Results 20,061-20,080 of 50,453 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: We have had specific Ministers with responsibility for disability before.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reform (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: Is he effective?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: The Oireachtas has done-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: What about the electric vehicles?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: I seek the evidence base for the figures.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: I need to see that evidence base.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: If there is one.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: Come on. It cannot be back-of-the-envelope stuff.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: There is always an evidence base.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should not be so partisan in his comments. That was a planning issue.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if climate change is covered by Cabinet committees he attends. [43226/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: I thought that was covered by the previous question. That said, it gives me the opportunity to go back to the Taoiseach on the issue of electric vehicles. The Taoiseach is not facing up to the reality of the points that I and most people are making. No one is criticising ambition, but there is a responsibility to ground whatever proposals we are making in some framework of reality. No one...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: With regard to the cabinet committee dealing with infrastructure, the cost of many projects is now significantly ahead of what was stated when the current national development plan was prepared. For example, today's newspapers report that a review of water projects indicates that costs are running, on average, 15% ahead of what was previously stated. Some projects are below budget but the...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: Too late. Deputy Boyd Barrett should have kept his eye on the ball.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: First, I do not intend to query the Ceann Comhairle's ruling, or to undermine it, but I would have to say that I share considerable sympathy with what Deputy Boyd Barrett has said and with the fact that an entire Private Members' motion on a subject that has been a matter of debate here for quite some time is being ruled out. The case is that the Government has not treated the House with...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: That was never the intent of the money message. The Ceann Comhairle referenced the report of the reform committee. This has been going on for quite some time. I would have thought that would have been published a long time ago. I believe the best way to change Standing Orders is through the various parties working together to try to get consensus on Standing Orders, not by mere resolution...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: The money message has been abused. Of that, there is no doubt. The reason we are at this current impasse is because of the Government's abuse of the money message and the failure to bring forward earlier the recommendations from the reform commission.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: Since April there has been a moratorium.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2019)
Micheál Martin: Even after recruitment? Even after holding competitions?