Results 23,181-23,200 of 51,305 for speaker:Micheál Martin

Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: Would the Taoiseach agree that the Seán O'Casey community centre should be included in the overall funding resources that the north-east inner city initiative has made available to other groups and companies? I would appreciate it if he looked into it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: It has been quite striking that the Government's response to the Charleton report has focused on the political domain-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: -----rather than on the shocking-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: -----campaign of slander against an Irish citizen by the head of our police force. The extraordinary conclusions reached in the Charleton report are quite shattering and go to the core of our justice system. If we are honest, none of us could have comprehended that such a thing could happen. The overwhelming majority of the report focuses on that matter and on the failures of our national...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: Most of the people who are baying at the Opposition today accepted last year that the resignation in question was regrettably necessary. The shambolic manner in which this was treated over four or five weeks is a textbook illustration of how things should not be done. That is why a group was formed to oversee the reform of the Department. At the time, the Taoiseach expressed enormous...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Development Initiatives (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the progress on the recommendations of the Dublin inner city forum. [37668/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Electoral Reform (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: And the United States.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Electoral Reform (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: There is big money there.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Electoral Reform (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: While the Government likes to talk the talk about being modern, its response to this issue has proceeded at a snail's pace. I appreciate the Taoiseach's comments on Deputy James Lawless who has taken a leading role on this overall issue. However, the interdepartmental report includes nothing which could not have been put together over a couple of days by any of the many researchers and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Electoral Reform (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the interdepartmental group on security of Ireland’s electoral process and disinformation co-ordinated by his Department; and if he will further report on the recent launch of the public consultation on the regulation of online political advertising. [40019/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Electoral Reform (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: 6. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to protect Ireland's democratic and electoral process in view of developments in other countries; and if this will require legislation or constitutional change. [41808/18]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: On 24 July last, the former Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment informed the House that the heads of a Bill for the national broadband plan were with the Government and that the Bill was progressing well. The purpose of the Bill is to provide certainty with regard to the conditions of access to existing infrastructure for State-led intervention on the national...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: That is why it was so inappropriate and so wrong for a Minister to meet a bidder in that context. The Taoiseach might answer the question as to whether the fact that the consortium changed dramatically at the eleventh hour in its composition could leave the bidding process open to legal action and challenge.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: The expansion of broadband has been carried out by commercial interests, which is fair enough, and has nothing to do with Government or State intervention at this stage. When the Taoiseach says the Minister of State, Deputy Breen, passed on the invitation, did he do it silently? Did he just pass it on?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: It is not a credible explanation, to be frank. We are talking about the last remaining bidder for an enormously costly contract. The Minister of State, Deputy Pat Breen, was asked to set up a meeting with the key Minister, the key decision-maker. This cannot be flippantly brushed aside as the Minister of State having passed on an invitation and - hey presto - the Minister having accepted it...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: I am very conscious that, for many years, the people in rural Ireland and in towns and regions across the country have been promised access to high-speed broadband on numerous occasions but there has been an absolute failure of delivery. I can go back to the 2011 general election when, at that stage, Fine Gael was promising broadband to 90% of homes and businesses by 2015. It is now 2018....

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ministerial Meetings (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: 116. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when he last met the head of the Defence Forces. [41071/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: State Visits (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: 119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his officials have received confirmation as to whether President Trump will visit Ireland in the near future. [41073/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Emigrant Support Services (16 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: 122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has contacted his Australian counterpart to discuss the recent statistics of over 600 Irish citizens being asked to leave Australia due to invalid visas and other reasons; his views on this information; if there is a campaign planned by the Irish Embassy in Australia to inform Irish citizens of their obligations in this regard; and...