Results 19,081-19,100 of 50,830 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: Some Deputies tend to ignore that in any contribution they make on this subject. A total of 4,200 people have been working in Apple in Cork city since 1981, in good-quality jobs-----
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: Small businesses get a lot from the multinational companies in Ireland in terms of bioscience, life sciences, instrumentation and service provision. A raft of industries have grown as a result of that multinational investment. It is a bit more complex and subtle than it is sometimes presented in this House, and we need to be careful. The OECD is an important body but it does not have...
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----for the G20 countries. That is because some of them are strapped for cash now. It is not our fault that the United States has the tax regime it decided to have-----
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----and it does its deals-----
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----with China and it will do its deals with Japan and with Asia, just as many other countries will do.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: We may have to reform, but should we do so on our own, oblivious to the actual realities of the global economic model, whether we like it or not? There is much I dislike about globalisation - wage rates across the world, the absence of any conformity with health and safety requirements and the lack of any adherence to consumer rights. Let us introduce a dose of realism to this debate. I...
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: He was completely out of order. Let us be under no illusion that all the Prime Minister wants is our jobs. He wants the 166,000 jobs that are in this country to go to the United Kingdom. He wants Apple in the United Kingdom.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: The anti-inversion laws in the United States are motivated by British moves in recent times, such as the patent box, which the Commission is also investigating. The British Government needs to look at its own house before it starts lecturing Ireland. I hope the Taoiseach will give that message to Mr. Cameron in no uncertain terms. I have no difficulty-----
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: I oppose Deputy Higgins's proposition.
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: I will allow this proposal on the basis that we have a comprehensive debate on the overall issue of the international tax regime, the global tax situation and our strategy in responding to the most recent OECD measures and the moves of the G20. We need to know the direction in which this matter is going and must adopt a cautious approach to it. The Commission has issued an opinion and there...
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: I have previously raised with the Taoiseach on the Order of Business the issue of extreme obesity and the lack of funding available for surgery for those who are at high risk in this regard. As he is aware, funding stopped halfway through the year. It has now emerged that, instead of funding operations in St. Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin and University Hospital Galway, the HSE is...
- Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)
Micheál Martin: The Government has had it for more than a year.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: I want to ask the Taoiseach a number of questions concerning the appointment of Mr. McNulty to the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Heather Humphreys. Yesterday, the Taoiseach's attempt in the Dáil to bring clarity to the matter did not succeed and has raised far more questions than answers. There has been a lack of...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach one question.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: I will quote what the Taoiseach said in his reply to me yesterday. He said: "During the course of the process of validating his eligibility, Mr. McNulty expressed a wish to serve on a cultural body because he was intending to serve, if elected, to the Cultural and Educational Panel." A second ago, the Taoiseach flatly contradicted what he said yesterday. He said then that he had no...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: In my opening remarks to the Taoiseach I did not ask about any other appointments. I only asked about Mr. McNulty's appointment to IMMA. It is the only question but the Taoiseach went down a diversionary route. This story is unravelling as it gets made up. One gets a terrible sense that people are trying to piece together and concoct a story that ends up blaming Fine Gael officials. Who...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: -----to appoint Mr. McNulty to the board. Fine Gael officials decided out of the blue to suggest to the Minister that he should be appointed. Apparently they were not mandated by anybody. It is a complete mystery. Correspondents asked the Taoiseach's spokesperson yesterday who asked the Fine Gael officials to tell the Minister to nominate Mr. McNulty. The reply from the Taoiseach's...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Perhaps if we had got it early on last week, there would be no need for any of this. Will the Taoiseach just return to the basic question: who asked the Fine Gael officials to ask the Minister to appoint Mr. McNulty to the board of IMMA?
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: Go back to it for what?
- Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2014)
Micheál Martin: But the Taoiseach told the officials he was the candidate.