Results 21,921-21,940 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (17 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: I am taking it.
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (17 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: I accept that. Originally I thought Questions Nos. 1 to 14, inclusive, were grouped together. The Taoiseach did not reply to the specifics of Question No. 6 on whether the implications of direct rule were discussed with the Prime Minister, Mrs. May, in the Taoiseach's recent meetings or conversations with her. He might address it in response to these questions. Did he discuss the...
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Preparations (17 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: On a number of recent occasions, I have asked the Taoiseach whether direct discussions have been held with the British Government concerning the possible imposition of direct rule in Northern Ireland, which was threatened as a possible no-deal scenario for the United Kingdom approached. At a time when two of the three strands of the Good Friday Agreement are suspended and the third is...
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Preparations (17 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: No, I am addressing no-deal preparations. The imposition of direct rule was threatened in the context of a no-deal scenario.
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Preparations (17 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: If the Deputy will allow me, I am entitled to ask questions.
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Preparations (17 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach explain what discussions he has held with the British on these matters? What does he intend to do to get the institutions of the agreement re-established? Two years after they collapsed because of a heating scheme, their absence has caused damage to the people of Ireland. I welcome very much what the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Ms Pelosi, said earlier...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is drip-feeding information.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: No one is opposed to it, it is about how it is done.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: One gets the sense the Taoiseach is managing this from a public opinion perspective and from a political perspective. By the way, two of the original bidders did not actually bid in the end; they gave outline indication. It was asserted all along it would be €500 million. Industry sources are saying the cost to build out the network is approximately €1.5 billion. The...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: We are taking all the risk.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: It is important for the record that there was a subsequent memorandum.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: For many years, parts of rural Ireland, businesses and homes have been without any broadband connectivity. Back in 2012 when the then Minister, Pat Rabbitte, announced the national broadband plan, he was very clear that there would be a minimum of 30 megabits per second for every remaining home and business in the country, no matter how rural or remote. Every year since, Ministers have...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: We do not need to start again.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: British-Irish Agreement (17 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the Good Friday Agreement, and in particular regarding strands 1 and 2 being suspended in their entirety; and if he has spoken with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on same recently. [17817/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: On the outpatient waiting lists, I understand that there are more than 100,000 people waiting over 18 months for an outpatient appointment. When the Taoiseach was the Minister for Health he had a target for this figure to be zero by June 2015. The figure has, however, gone up 800% since the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, came into office in 2016. Will the Taoiseach indicate why this...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: The drugs are approved. Are they not already clinically approved?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: The medicines are clinically approved by the respective bodies.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: I believe it is the same. This is the record of the House so I do not think the Taoiseach should make commentary like that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)
Micheál Martin: I do not think I would like it as part of the reason.