Results 18,001-18,020 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: We have not yet had an opportunity to speak on the Order of Business.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: We have not been called.
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (6 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: 16. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if progress is being made on commemorating 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7487/14]
- Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste knows, and we all know, that the Rehab organisation has been asked by the Committee of Public Accounts to appear before it and has been before the committee to answer important questions relating to salaries, pensions and a range of other issues pertaining to the organisation. For good reason we all agree that this is in the public interest, just as it is for other...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Tánaiste for his view that Mr. Flannery should go before the Committee of Public Accounts. I agree with him on that. I am somewhat curious that he did not respond to my question concerning the appropriateness or correctness of charitable organisations, Rehab in particular, that provide services for people with intellectual and physical disabilities, and which have large...
- Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: There is a principle involved.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: 2. To ask the Taoiseach his views on Government progress on political reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10480/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Minister of State for a very underwhelming reply to my question. I do not at all accept that what he has put before us is a radical series of Dáil reform or Oireachtas reform measures. The programme for Government stated that the people demanded change and looked to parties that would deliver the change they sought. The people are very disappointed at the lack of any...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I was coming to that. The Government accepted our Bill on the IBRC mortgage book being sold on because it felt it would be too unpopular to oppose it, but it will not do anything about it, particularly in advance of the sale of the mortgage book. We will not see the Committee Stage of that Bill for some time. That is the strategy. Friday sittings should be full-day sittings, involving...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: We actually did it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: Sorry-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: How many minutes has the Minister of State read?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is a huge revelation that he has checked all the minutes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: We have always had it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Minister of State said at the beginning of his reply to my question that he read the minutes of previous Cabinet meetings and that he saw no evidence of any reform initiatives. Would he accept that he would have been in breach of Cabinet confidentiality if he read the minutes of Cabinet meetings of previous Cabinets? I am very surprised to hear him say that because-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: He said the minutes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: As a Government Minister, I never had, nor did I seek, nor was I ever informed that I would have, access to either the agendas or the minutes of Governments that went before me or before the Governments in which I served. I found it extraordinary that the Minister of State made that assertion that he read previous Cabinet minutes. That is what he said. He said he had read the minutes of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I would suggest that even this is in breach of Cabinet confidentiality. There is a constitutional framework-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Political Reform (11 Mar 2014)
Micheál Martin: I think it is a very serious issue. There is a constitutional framework-----