Results 22,661-22,680 of 50,453 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: A defining feature of Fine Gael's management of the Department of Health has been major Supplementary Estimates announced late in the year. This has been going on for a number of years. After a series of years in which the Supplementary Estimates related only to additional measures announced during the year, we now see permanent use of them to fund core health services. This is not about...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: The national risk assessment has identified Brexit as the number one risk to the economy and it is one which is becoming more ominous by the day. During both Taoiseach's questions and European statements last week, the Taoiseach and his colleagues failed to answer any of the specific questions put to them by the Opposition about their strategy and the reason the June target the Taoiseach...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: No.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: No. The Taoiseach said it here last December.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: I put it to the Taoiseach that in the context of the programme for Government and media plurality, the really concerning aspect of his remarks in New York this week is that the Taoiseach is in sympathy with President Trump's view of the media. President Trump is probably one of the worst examples of a political leader who regularly demonises the media and media personalities. The Taoiseach...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach complains about there being too many journalists in Leinster House, and that they are interested in gossip. The former Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, would have been very interested to hear this because-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----he considered you quite notorious in feeding the rumour mill in Leinster House on an ongoing basis with journalists and the Taoiseach was not remiss in that regard. This is not the first time the Taoiseach has criticised the media. At the time of the setting up of the strategic communication unit the Taoiseach said-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----that more than 80% of the media's treatment of the Government was critical, that he had a problem about that and he wanted to rebalance it. Will the Taoiseach and the Government pursue proposals for greater media plurality and around the question of media ownership? Does the Taoiseach accept the need for regulation of social media in political debate, elections and referendums?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: Social media is not serious discussion, it is opinion polls.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: Not half as sensitive as the Taoiseach.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: Does the Taoiseach sympathise with President Trump?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: Today there are 6,000 adults homeless and 1,724 homeless families, with nearly 4,000 children. Since 2012 and 2013, various housing and homeless organisations predicted and warned about a growing crisis, but the then Government was in denial, stating the level of homelessness would not develop and that the issue would be resolved in a timely manner. We know how that worked out. The denial...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: The target for the rapid build scheme is the delivery of 1,500 units by 2018; 208 have been delivered to date. Some 6,000 NAMA units were identified for delivery, of which 2,000 have been delivered. Some 400 affordable homes were identified; the number is 0%.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: I could go on and on. What is the reason for the the lack of urgency and delivery in responding to the appalling homelessness being experienced by children? Does the Taoiseach accept that the homeless children referenced in the report of the Children's Right Alliance rare being failed by the Government in the quality of its response to date?
- Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is wrong in the backdrop he has suggested. The Taoiseach and the Government made many announcements of various schemes and the media were fair to them because they reported those announcements faithfully. Some 800 units were to be delivered under the repair and leasing scheme at the beginning of 2017 and zero have been delivered. Some 1,500 houses were to be built under the...
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: 134. To ask the Taoiseach if he contributed to the discussion at the June 2018 EU Council meeting regarding immigration. [29354/18]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: 135. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has received legal correspondence from a company (details supplied) on the strategic communications unit. [29041/18]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: 141. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has received legal correspondence from a company (details supplied) on the strategic communications unit. [29047/18]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: 142. To ask the Taoiseach when the staff of the strategic communications unit will be transferred. [29050/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (4 Jul 2018)
Micheál Martin: 164. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he and his officials have requested Brexit scenario plans from each Department and State agency since President Juncker's address to the Houses of the Oireachtas on 22 June 2018. [28673/18]