the Constitutional Convention's recommendations on equal access to civil marriage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46205/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reform family law to ensure equal status and protections for children being raised by lesbian or gay parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46206/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposed school at Bannow Road, Cabra West which is currently the subject of a planning application; if this is a primary or secondary school; the patronage of the school; the proposed cost of this school; if funding is currently available; the timeframe for this project; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Establishment (5 Nov 2013)
Micheál Martin: 701. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Irish Water will be subject to commercial rates; and if so what the expected liability to be paid in Dublin will be; if this will result in a reduction in the local Government charge for those local authorities receiving rates payments; the potential impact on households who are expected to pay the commercial cost of...