Results 23,361-23,380 of 50,683 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: They are not. That was in December 2015. We can keep announcing and passing laws in the Chamber and saying that we will do great things next month or the month after. When we pass such laws, however, they are not commenced and nothing changes. We need a satisfactory explanation as to why section 32(b) of that Act, which was designed to prevent the trauma people have experienced in taking...
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is not happening.
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: The authority is not required for the purposes of section 32(b).
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: The authority is not required for the purposes of section 32(b).
- Leaders' Questions (9 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: Further revelations are emerging in respect of the treatment of women whose smear tests by CervicalCheck - and their treatment at the hands of our health services and legal system - were wrong. We now know that three women at the centre of ten outstanding legal cases against the State relating to incorrect smear tests have died. The State Claims Agency was apparently told by CervicalCheck...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: The entirely correct focus of national priorities in the Brexit negotiations has been on protecting the progress obtained by the Good Friday Agreement. It is the basis for most of the direct leverage we are using, so the ongoing crisis in the institutions of the agreement would now appear to be at an emergency level. There is also the fact that no proposal for regulatory alignment appears...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----dialogue and it seems to me to be a point which has been missed. How do we achieve regulatory alignment if we do not have institutions, an Executive and an Assembly in the North to facilitate regulatory alignment in the context of Brexit? In this respect it seems surprising that the process in the North appears to be stuck in limbo, with no attempts being made to change the dynamic or...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if Prime Minister May outlined her views on a workable backstop when he last spoke with her. [19989/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Leuven speech was interesting in that its advance billing to the media as setting out some sort of vision about the future of the European Union was classic hype. It was a standard recitation of broad generalities and it is disappointing that the Taoiseach did not go into specifics about the major structural discussions currently under way within the Union. For example, it is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: That might be described as the graveyard shift. It is hardly an opportunity for substantive debate.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: There needs to be proper engagement on these structural reforms, which are serious and deep and which, we have argued for quite some time, are necessary for the future of Europe and in order that Ireland have a clear position on some of these issues. I know we have been asked to pass our ideas on to the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, but some structure should be established within the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Strategic Communications Unit (8 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: The primary reason this issue continues to be raised is that the Taoiseach has continued his policy of refusing to respond to on-topic questions and to deny the reality of serious lapses in what happened with this unit. I have now asked the Taoiseach four times to respond to direct questions about information released by the Secretary General and each time he has ignored the question and...
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: On the scoping inquiry, the Taoiseach might answer on whether it should report to a different Department. That is a separate matter, however, and I will come back to him on that. What is striking in terms of the reforms that have been announced is that the director general of the HSE announced his retirement date months ago. We now know that he will be leaving in eight weeks time. The...
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: It would.
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: To the Taoiseach's Department.
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is in the terms of reference.
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: Is there a timeframe?
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: The judgment then is to be without a director general.
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: The point is that arguably the system did have time to prepare and did not respond initially as it should have to the Vicky Phelan case. That is why we have had these panicked, rushed measures that have not been properly thought through. There are 7,000 women waiting for a callback. That is an appalling number. Proper thought did not go into what type of helpline should be established and...
- Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: In the bubble of Leinster House, we can go in one direction but we must listen to what victims say to us and we must be proportionate. The woman who contacted me asked us to be balanced and proportionate and, above all, to keep her needs as a victim as our number one priority in whatever we do.