Results 23,781-23,800 of 50,683 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: A strapline stating the content was produced in partnership with Project Ireland 2040 does not------
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: They were not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The interviewees were not told.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is only all Fine Gael politicians-------
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: They are facts.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has a responsibility in the spending of taxpayers' money. He cannot wash his hands of that responsibility.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: We should go for the next 15 minutes. We have to respond to that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: I think we should go for the full 15 minutes now-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----and leave the last question. Many issues were raised there.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Aspersions have been cast that have to be dealt with and I need to deal with them.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: In the first instance, I have never used any term such as "Goebbels" with regard to the Government's propaganda campaign. It is wrong for the Taoiseach to try to suggest by innuendo that I would endorse that or that I would in any way associate myself with it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: That I would not disassociate myself with it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: Will the Taoiseach let me reply? The Taoiseach's problem is that-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----he does not like it when hard words are said about things that he and his Government get up to. I am talking about legitimate questions that I have asked for the last three months on this issue. The Taoiseach does not like it and he then gets overly partisan and nasty. There is a bad streak there. Mr. Joe Flaherty, for example, is not a Member of this House. He is entitled to be a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: It is a very basic principle and tradition in this House. He is also entitled to be a candidate for a political party but Government money is not spent on him to promote him. Fianna Fáil will have to do that, as every other candidate in this country will have to do it. I have never used the term "Goebbels" and I hate anyone using Nazi terms about anyone in a current parliamentary...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----Herald. There were Fine Gael candidates in the Roscommon Herald. We can argue about other strategically placed advertorials about the Luas to Finglas. We may speculate about the electoral cliffhanger in that constituency between a Fine Gael Deputy and a Fianna Fáil candidate, Paul McAuliffe. The Taoiseach and I know, while he might pretend that he does not, how tight that race...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: -----that. There is an onus on the Government to make sure that taxpayers' money is spent properly. When it turns out that it has not been properly and procedurally spent, that should be acknowledged and it should be resolved that it does not happen again. I asked the Taoiseach if he would conduct a comprehensive independent review. The Standards in Public Office Commission, SIPO, will...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach came in here then to try to present a false picture just to get himself out of a political hole that he has dug for himself. I do not think that is honourable or the right course of action.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: There is no sign of that from us.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Communications (28 Feb 2018)
Micheál Martin: They are within narrow terms of reference.