Results 17,661-17,680 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is unprecedented how you come in to protect certain situations. You made it clear to the Taoiseach that he dare not reply to a very fundamental question.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: If you would allow me to finish, I would finish, but you do not. I want a simple answer. It is on the record of this House since last Thursday that a whistleblower-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----was told by the Garda confidential recipient that the Minister for Justice and Equality will "go after you" if this material goes into the public domain. I can think of nothing more important-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am raising it, but you are trying to stop me raising it-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----and you are trying to stop the Taoiseach from answering it.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is a very simple question. Is the Taoiseach aware of it? Has the Taoiseach sought confirmation from the Minister? Is it because, and I do not want to cast any aspersions on the individual-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: No, because the whistleblower will say-----
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: The whistleblower will say he told him the truth, because the whistleblower will say that the Minister did come after him. That is what the whistleblower will say.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Oliver Connolly was correct. Oliver Connolly was close to the Minister, he was a good supporter of the Fine Gael party, as he is entitled to be, but he was appointed to a very sensitive office.
- Leaders' Questions (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: A core issue has been raised in respect of it in this House and there is silence from the Government benches and the Minister. I am entitled to ask the question. Is the Taoiseach satisfied with that in terms of public confidence in the institutions established relating to Garda oversight and in terms of facilitating whistleblowers to come to the table with material they want to talk about...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: The fundamental issue when it comes to referenda is that Taoiseach essentially tells us what the Government has decided in terms of what issues it will put before the people. The Oireachtas was presented with a fait accompli in respect of the last couple of referenda. The root of the problem, in terms of how referenda are held here, is that regardless of what anybody else wants or what the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Referendum Campaigns (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: That was the Taoiseach's Senators.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if the Economic Management Council has met since October. [2183/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when is the next meeting of the Economic Management Council. [2218/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach still satisfied with regard to the constitutional status of the economic management committee vis-à-vis its role within the Cabinet? He stated that the committee has met on ten occasions. The Ministers for Social Protection and Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputies Burton and Coveney, and others have on occasion articulated their concerns at being excluded from...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: In terms of the economic management committee making decisions, Ministers subsequently state that they know nothing about those decisions or that they do not agree with them. What happened in respect of Irish Water is the classic illustration of this.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: I was only born in 1960 so I do not really know what went on in the 1960s.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Deputy Adams certainly knows about the security committee.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: Has the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, reconciled herself with all of this?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (11 Feb 2014)
Micheál Martin: When?