Results 23,401-23,420 of 50,683 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: That was always going to happen.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: Who said that?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: I never used the word "reject". The Taoiseach just makes things up to suit his straw men all over the place.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: I have asked the Taoiseach on a number of occasions what he means by the term "meaningful progress". Could he give us some sense of what "meaningful progress" means? It is the Tánaiste who said more strongly than anybody here that if there was no progress by June - "substantial" is the word he used - then it would be questionable whether we would have any deal at all in October. He...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: I support Deputy Boyd Barrett on that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: Sometimes the Brexit questions get thrown-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: President Tusk has been a consistent and strong friend of Ireland since his time as Prime Minister of Poland. He has been an excellent President of the EU Council and I believe he has handled Brexit extremely well. As the final deals will be settled at summits, he will be central to what is finally agreed. In this context we need some clarity about the timing and nature of any final deal...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Media Mergers (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: That is the point.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Media Mergers (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: That was wrong.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the President of the European Council, Mr. Donald Tusk, since his speech on 18 April 2018 to the European Parliament on Brexit regarding the forthcoming assessment on the talks on transition in June 2018. [17972/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Media Mergers (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee at which communications and media mergers are discussed; and when it last met. [17973/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Media Mergers (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: On a point of order, the Taoiseach's reply does not pertain to Questions Nos. 1 to 4, inclusive.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Media Mergers (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: After many days of controversy, the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, finally got around to admitting he should not have spoken to a lobbyist for a media company, Independent News & Media, INM, about a media merger it was promoting. He still claims that he did nothing wrong but admits that he should not have done it and said he would...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Government created the issue.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: My question is in regard to the programme for Government and the ethics of public service and Government. I was very taken aback by the Taoiseach's response to my earlier question regarding the potential conflict of interest involved in the director general of the HSE being on the board of Evofem, a contraceptive manufacturer in the United States. Thomas Lynch, the chair of the Mater...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is simply not reconcilable that one can be the director general of the HSE and also serve on the board of a company whose chair is also the chair of an Irish hospital. I do not understand why the Taoiseach does not get that. The Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, made a grave error in facilitating Mr. O'Brien joining that board. I have no personal issue with Mr. O'Brien but the bottom...
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: I asked the Taoiseach the serious question of whether or not he agreed that the Minister for Health had made a serious error in facilitating and consenting in writing to the director general of the HSE serving on a board of a company and he studiously avoided dealing with it. I would like an answer from the Taoiseach, first, on whether he believes the Minister made the correct decision in...
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: Last night, the Minister for Health revealed that there were more than 1,500 additional cervical cases which had not been audited. This shocking and out-of-the-blue revelation confirms that the response to this crisis to date from the Minister and the Department of Health has been neither competent nor comprehensive. It is now two weeks since the Minister was told about the issue and nearly...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Summer Economic Statement (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance when the summer economic statement is planned. [19089/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (2 May 2018)
Micheál Martin: 183. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she and her predecessors have taken to address the concerns of members of an association (details supplied) about their pensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19231/18]