Results 22,981-23,000 of 50,453 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Requests (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: The reason the Department of the Taoiseach was swamped with freedom of information requests about the strategic communications unit was that the information was withheld for quite some time. Media inquiries, Dáil questions and letters to senior officials failed to secure the necessary information. Considerable time and expense was required to obtain information which should have been...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Requests (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: Is the Taoiseach serious?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Requests (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach answer the question I asked? Who knew about the timing of the release of these documents?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Requests (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: Did the Taoiseach's adviser know?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Freedom of Information Requests (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: I know.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Agreements with Members (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he has specific deals or arrangements with Independent Deputies. [21487/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Agreements with Members (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if the deals being done with Independent Deputies or other Deputies are being updated; and if there have been additions or new commitments regarding same. [23441/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Agreements with Members (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: Government deals with Independent Deputies in return for support have been a feature of political life in Ireland for 36 years. The assignment of a small number of officials to facilitate such arrangements is a long-established practice. The refusal of this Government, however, not only to provide details of what exactly it has promised in return for support but also to clarify who is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is not happening.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: In fairness, the most recent lease of life given to the Fine Gael component in government was given by Sinn Féin when it strengthened the Fine Gael Party in Seanad Éireann in the recent election. That is a concrete demonstration of the underlying direction of the Sinn Féin Party in recent times as opposed to the rhetoric we might hear from time to time. In terms of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: May I make one final point?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Implementation (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Government has not been good enough in terms of Oireachtas reform. Will the Taoiseach take the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to one side and say we have all agreed that proper status should be given to the various entities that have been established such as the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Adviser and the Parliamentary Budget Office? We need high status individuals to...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: I want to return to the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. It deals specifically with the issue that has been revealed. It is important we would get an explanation and a statement at some stage as to why that Bill has been delayed. I understand there are policy issues that still have not been resolved, notwithstanding the fact the Bill has been published since 2016....
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----and requested by Members of the previous Dáil as well as this Dáil. We need to get a timeline for it.
- Leaders' Questions (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: One must feel for those people whose births were incorrectly registered or who were adopted illegally and have learned for the first time that their parents are not their birth parents on foot of the information which emerged yesterday about St. Patrick's Guild. The youngest person affected is 49 years old while the oldest is 72. The issues of incorrect registrations of children and of...
- Leaders' Questions (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: I am taken aback that the Taoiseach did not answer my very specific question about why there has been a delay in legislating for this matter. I did not want prepared soundbites or a prepared script. I asked for a specific answer. In 2010, the Adoption Authority of Ireland conducted an audit on this issue. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has commented negatively on...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the recent violence and killing of Palestinians on the Israeli border will be discussed by him at the next EU Council meeting in June 2018. [23796/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his or the attention of his officials has been drawn to the most recent report to the European Parliament Constitutional Affairs Committee on the implications of a hard Brexit and invoking Article XXIV of the GATT which could allow for keeping an open border. [23792/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Negotiations (30 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: 88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to his French counterpart recently regarding Brexit negotiations. [23794/18]
- Referendum of 25 May: Statements (29 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: The outcome of the referendum has been as clear and decisive as it could possibly have been. There is no doubt about what we must do. With an overwhelming majority, the people have given the Oireachtas the right and the duty to legislate quickly for a new approach, founded on the core principle of trusting women and their doctors. It is an historic change but not one which came about...