Results 20,641-20,660 of 50,453 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: We need more schools, particularly special schools.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: What about the tertiary referral centre in Cork?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: I did not say that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is saying that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: Not on the specialist register.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: In fairness, asking the Taoiseach about IFAC-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy is not allowed to ask about it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: There was nothing wrong with many of the public housing estates built in the past.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: The Government needs to moderate its ideology.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: They know nothing about them as they never visit them. There were some great estates built and I know about them. I enjoyed my childhood in many of them.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: Could the Taoiseach explain why the Dunkettle interchange has not happened?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: The public were not allowed in.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times Cabinet committee B, social policy and public services, has met to date; and when it last met. [25195/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. In recent weeks, there have been quite a few stories about the impact of personnel shortages on key services. The failure to hire, and critically to retain, key people has led to a serious waste of public resources and is contributing to rising budgets. The most obvious example of this can be found in the health sector, where basic planning and cost...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: It is provocative.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: I agree with some of the previous comments about NESC and its various reports. The last Government to introduce a substantive free-travel scheme on public transport was, of course, a Fianna Fáil Government in the late 1960s, when Charles J. Haughey was Minister for Finance, for those in receipt of the old-age pension. It has a radical impact on the quality of life and utilisation of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: Of course, the resident university is thrilled with the profile and we are all happy campers. Meanwhile we cannot implement the smoky coal ban. Thirty years after Mary Harney introduced it in Dublin, it has still not reached places like Enniscorthy and the Government caves in to the fuel companies and says it will not implement a smoky coal ban-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: -----in the remaining 20%. When the children's hospital happens and when broadband happens, there is no roadshow. At one meeting, it was revealed that within a month the cost of that had increased by €300 million and no one bats an eyelid, just saying, "That's okay; just add €300 million to the €2.6 billion we agreed last August." If all else fails the Government will...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: It is a fantasy at the moment.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)
Micheál Martin: The Dunkettle interchange was agreed.