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- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I am glad the Taoiseach will be-----
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Government has a habit of taking some Bills on Second Stage but then letting them linger forever.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The key point of the Bill is to put protections in place for those who hold mortgages that are being sold off by the IBRC.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: On Friday two non-Government Deputies will propose legislation, which will be rejected by Ministers in prepared speeches. The Government will add this week to the list of meetings of the Dáil and declare that in year three of the democratic revolution we are doing more work than ever. This debate is a transparent political sham. Nothing will change because of anything that is said...
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Government does not create jobs when it misses every single growth target it sets.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: With the greatest of respect, I did not interrupt any speaker in this House today - not one. The Deputy should allow some semblance of democracy. It is in short supply from him and from Members on that side of the House.
- Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The economy today is smaller than predicted in the first Fine Gael-Labour Party budget, by more than €5 billion. The Government has never introduced a measure to which it has attached a specific jobs target. In this context, claims to be delivering on jobs are clearly untrue. The Government is not creating jobs; businesses are creating jobs using the underlying strengths of the...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Political Reform (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: 142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on progress on political reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11039/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Political Reform (4 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: 300. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on progress on political reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11038/14]
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: This week the Dáil is discussing Government priorities and, clearly, one of these is the introduction of water charges in the final quarter of this year. Last month, the Taoiseach said in the House that the Government would produce a financial and business model that would enable people to know the amounts on the bills that would come in their doors. He modified that subsequently to...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Government has had a minimum of a year and a half to determine basic elements such as the level of the free allowance, the level of social affordability and the level of public subvention. The view is that it is deliberately withholding this model because it does not want people to know too much about it before the local elections. Deputy Healy raised this issue a month ago during...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: No one can understand why these three basic issues - the subvention, social affordability and the free allowance - have not been resolved. Over a year and a half, Irish Water has spent €180 million using an expensive transition team. It stretches credibility somewhat to suggest that the Government could not have come up with this model earlier. That is the delay, and the Taoiseach...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I have not said anything of the sort.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is costing €180 million to set that up and they do not know.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: We are waiting. When?
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: When will we have an opportunity to debate the Health (General Practitioner Medical Service) Bill, to allow free GP service for those under six years of age, even though it will be at the cost of discretionary medical cards for children over six? In the contract issued to GPs there is a gagging order, which will prevent them from advocacy, speaking out and articulating their views about the...
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: What about the gagging clause?
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: It is the Health (General Practitioner Medical Service) Bill.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Ceann Comhairle need not ask me about the second item.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The devil is in the detail.